My boyfriend and I got a puppy a month ago. We picked her up right before she turned six weeks. I wanted to wait a little while longer as I work for a pet store and I see similar issues to this sometimes with puppies taken away from mom and siblings too soon, but the mom didn't want anything to do with her and her 8 siblings and the people who had them were already giving them away before we picked her up.
She turns 10 weeks on Wednesday. She's a boxer/lab mix, but looks more like a boxer. She also likes to bite feet and hands with about as much strength as she can, which has resulted with me mainly having a lot of scratches and puncture marks, and she's drawn blood quite a few times now. She also bit down on my phone a couple days ago when she was sitting in my lap and put cracks in the tempered glass screen protector I have.
I know puppies teethe and she's still got those sharp puppy teeth for the time being, but I'm just trying to figure out what to do that'll help keep her from biting down so hard.
She has a multitude of toys ranging from stuffed animals with squeakers, a couple of teething Nylabones, some rubber toys, one including a puppy Kong, but she only goes after those if you're sitting somewhere where she can't get to you. If you're walking into the house or into the kitchen, she goes for the ankles, and if you're sitting on the couch, which she can climb up now, she'll go right for the hands or anywhere she can sink her teeth into.
I've used a sharp tone with her when she does something she's not supposed to, saying phrases such as, No, Bad, Stop, etc, and I use a much softer voice when referring to her any other time.
Any advice is helpful. I just want to limit this level of aggressive biting before her adult teeth come in because I know those could really do some damage.
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