Puppy biting question

[Guest Anonymous]

Nellie is 8 weeks old now and has settled in beautifully :)
However, she does like to jump up and grab sleeves, and chew on the baby's arms and legs rather a lot, which is obviously starting to hurt him because he is so small himself.
What is the best way to stop her doing this?

She's already learned 'sit' and 'down' from me quite well and will do those things when I tell her to quite a lot of the time including if she's jumping all over the baby, but as soon as I turn my back she'll do it again.

I know about the pretending to yelp like a puppy and putting her down and ignoring her if she does it to me, and my older children can do that too, but the baby can't.

Thanks

T

[Guest Anonymous]

Thanks for the advice. That's pretty much what I am doing at the moment - she doesn't have a crate but her night time bed is in the kitchen so I put her in there with the baby gate closed. In a fortnight it will work well but at the moment the little scamp can still just about wriggle underneath it and work her way out :lol:

I can obviously close the door but she really does find that distressing if she can hear us and is totally out of the loop so I'm reluctant to do that but will of course if that's what it takes.

Someone told me I should flick her on the nose but that seems like bad advice to me as it's not something I'd naturally do at all and I suspect would cause more harm than good as it would hurt Nellie and perhaps encourage her to bite an approaching finger - not sure what you think of that? :-?

Of course the baby is no angel either and does try to sit on the puppy, smack her, cuddle her like a teddy bear etc. so it's finding the happy medium. The puppy will be around children a great deal so she will have to be able to deal with unexpected things from kids, at least to a point.

Thanks :)