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Baxter Tiberius
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Well for now, Baxter is quite a well behaved little boy. His only two issues are the potty thing, and biting people really hard when he meets new people.
I know how to handle the former. The latter I am a bit confused about. I got a great email from Desertskybulldogs with good suggestions for yelping and pulling away each time he bites.
This is great logic and will teach him how sensitive human skin is.
Here's the problem: Strangers.
When anyone and everyone he meets, grabs his head, face, and shoves their fingers in his mouth while excitedly shaking him.
Then all bets are off.
All training goes right out the door.
Within minutes, he's a raving lunatic biting shaking, grabbing at everyone and everything. At this point children get hurt, because he bites them, and people who approached with "AWWWW!" walk away with a cut on their hand.
How do you stop the general public from encouraging behavior that you've painstakingly been trying to train him not to do?
I guess you can't. While at a restaurant in South Beach, 40+ people walk by and want to pet him. I can't do some speech lecturing them not to play with my puppy. For obvious reasons. And I cant repeat the same speech 40 times. LOL ...
I had one waiter at a restaurant literally shove his finger in Baxters mouth and let him chomp down on it for a prolonged period of time. I just stood there awkward, silent, going "Great" ... to myself.
Kevin
I know how to handle the former. The latter I am a bit confused about. I got a great email from Desertskybulldogs with good suggestions for yelping and pulling away each time he bites.
This is great logic and will teach him how sensitive human skin is.
Here's the problem: Strangers.
When anyone and everyone he meets, grabs his head, face, and shoves their fingers in his mouth while excitedly shaking him.
Then all bets are off.
All training goes right out the door.
Within minutes, he's a raving lunatic biting shaking, grabbing at everyone and everything. At this point children get hurt, because he bites them, and people who approached with "AWWWW!" walk away with a cut on their hand.
How do you stop the general public from encouraging behavior that you've painstakingly been trying to train him not to do?
I guess you can't. While at a restaurant in South Beach, 40+ people walk by and want to pet him. I can't do some speech lecturing them not to play with my puppy. For obvious reasons. And I cant repeat the same speech 40 times. LOL ...
I had one waiter at a restaurant literally shove his finger in Baxters mouth and let him chomp down on it for a prolonged period of time. I just stood there awkward, silent, going "Great" ... to myself.
Kevin