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Loading ...How do you make a puppy stop biting fingers/toes/any body part while playing?
My shiba inu puppy is 14 weeks old, and she loooves to play. For some reason, she likes to bite (not a hard bite) fingers / toes / arms / legs / my hair / clothes… pretty much anything.
I’ve read a lot of ideas online like – say “no bite!” and stop playing with her (she’ll just run after you and bite more), turn around and face the other way until she stops (this hurts too much!), give her a toy to play with instead (she will bite the toy and then go back to the fingers holding the toy), etc.
Let me know if you have any other suggestions!
she just started puppy training at petco last week! 
i’ll update if we find a good method. in the meantime, i’ll try everything people suggest here.
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well, the same way that her mother and her brothers and sisters would have; you will need to respond in a small and soft punch on her nose accommodate with the command “NO”.
after 10,000 times it will learn the allowed strength of bite.
http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/gl_wildlife/article/0,1785,HGTV_3651_1371239,00.html
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Grab her by the scruff of the neck (this doesn’t hurt– this is how her mother would carry her around normally) and say very firmly “NO”. If you don’t establish that YOU are the pack leader soon, she will nip you the rest of your days.
I recommend a good obedience course and Jean Donaldson’s training books (“Culture Clash”, “Dogs are from Neptune”).
http://www.sfspca.org/behavior/top10.shtml
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I don’t recommend any physical punishment even though it may not hurt that much because your dog will lose respect for you or even fear you (if he’s very sensitive).
This is what I did when my dog bit or mouthed me and it worked very well. The next time she puts her teeth on your skin, scream and retrack in painful expression on your face. Dogs are very visual (that’s why they respond better to sign language than to verbal commands.)
If she runs after you and bite more, then scream and pretend to cry until she stops. Dogs bites you because it’s fun for her and because she thinks it’s fun for you, too. But if she sees that you’re in distress when she bites, she’ll learn to stop doing it.
http://www.sfspca.org/behavior/top10.shtml
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