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Having a puppy is a fun experience, but that experience will sour if you dont give it proper training. For example, it may never grow out of its puppy habit of biting. People ask me from time to time how to get their puppy to stop biting, and I always tell them that this is a puppys natural behavior; young puppies like to bite and chew.

However, if your puppys biting tendencies get overboard, you should now probably think about how to get it to stop biting.

One technique to get a puppy to stop biting is by obedience training involving water. What you do is take a water sprayer, wait for your puppy to chew on something, and spray water on it. A nice, good spray, especially when caught off-guard, is a great way to get your puppy to stop biting.

This will only work if you are around the house a lot, and can be around your puppy enough to keep an eye on it, and punish it the moment it behaves badly. Also make sure that you catch the puppy in the act of biting before spraying it, otherwise it wont work, and the puppy wont understand the punishment.

Yelping is also a great technique to make your puppy stop biting. The yelp approach is effective for puppies that bite you or other people, not random objects. When your puppy is biting you, just yelp, instead of being angry or saying a firm NO at your puppy.

By yelping, you make your puppy think that they bit too hard, and they will stop biting. This makes use of dog mentality (dogs also bite when they are playful), its effective in keeping your dog from biting, and it doesnt confuse or intimidate your puppy because you dont get upset at it.

Orange peels are also a great way for you to stop your dog from biting items around your house. If you put some orange peel on whatever the dog is biting, it will make the dog stop and turn away from the object, since dogs generally dont like orange peels. After a while your puppy will stop biting these items even when no orange peel is present. You can also substitute white pepper for orange peel; both are effective.

Overall, however, just remember that biting in most puppies is just a passing stage of doghood; most puppies grow out of this stage, and it helps if you add in a little training to make sure it doesnt continue when your puppy gets older.

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