Comments on: How to Get a Doberman Puppy to Stop Biting: The Best Method

By: John Walter

John Walter — Wed, 20 May 2020 04:26:47 +0000

In reply to Paige Ybarra. I'm sorry to hear the issues Paige but I assure you that you aren't alone. Honestly, the biggest thing you can do is stay consistent, don't lose your cool, and hang in there. Maturity will catch up to your training and when those two combine then you'll be golden! The worse thing you could do is give up before that happens. You could also try doing an alpha roll on the dog very rarely to see how that changes things. You'll have to google how to do that since I don't have details on my site of that technique just yet. But don't overuse the alpha roll. It should be for very rare times.

By: Paige Ybarra

Paige Ybarra — Sun, 17 May 2020 01:27:57 +0000

My little guy is 7, almost 8 weeks old. We watched your videos prior to bringing him home, and they’ve helped a BUNCH.
But my puppy is SO headstrong! Every time we move through the levels, and every time we disengage he still comes after our ankles! We continue to use the level 3 technique when he does this, and he submits pretty quickly, but I want to know what else we can do to stop this madness lol!

By: Camille F DeStefano-Peritz

Camille F DeStefano-Peritz — Fri, 15 May 2020 04:39:31 +0000

My husband and I are going to try your techniques to stop our Doberman from biting and jumping. She is nine months old, extremely headstrong. My other three dogs have difficulty with her, because they are 9, 10, and 11 years old respectively. When we tell her to stop biting them because they are getting mad, it then turns to a fight. We understand that she is trying to show dominance with them, and is protective of her humans, but, we have to correct this behavior.

By: John Walter

John Walter — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:29:43 +0000

In reply to Beth. Yeah, that's typically a dominant behavior. Don't allow her to do this. If she does, make sure to immediately turn around and apply the appropriate correction level as described in this article. Just make sure this is never allowed without a strong, firm correction or she'll keep doing it hoping "this time" you'll allow it like you have in the past.

By: Beth

Beth — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 20:54:24 +0000

My puppy is 13 weeks old. I have pretty good success with your tips for biting but my dog has another behavior that sometimes accompanies her biting. She will jump up and hold my leg as I’m walking away, sometimes nipping the back of my leg. Is this a dominant behavior or needy behavior?

My thought is dominant… what is the best way to deal with this? She holds on really tight.

Thank you!

By: Kaushik

Kaushik — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 16:43:23 +0000

Found your website the other day while searching for the solutions for puppy biting. Before that I tried as other trainers suggest like ignoring the dog or squealing and so on but nothing worked. And yes squealing made things worst. Even took my dog to play with an adult 3 years old doberman hoping he would submit. But he just ignored the big dog like i don’t care who you are. Yesterday for the first time tried your strategy on my biting shark (Rudy, 11 weeks old red and rust doberman puppy) following the steps as you have described. Redirecting worked for a couple of times. But when he got excited, firm no with open palm near his face and ignoring him didn’t work no matter how many times i tried. Had to grab his muzzle. Today again i tried with a firm no and open palm whenever he tried to bite. Each time he ignored first 2-3 no s, then he started backing up. I hope it goes well. I am from India and we generally don’t get to see the puppy before taking it home. Basically we absolutely don’t know anything about the puppies we are getting. When I got him he was only 6 weeks old, underweight and was suffering from diarrhoea. Still he is underweight but he is recovering very well. The good thing is he has high level food and prey drive both. He knows his name, look, come, sit, down, stand, on your bed commands with no to minimum distractions. Also tries to wait for his food but as a puppy I can’t expect him to be perfect. But just a no works well whenever he tries to reach his food. One thing I never do unless I have something for him is calling his name. I train him by myself as all the trainers I’ve come accross love to train dobies or gsd like dogs or even labradors with choke collar and by yanking the dog with loud and frustrated voice. I train him obidience 3 times a day for 10 minutes maximum before feeding and some basic agility once while playing just for his exercise and throughout the day I randomly ask him to do something. I don’t know if it is too much or less or ok but he is performing well. One thing I have failed till now is housebreaking. And I’ve read the short info you’ve given on that. Finding your website is a great deal for me. I hope with the help of your efforts I will be able to make him a gentle giant. My comment is pretty long as I love to talk about what i love and also because this comment is not only on the biting topic but also all the other topics I have read. They are ridiculously awesome. You have a good understanding of this breed and you are doing a great work by sharing your knowledge with the world. Thank you and wish you all the very best.

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 22:40:33 +0000

The method that I use to stop our Doberman puppies from biting was too jammed my thumb to the back of their throat gagging them and they would no longer bite this worked for all of our Dobermans that we have owned and so far we’ve owned at four. This method was taught to me by another Doberman owner.