Can't Get Our Goldendoodle Puppy to Stop Biting Us!

[Heather]

Hi everyone!

About two and a half weeks ago, my husband and I got a sweet, adorable miniature goldendoodle named Rook. We had been teaching her bite inhibition by yelping and walking out of sight when she bites us, and she'd gotten a lot better - her bite was becoming softer, eventually almost nonexistent. Now at 10 weeks old, she's started again, and her jaw is much stronger than it was just 2 weeks ago - last night she actually bit my breast and broke the skin! Yelping and leaving the room no longer seems to have any effect - she'll look for us or whine, but once we return, she goes right back to biting us or our clothing.We've also tried redirecting the biting toward a toy, making a disapproving "tsk" noise, and making a claw shape with our hand and grasping the skin of her neck to simulate her mother's bite, but nothing seems to work. We love her to pieces, but the biting's getting really out of hand. Does anyone have any strategies they've found effective in getting your doodle not to bite? 

Thanks so much! 

[Kim/Mark and Sierra]

Sierra is still young and hasn't completely stopped but really doing well with it.  I followed advice from a great book called "The Monks of New Skete" One thing I do is hold her mouth gently with a little shake and say "no bite" sternly.  The other which I only do if she is very insisted on continuing, is letting a finger go to the back of her mouth while saying "no bite".  That one usually works.  The book then says to offer my hand back so she can lick it and then tell her what a good girl if she does lick.  If she bites again...repeat.  Now this has worked really well for me...but with other family members who don't want to do it she keeps at them...nipping and I have to step in usually by putting her in a time out in the puppy pen, if she won't listen to my "no bite" verbal command.  When she's let back out she's usually doesn't try again, for a while anyway.

[Elizabeth & Cosmo]

For Cosmo, we tried holding his mouth or snout and saying "No teeth!" as well as withdrawing our hands or ourselves whenever the biting happened. These things taught him what _not_ to do with human skin.

To teach him what _to_ do, I smeared butter on my fingers and offered them to him saying "Kisses!" When he licked the butter off, I would reward him with a treat or by saying "Good boy!"

Now, we can just use the "Kisses!" command by itself. For example, whenever he is around children, I remind him "Kisses!" so he won't nip their fingers.

[Kim/Mark and Sierra]

I really like this idea for teaching the "kisses"....thx!

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

I did the same with peanut butter after nipping stopped but she still lunged for treats in my hand and accidentally biting. I just say "gentle" whilemshenwas licking off the peanut butter and she takes the treat much more gingerly now when i say gentle.
We do kisses too, but that's more of a face washing kinda action! They are both big kissers.

[Kim & Rosie]

Did this ever get better. If so , shat did you do? We're having a terrible time, our girl is 14 weeks.