10 week old puppy attacking legs

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So, we have a 10 week old puppy, he's my 5th dog of this breed but my first boy. I know he's only tiny and almost certainly playing but he keeps attacking our legs and distraction with a chew toy or a sharp (but not too sharp) 'No' isn't working. He's really going for it and it hurts. I am nervous that he will do this to my 10 year old. I understand that he needs to learn what 'No' means and we're in the process of teaching him this but I've never had a dog that does this......help!

Totally normal was my experience. Mine used to launch himself at my jeans and hang on with his teeth.

The only thing that worked was to anticipate the bitey period when he was more tired or over stimulated and therefore more bitey. Timeouts to enforce sleep helped as did just separating him from me behind baby gates etc until he calmed down.

Generally when they're in that stage, they're hugely over-stimulated and in need of a nap!

He should be getting around 20h sleep per day at that age - is he getting that?

Dogs don't understand 'no' as it has no context. No what? Tell that what you do want them to do. You can train watch, sit etc and distract them out using that.

Replace your leg with acceptable item in the meantime and if they get beyond that it's probably nap time! Ours definitely worst behaved when overtired and hyped.

10 week old puppies gonna bite. It's a good job they're cute!

Whe we had a rescue that was a biter we had to get additional training and were told to overreact and yelp very loudly like it hurt, and then ignore them. It did eventually work but all of the family need to do it.

What worked for us was stepping out the room, just for 2 or 3 seconds, it reset her. Don’t yelp or engage. Ignore the bad. Also it’s usually worse when they were tired. They need a lot of sleep.

It does get better.

The Facebook group Dog Training Advice and Support was invaluable when our dog was a puppy (www.facebook.com/groups/dogtrainingadviceandsupport/?ref=share).

Cocker spaniel aka "cockerdile" so v bitey!

It's totally normal behaviour - but saying "No" or making a noise etc won't help.
One of our best purchases was a "flirt pole" toy for keeping sharp teeth away from hands and ankles.

If you think about the world from a puppy's perspective, legs and feet are often the most interesting thing available to them that they can reach, not only that but when they bite them they learn they get your attention too so it becomes the best game ever to them. Yelping turns you into a giant exciting squeaky toy. Shouting 'no' doesn't mean anything to a puppy, in order for a punishment (anything that you do to stop a behaviour) to be effective it has to be really severe, either painful or scary, and you don't want to do that to your puppy and risk damaging your relationship at this early stage.
Instead, make sure the puppy has plenty of appropriate things to be doing, chews, toys that you play with them with, get a variety of textures and types of toys so you can find out what your dog particularly likes and engages with well. And give them loads of attention and praise when they're doing he right thing!

Any time they mouth you or bite your feet, if possible ignore them and get your feet out of reach for a few seconds until they're calm (either by lifting them up onto your chair or leave the room). He'll quickly learn biting people leads to nothing fun but there are other things he can be doing which are fun and get him your attention.

I have a 10 week old gsd pup, who does this to me in the evening, in the garden for the last wee before bed. So yes, tiredness I'd say. I've been crate training since I got him, and this evening after the final wee and ankle biting, he took himself off to his crate and went to sleep. Do you use a crate OP? I wasn't so keen at first, but it's helped him to learn how to calm himself down and he sleeps very well, settles easily