Zoey's Mommy
01-24-2001, 08:11 PM
Hello everyone,
I read the earlier post about biting, but I think Zoey falls into a different category. She is 2 months 2 weeks old and a mini. She stays home in a gated off kitchen/dining area w/ her crate, pee-pads, toys, and water. She is usually home most of the day 5-7hrs and is very excited when we get home. We don't go right to her when we get home to try and keep her from getting so excited and it has helped some. When we do take her out to play she goes crazy which is perfectly understandable. We run her and play ball and w/ her chew toys.
The problem is she will not stop biting at us. She only does it when she gets real fired up, so I don't think it is a dominance issue. She is just excited. We have tried chin-bop, but she just tries to bite your hand before you can get her. She thinks it is a game and it only gets her more fired up because when you remove your hand she chases it, snapping for it. I have also tried grabbing her face and putting her nose in my mouth and applying pressure. She does let out a little cry while I do this, but it doesn't help. I just feel awful because we don't get to much time w/ her and it seems all the time we do we are either chin-bopping or biting our dog.
The seperation anx has gone away unless she can see us from behind the gate in her kitchen. And when we are cleaning we can lock her in her kennel w/ out the ungodly screaming happening so that is good news.
I think that is all you need to know. She stays in her area all the time unless we take her outside or on the couch. Thanks for reading this long post.
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I read the earlier post about biting, but I think Zoey falls into a different category. She is 2 months 2 weeks old and a mini. She stays home in a gated off kitchen/dining area w/ her crate, pee-pads, toys, and water. She is usually home most of the day 5-7hrs and is very excited when we get home. We don't go right to her when we get home to try and keep her from getting so excited and it has helped some. When we do take her out to play she goes crazy which is perfectly understandable. We run her and play ball and w/ her chew toys.
The problem is she will not stop biting at us. She only does it when she gets real fired up, so I don't think it is a dominance issue. She is just excited. We have tried chin-bop, but she just tries to bite your hand before you can get her. She thinks it is a game and it only gets her more fired up because when you remove your hand she chases it, snapping for it. I have also tried grabbing her face and putting her nose in my mouth and applying pressure. She does let out a little cry while I do this, but it doesn't help. I just feel awful because we don't get to much time w/ her and it seems all the time we do we are either chin-bopping or biting our dog.
The seperation anx has gone away unless she can see us from behind the gate in her kitchen. And when we are cleaning we can lock her in her kennel w/ out the ungodly screaming happening so that is good news.
I think that is all you need to know. She stays in her area all the time unless we take her outside or on the couch. Thanks for reading this long post.
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