How To Stop Your SPANIEL BITING

you're starting to have more and more problems with your spaniel because they will not stop biting is it a bit awkward to invite your friends over because you're worried of finding yourself in a position that you don't want to find yourself in because of biting well today let's see if we can help with that [Music] welcome back to the fenrir spaniel show my name's joe and i'm a certified canine leader here at fenrir k9leaders.com we are dedicated to helping you learn everything you could possibly want to know about the spaniel and then how to become a high-level canine leader so you can raise your very own so if you're new here don't forget to subscribe and turn on that notification bell so you never miss a future upload your spaniel biting can be a really serious problem so it's something that you want to get sorted as soon as possible so today we're going to be tuning into a webinar that will the canine behaviorist and founder of fenrir k9 leaders.com has recorded all about dogs that won't stop biting and then how to deal with that so if this is a problem you're having this is the perfect webinar for you so grab a notebook and a pen and start writing down some of the tips he talks about in this webinar so here we are with another quick breakdown webinar of what is by far and away the most common puppy behavior problem that as a canine behaviorist myself and i know that all other canine behaviorists in the world do receive requests for help with when it comes to puppies in particular and that is puppy biting puppy biting is incredibly common happens with every single puppy in the world but it doesn't stop it being incredibly frustrating and a lot of owners especially first time owners absolutely pull their hair out of that so what i want to do in this webinar is teach you either if you're wanting to get into this as a profession to give you the quick fire kind of overarching concepts of being able to help your clients and then if you're watching this as an owner and you want to become a higher level k9 owner and canine leader for your dog then we're going to give you the process that i would go through as a canine behaviourist helping my clients with these very very very common problem but it doesn't stop it being frustrating and i am going to help you get over it i promise now i know we just quickly touched on it but i really think it's important that we start here when it comes to puppy biting and that is being able to have patience with an owner especially if you're coming at this from a professional standpoint of understanding that even though if you've gone through this countless times like i have and it might seem like a very straightforward process for you and not a big deal it doesn't stop it being an incredibly big deal to an owner especially a first time owner so if you're watching this from an owner's perspective the flip side there is also true of make understand that from my perspective as a canine behaviorist that's gone through this process countless times with people that i understand that even though we have a very kind of play-by-play structure here to help you get over this and we know that it's extremely common doesn't mean that it's any less difficult for you as an owner and we're going to help you be able to overcome that and i hope that you can listen to that and understand first and foremost to be able to relax breathe and understand okay i'm not alone here i don't have an aggressive dog that i need to be concerned about my dog isn't going to grow up to be an absolute savage and i need to be worried this is very common this is frustrating and you're not the only one to be frustrated but there is things that we can do with a little bit of consistency patience and calm consistent leadership to be able to get past this now the first thing that we must do with any kind of puppy biting cases is we need to exercise our puppies more now i know especially in the world of large powerful breeds and this is kind of having a trickle-down effect to many of the even medium and smaller breeds that people are very overly concerned with how much exercise they give their dogs because of growing bones growing joints now i'm not a vet i don't claim to be and you should always listen to the advice of the vets and the professionals but in terms of don't what i like to say to my clients is listen to what they say follow their professional guidelines and advice but do not use your puppy growing as an excuse to not exercise them whatever is the maximum amount of exercise that you can helpfully give your puppy give it to them the more exercise you give them the better now i can't tell you to go against your vet's advice but i can tell you what i do personally is that i don't really follow any guidelines at all if i think my puppies need exercise then i let them have exercise i do truly believe that a puppy will slow themselves down and will stop now if you've got an extreme breed like some of them huge mastiffs or maybe a dachshund that has been bred in such a way that there is a significant issue with their growth and joints that we have to be very careful then that might be a different argument but i personally believe in giving as much exercise as possible to our puppies if they were out in the wild there'd be nobody interjecting and telling them to stop playing obviously those dogs that would be in the wild aren't necessarily these dogs like i say the mastiffs the dachshunds that have these common problems so i'm not saying to ignore you there i'm clearly saying that you should listen but you should give as much exercise as you feel comfortable giving your puppy if you do that biting will i promise will be much much less and much easier to manage and then much easier to teach them that it's not acceptable a puppy that is bored frustrated and has pent-up energy will mouth bite and chew everything that it can find if you can release that energy that will solve a huge portion of the problem now here at fenrir and if you've been watching any of our videos you will know that we believe that the number one priority when we have a dog or helping clients with dogs is about relationship you must become a calm consistent leader that has a dog that will look up to you for guidance and direction now as a canine behaviourist i do also specialise in what we classes deaf road dogs and they tend to be older dogs that are displaying very severe behaviors that are at the point where that dog is about to get put down and then i'll come in and put in an intervention strategy to be able to modify those behaviors and keep them from ending up in shelters or being put down when i'm working with those adult dogs we can go in and we can go straight into a full boot camp style process of being able to as quickly and as efficiently restructure that relationship now when it comes to puppy biting one of the common problems that you'll find whether you're helping your clients whether this is happening with you we need to address the problem as a good leader we don't ignore something like biting we address it doesn't mean i'm going to talk about the implications of how we go about addressing that later but we don't ever ignore it that's poor leadership we address it and we show our dogs how we do want them to behave now what people will do is that they'll listen to that they'll skip the exercise part they'll skip restructuring the relationship that i want to talk about now and they'll go straight to the modification plan and then they'll wonder why isn't it working as effectively and i'm utilizing this verbal correction my dog's ignoring it those things are a telltale sign that that dog does not respect you as a leader and you do not have a good relationship that relationship is broken if you are a good leader and we use the analogy of a mum with their puppies if you watch a mum with a litter of puppies the second it corrects a dog through a growl or grumble even just a change in body language they can get a whole litter of puppies to stop on a dime we should be able to do the same thing with our puppies and that includes puppy biting a mother dog would never allow that puppy to bite them to the point of it hurting them they would address it quickly efficiently and fairly and that puppy would listen the reason the puppy listens is because it respects the leadership of its mother we need to get to the same relationship with our puppies that it respects us as the leader and we'll listen when we tell it to stop doing things and then also we'll listen when we ask it to do it things that is the essence of being able to have a fantastic dog now when we've got young puppies that are biting we don't like to put them through a boot camp process because it can be quite intense there's lots of time around exercise that would be too much for a puppy the drills that we do there are too intense for a young puppy we haven't got the attention span yet so that's where we created our perfect puppy program what that is is a it's designed obviously from the day you bring your puppy home but if you're two weeks in you can still jump in and it not only gives you a structure of what you should be doing at what stage of your puppies uh developmental program all the way through that first year but there's also tons of information in there there'll be a link down below by the way of how you become a high-level canine leader how you're able to structure that relationship with your puppy so that when we want to address biting we can address it quickly efficiently with no issue whatsoever so the biggest thing i want to give you here in this webinar whether you're helping your clients or whether you're just trying to help yourself is do as much exercise as you can i promise you that'll help restructure the relationship if you can do that then what we're going to talk about now in terms of actually addressing puppy biting will become a thousand times easier to the point like it will blow your mind put the effort in here i promise focus on this bit i know you want me to get on to talking about how to address biting and we'll go into now but before i move on please heed my warning of going through this thousands of times that this bit will not be anywhere near as effective if you don't restructure and address the relationship if you've got an older dog three four five months you can look at doing a boot camp and abbreviating it and making it applicable for your puppy i've done it with puppies myself if you go back to when i had my conic or so when she was four months we put her through an abbreviated version of the boot camp process it was after christmas routine had fallen out a little bit and we wanted to go you know what let's get into it let's do a really structured discipline and we use the boot camp to help us do that to huge levels of success the puppy program also might be a fantastic way of being able to achieve the same results without that kind of um the discipline of something like a boot camp so they're down in the description box below if you need that help but basically it's just around the concept learn how to become a high level canine leader learn the principles of the basics of operant conditioning about being able to reward desired behaviors and correct undesirable ones if you can do that and you can restructure that relationship this next bit that we're going to talk about now i promise will be loads easier so now we move on to correcting the behavior like i say you've done the work you've done the hard bit now this bit now becomes the easy bit if you skip that this bit is really difficult but you've not done that you've listened to me so this bit is now going to be really easy to fix puppy biting we need 100 of implementation and consistency of rules boundaries and expectations so coming away from this video you are going to make a decision with you and everybody else in the household or you're going to be able to pass this message on to your clients that puppy biting is now from this moment 100 unacceptable and we are not going to ignore it because that's not what a good leader does we are going to address it and correct it every single time with 100 consistency now does that mean that the first time you do it it's gonna work no it's not the case with humans it certainly isn't the case with dogs that is why consistency is so important but what you're going to do is you're going to implement this 100 of the times that puppy biting is displayed now like i say if you've exercised more the biting won't happen as much but either way puppies are gonna bite there's no way that you can avoid it we just need to be able to address it address it and teach them what they should do instead so we go in with a correction the second your puppy bites you you're gonna go from fun happy playing lovely whatever it is that you were down on the floor where you're with them that they could actually bite you or nip you we're gonna go from that fun loving caring person that you want to be with your dog and we're gonna instantly go chest up shoulders back leadership body language and we're going to very quickly with impeccable timing every single time we're going to go in with a very stern verbal correction i personally like to use an at so bite goes on so hey good boy he's a good boy and the puppy goes to bite and i go for a musical boy to ah that switch happens instantly you go from fun loving will to leader will pack it in stop doing what you're doing right now and we're going to be able to and the more and this is why it's so important that you put the effort into that leadership if you have that relationship and your dog sees you as a leader you making that change will be more than enough and that will make them go whoa oh i'm sorry i'm sorry there's a little bit of fear there but that's good it's healthy the same way that that should be the case with your children that if it came to a point of your child running out into the road and you can't physically grab them and stop them you better hope that your child will listen to that stop now because they have that respect for your authority and leadership to stop them running out into a road and getting run over we need that same kind of respect and authority with our puppies we can be fun loving amazing cuddly cute i want you to have that relationship but you can't have that if you don't have the leadership relationship as well so we're going to go in with the correction that will be more than enough to get them to stop we're going to remove ourselves from the situation doesn't mean we have to get up and go away but if we're down on the floor and play in and then we've come up with a vocal inflection with the verbal correction that has removed ourselves from whatever the fun thing that we were doing with them was so we've gone in with that verbal correction we then redirect them to the desired behavior and here you have a few options you could put them into a sit and stay and you can show them that no if you want to be able to play with me you need to sit and wait and be quiet or what we like to do with biting especially with puppies because they are mouthing and they're teething yes it's frustrating for them yes they want to ease their gums it is easy to oh bless him he's just tv now let him off but that isn't acceptable that's not what good leaders do instead we're going to tell them no you don't bite people you don't nip people even if you're just doing it because your teeth are hurting that isn't acceptable however what is acceptable is you can do it on this thing that i've bought you this bone this rope this toy this chew so we're going to keep them around biting goes on with verbal correction chest up vocal inflection we go to leader very quickly make the dog understand very clearly we then redirect them to the desired behavior which can be utilizing some obedience work but it can most commonly bite and redirect them to a appropriate chew toy and when they're chewing on that appropriate chew toy we then reinforce good boy yes and we do that over and over and over again with 100 consistently you will very quickly get to a point where you have a puppy that doesn't chew or bite problem solved what i also want you to do very quickly on top of that is to be able to find times where your dog is chewing your puppy is chewing appropriate things and is biting and nipping the appropriate things in taur in terms of their toys and shoes then we're going to reinforce and praise that as well so we're not going to ignore those times we're going to let them know yes thank you this is what i want you to be doing good boy good girl yes then if they bite you or something that they shouldn't be biting verbal correction redirect to what we do want you to do reinforce that behavior instead undesirable behavior gets corrected with 100 efficiency and consistency does undesirable behavior comes down redirect to the desirable behavior and going out our way to reinforce when they're doing it anyway that desirable behavior comes up over time we get this and you'll have that perfect puppy that you've always wanted so i hope that helps go away implement it and i promise you you'll have a lot of success i hope that was really really useful for you that you're going to be able to start putting those training practices into practice with your spaniel i really hope you enjoyed today's video if so get involved in the comments down below as we would love to hear from you don't forget to subscribe and turn on that notification bell as we have two dedicated videos coming here every single week so i can't wait to speak to you on the next episode of the fenris spaniel show

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Length: 16min 42sec (1002 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 02 2020