Understandably, the number one concern of puppy owners is what to do about puppy mouthy-ness since canine aggression is every owners number one fear. However, DO NOT TEACH YOUR PUPPY NOT TO BITE. RUN, dont walk from such advice. Do not fall into this trap and have this fear become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
First of all, nine out of ten dogs, no matter how they are raised and trained (outside of outright abuse), will grow up and not be biters. And then on the other hand, one out of ten will grow up to bite because their nature has not been honored, and so they therefore do not trust human beings. They become aggressive either because of how they were raised and/or trained, or even more likely, because they have been overly stimulated during their formative months.
I have raised a number of German shepherds imported from Germany that over many generations were selectively bred to be police and sheep herding dogs by the most accomplished breeders in the world. They were prized for being biting machines because this fundamental impulse in the right hands can be channeled into any number of working expressions. Yet, despite raising puppies of such prodigious emotional horsepower, Ive never had to teach a single one of my puppies not to bite, not to jump, not to counter surf and so on because Ive raised them naturally. I have raised them gently, lovingly, calmly, but more importantly, slowly. For the first year of their life I did not over-stimulate them by putting them in unnatural settings and then demanding they behave a certain way. Just like I didnt put my children in a candy store and demand they honor the food pyramid.
For example, I did not come home and greet my dog upon my return. Dogs dont have a sense of time, therefore they do not need to acknowledge the comings and goings of other beings. One moment youre here, and then another moment youre here again. No big deal unless we have a need to make it one. When I came home I immediately let my puppy outside as indeed my arrival had excited him, and then only after hes taken in his surroundings and calmed himself naturally by virtue of being in the emotionally conductive setting of the outdoors, do I pet and coo to him in a soothing tone. He doesnt get excited and so he doesnt jump on me or bite my fingers or pant legs because he was given a chance to get it out of his system naturally and without causing me any annoyance or pain. He looked around the yard and found a stick or leaf to make prey on. I allowed him the time and space to learn how to calm himself. I didnt allow my arrival to knock him out of his nature.
In the same vein, when my children came home from school and of course were all excited to see our new puppy (that is still in its crate and beginning to whine in frustration), I asked them to change their clothes, get something to eat if theyre hungry, use the bathroom and only when were all ready to go outside, do I open the crate so that the puppy immediately shoots out the back door. Then we all catch up and proceed to the wide open space of the backyard. There, we stand around quietly as the pup again naturally calms himself. The puppy doesnt jump up or grab at their clothes because when he feels like moving, he has plenty of space to do so and if he feels like biting something, there are plenty of sticks and leaves to choose from. I taught my children to move slowly and not make any kind of fuss until the puppy was settled down, at which point he can be touched, petted and lavished with love and in such a setting he wont get himself twisted into an emotional knot of frustration.
Because he has calmed himself naturally he can actually feel the childrens touch as something pleasurable, and he innately disciplines himself to be still so that he can induce them to keep on petting and maximizing his pleasure. As he matures over the coming months, it becomes easy for him to run alongside the kids as they play and he has no temptation to do any of the things my clients are constantly hiring me to help them solve. It is because even under this level of excitement, the puppy can still feel the kids. If the puppy gets too rowdy, since that doesnt feel good to my kids, it doesnt feel good for him either as well.
Why would I allow my children or their friends to run around screaming in the presence of a puppy? I wouldnt allow them to tease a cat, to run around in a paddock or through a stable of horses or around cows in a field. Why cant children learn to honor the nature of a puppy just as we insist they learn to honor the nature of all other animals?
With these practical points in mind, lets talk about biting from a wider perspective. Puppies use their teeth and jaws to explore and apprehend the world around them, just as children use their fingers and hands to explore their surroundings. Furthermore, dogs are the most social animal on earth. They do not have to be taught to be social any more than children have to be taught how to imagine. The entire scope of a dogs social development is a function of learning how, when, where, why and what to bite and dogs dont learn any of these lessons by learning not to bite. Dogs dont learn to be social as a function of learning what not to bite. I never taught my children not to rob banks or not to hit people over the head and take their money when they are broke. They learned naturally that money is something to be earned or politely asked for, and thats the only way they expect to get the money they want.
In the dogs mind, the use of its mouth is synonymous with wanting something. Even when they dont actually grab something in their jaws, they nonetheless feel the energetic essence of whatever theyre attracted to just as if its in their jaws. (As in: I want it so bad I can taste it.) Therefore, whenever a puppy gets excited for whatever reason, like kids coming home from school or the owner coming through the door, its instinctual computer commands BITE something. This is how every behavioral system and neurological circuit is constructed in their body and brain. Whatever else may happen to the dog after the fact (such as an owners correction) doesnt register on the deepest plane of canine consciousness. What matters most to a puppy is that it heard an internally generated command to bite whatever it was that got it all excited. This command is millions of years old and there is no human reason that can neutralize it, such as I am your pack leaderYou are a bad dog and so on. However, what allows a dog to resist an instinctual impulse to bite, and fortunately is an even stronger energy that arises from an even deeper aspect of its nature, is a feeling. So if a dog is raised and trained in regards to what and how it feels, then it will be able to go by feel in a critical moment rather than by instinct. The number one mistake puppy owners are making is overly stimulating their puppy, usually by showering it with attention as a measure of their love, and then when they dont like the instincts this triggers, they then set out to teach it how to be social by correcting these instincts. This short circuit then becomes the basis of how the personality of the puppy then develops. Nine out of ten times it wont become an aggressive behavior, but you can clearly see it via that look in its eye.
Remember, a dog is not a person. Dogs are creatures of the immediate moment. They have no idea that youve been away all day and are now coming home from a long time at work. They have no idea that you are a person that needs to be acknowledged. We as people project this need onto them. Dogs dont need to be acknowledged. Dogs just are. Now you are here and now here you are again, as always. Thats it. The calmer they feel as you come and go, the more they feel connected to you.
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