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For all of you out there dealing with shark puppies.
Great info - with handling techniques and teaching soft mouth.
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Permalink Reply by Cindy and Olive (Ollie) on
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Such a great resource for understanding and training! Thanks for posting :)
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Permalink Reply by Gracie, Jade, & Barkley on
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I wish I had this when Gracie was sharknado. ;-p
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Permalink Reply by Carol Fowler on
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Thank you! I My husband's ready to give my 18-week-old pup back to the breeder, he is so mouthy.
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Gracie was a little razor mouth. Somehow I've lucked out with Jade. Gracie is now an awesome dog! Lots of patience and perseverance!
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Permalink Reply by Amy and Annabelle on
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My husband was as well. There were a lot tears shed by me, because I really wanted it to work out. But my husband had zero patience with her puppy antics. More than once he said, this is your dog leave me out of it. He wanted me to send her packing back to the breeder. I wasn't going to give up. I looked like an abuse victim. I had no less than a dozen open bite marks on my hands and arms at any given time for about 2 months. I hired a private trainer to come to the house and that helped. But I think more than anything besides training, was just her growing up and out of it. Now at 1.5 years old she is a perfect angel and would never mouth anyone. She is also best buds with my husband.
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Awe. Yes. Growing really does help. Gracie is sort of still mouthy, but we just redirect her to something she can have her mouth on.
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That's nice when it works. It didn't with Annabelle. she wanted nothing to do with what I was trying to redirect her with, no matter what it was. I couldn't do anything without her attacking me. Putting her leash on her to take her out for potty breaks was like sticking my arm in a piranha tank. I am so glad she is a totally different dog now. The day I looked at my hands and arms and only had 3 bite marks on me, I cried tears of joy.
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Oh wow. Do you find that she likes to mouth you now - not in the puppy way, but softer? That's what Gracie does and she is a little over a year.
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At a year she was soft mouthing. Now at 1.5 years she doesn't even do that. The trainer for a puppy class we were in told me that by the time she is 2, she will be like a whole different dog and he was correct. Between the age of 14 weeks to 20 weeks she was showing aggressive behavior especially toward me and I was her main caretaker. That is when I hired a private trainer come to the house. It was more than just puppy nipping, she would also growl at me. I don't know how she got that way. It started about a month after we brought her home. It took several weeks of training to get that under control. It was during that time that my husband just wanted to cut our losses and give her back to the breeder.
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Come to think of it, I finally had had enough of Gracie's shenanigans at around 6 months. I took her to training and it was almost one-on-one as there was only one other dog there that was there due to its reactivity to other dogs.
My husband loved Gracie though and I was the one that thought about how nice it would be just to go back to before Gracie came.
Anyway, it's all good now. She has some fine tuning to do and I've heard the same about when they turn 2.
Jade is so opposite, she's like the dream dog that I had read about before. I don't know how I got so lucky with her. Or even why I decided to get another doodle. Lol -
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