Jumping up and biting-help!

[Happymm]

Right, had puppy for 5days. Coming up to 9wks old lab. She's lovely. Doing well in her crate at night 10.30-6.30, also goes in there in the day for rest. Eating better. Doing well(ish) with house training. Now she's a bit more sure of herself, when she's got her mad moment on she keeps jumping up and snapping/biting. Caught DS(5) on the face:( Have told them to stand up, tuck hands in and fold arms ignoring her, but she keeps on, or bites ankles instead. Help! DD (7) can cope but DS1and DS2(2) not, and getting frightened :(

Cheese sounds good. Also have bought some disgusting frankfurters. What did you first start training? We've not really started as have been focusing on potty training, crate training and settling in, but now need to start work!

Kingsroadie - I think some dogs probably grow out of it and some don't, so I wouldn't want to take the chance of leaving it be and ignoring. A friend of mine hoped her labradoodle would just grow out of it, and now she has a 2-year old still jumping up and biting - it's a huge problem!
happymm - I usually have some kibble in my pocket at all times - proved invaluable with mouthing!

Happymmm - all sorts of things first was off so she knew to get off things i.e. let go of toys so we could pick them up without getting tug of war every single time we tried to take the toy! then we did sit, stay, floor (lay down), down as in don't jump up, working on walking nicely on the lead but this is a challenge! Come here is another one, we started in the garden and ask her to come to each other and she gets rewarded she comes over, then another one for sit etc. We take her out and one of us walks ahead while the other stays put and we recall her from one to the other, we play hiding games and she is really quite good at this at the moment I hasten to add, once she feels more secure and doesn't need to be right with us it might change, however I can usually control her even if my daughter runs off to play in the park, I can recall Maggie to stay with me, or if she goes off chasing a bike or a person she usually comes back to come. One thing I didn't do was clicker BUT I do have a sqeeky toy that she loves, if I really can't get her attention with my voice I squeek the squeeker and she allways turns for that and comes back for cheese and toy!

Lots to do then! It is worse than a newborn :o

Bumping this in case of any more advice! Had a pretty manic evening with lots of nipping and some slightly harder ones... yelping and ignoring and walking away, but he seems to forget as soon as I come back. My daughter is starting to get a bit scared (by the pup and the yelping by me)!

With you on that one kings. DS (2) quite scared too. He ran away from her earlier. I shouted at him to stop, but the inevitable happened and she jumped at him and knocked him flying! She also managed to draw blood on my DD (7) earlier too! DS (5) tries to stay away from her!

Oh phew Happy. Don't want to revel in your struggles but I was starting to worry that we might have a particularly lunatic version! I think most pups would be like this with young children but I don't know enough to know...

My daughter has actually started freezing (out of fear I think rather than because I told her too - a tiny bit young to understand the concept although obv she does understand everything I say) but he doesn't stop until I go over and yelp or pick her up. Really hoping that he will start to calm down in a few weeks - perhaps being able to walk him in 10 days time will help!

I think that the smaller the DC the more they are fair game. DS plays a lot on the floor too, but the stair gate has helped so much in keeping them separated in the house. She only comes in the rest of the house once they're all in bed.

The problems outside really, as they all want to enjoy the outdoors!

And as usual, with you on the counting down to walkies! :o

Still needing help. She's bitten DS this am. :( Will giving her a bone to chew on help? Have ordered some stag bars too.

Happymmm - so sorry to hear this

Yes giving her a bone to chew on will help - those stag bars that Kings mentioned sound great!

My daughter does not like the puppy when she is excited - end of. She allways asks me if I have calmed the puppy down and can she have a cuddle with her yet .

I have to take complete control and make sure I play with the puppy one to one, when she has had enough energy burning activity during the day she sleeps the rest of it and is a joy in the house/garden. I have got into a routine with my pup that works and I am sure you will soon, especially when you can take her out - when is her second injection? Whilst I was waiting for my pup to go out, I would play with her in the morning before my daughter got up, by the time daughter was up puppy was calm and usually back in bed! I also play with her or walk her prior to daughter coming home from school or if I can't for some reason, when daughter comes home from school they say hello and get all excited with each other but then I separate them for a bit - let daughter watch a bit of TV on her own, get changed, have a snack and then we all go for a walk, she plays with the puppy on the walk but puppy doesn't get a chance to get nippy and bitey. Once back puppy just wants to crash and cuddle.

Injections next wk then it's another wk after that for walking.

I'd walked her round the garden, in the rain and she'd had a play, plus DD had done a bit of trainiing with her. She just seems to get so excited with my DS's for some reason. She jumps up at them, snapping away like a crocodile, even when supervised. They are getting so frightened now, that I think their body language gives that away, which probably doesn't help :(

I'm bumping myself in the hope that Minimu or Midori will take pity...