My Puppy Is Too Hyper… Help!?
September 27, 2009 by admin
Filed under Care & Training Q&As
I have a 6 month old cockapoo puppy. She has potty trained well however that is about all. She bites me and runs around. It is impossible to catch her. I realize that she is just being a playful puppy but i need help.
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Puppies will be PUPPIES! Give her a lot of exercise and plenty of patience and training. Get in a puppy obedience class—it will do wonders for BOTH of you! Good luck!
Sounds like you both need an obedience class, she needs an outlet for all that excess energy and you need to learn to control her.
I have a Germand Shepherd that we got from a breeder and she used to bite us all the time. The breeder told me to take two fingers and smack her on the snout when she bites. With only using two fingers, you can’t hurt them, but it’s very uncomfortable to them to be hit on the end of their nose.
Just enjoy her, and as some other have said, by all means put her in obedience class, she’ll be a totally different dog if you stick with it.
As far as her being hyper, that’s just the type of dog that she is and the fact that she is a puppy. When she gets to be about 15 and barely wants to get up to go potty, you’ll be wishing that you had the hyper little baby again.
All puppies will be hyper to the point were it is somewhat scary. Some tips that helped when I was trying to figure out my hyperactive beagle, specially when she started the bad habit of nipping with her razor sharp baby teeth was:
They learn by reaction so if she nip make it sound like your injured and ignore her and when she settles down praise her and offer the back of your hand to lick and she will get the message eventually.
Or if it gets really bad you can buy this thing called sour apple and sort of cover your hand in it and whenever she bites she will get a very bitter surprise and slowly but surely the bitting will stop.
As puppies they need boundaries I kept my lil beagle in a small area and I would slowly expand her “living area” little by little when she she was calm, always praise at the exact moment she is doing something right. Warning though it will take time. Know her domain is the whole house
Also tons and tons of walks to tire her out.
Good luck
Get an object that you will continuously use to spank her, and every time shes ready to bite you, you spank her lightly and say no firmly, if she keeps doing it, spank her a little harder each time, shortly she’ll know not to bite because she’ll get spanked, and if she finally gets it and trys to bite again at a later time then have your spanking tool ready and show it to her and it’ll then remind her if she bites shes gonna get it, well good luck
um well if u cant handle that, you dont need a dog!
should like she might be boss and not u. seeking a trainer is the best idea. she needs to be corrected, else ur gonna have problems.
if a trainer is out for u then get a behavior training book, cesars way is a very good one.
Not enough exercise, not enough stimulation.
Walk your dog. As often and as as far as possible. People with fenced yards tend to think their dog will get adequate excersise running around the yard…not so.
Twice daily 20 minute walks and still include play time at home like fetch, will tire the dog out. Training a tired dog is easiest, so do short training sessions after walk time.