# My Puppy Won't Stop Biting Me

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-puppy-wont-stop-biting-me/435109>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 26, 2008, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-puppy-wont-stop-biting-me/435109 "2008-01-26T17:27:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![SammieRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@SammieRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SammieRay)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-puppy-wont-stop-biting-me/435109/41 "2014-01-03T16:45:02Z")

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Thank you all SO much for the advice! In going through a lot of the information I was really drawn to what cowgirl said in their post. The description of the dog sounds very much like mine…we have started this process over the past few days and it seems to work most of the time! So I will see how it goes over the next couple of weeks!  
Thanks again everyone!

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**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-puppy-wont-stop-biting-me/435109/42 "2014-01-03T17:05:18Z")

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> [@Sailboat](#):
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> I hope this doesn’t come across wrong.
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> With respect to some of the dog-knowledgeable posters, I think there’s some misreading or mischaracterization of my “yelping” advice going on. My advice was to **yelp, stop playing immediately, get up, turn your back, and ignore the dog**. People keep repeating “Yelping didn’t work, what worked was ignoring” like that’s some kind of insight. The ignoring is the _key part_ of what I recommended, yelping is just stylistic. It doesn’t really matter much what noise you make, just make a noise to draw the dog’s attention to the moment of the bite, and then start ignoring.
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> I got that advice [here](http://www.pitbullforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=16101) and it worked wonderfully for my dog. Your dog may indeed be different, but this approach mimics the way most puppies learn, so it should work for a majority of doggies.
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> Sailboat

Yes, yes, and yes again.

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**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-puppy-wont-stop-biting-me/435109/43 "2014-01-03T17:53:29Z")

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That puppy’s pushing 7 years old now.

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**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2014, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-puppy-wont-stop-biting-me/435109/44 "2014-01-03T19:24:01Z")

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> [@lost4life](#):
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> That puppy’s pushing 7 years old now.

and the OP hasn’t posted in 7 years. I guess the puppy won. :eek:

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