Hi friends, back again
Little girl cockapoo will be 5 months old on the 27th. She’s wonderful (and for anyone who’s seen my previous posts, living her best life w babysitters and puppy friends when we’re not with her). But there’s 2 concerns I have right now.
The first is that she’s still teething and the bigger she gets the more her bites hurt. She has all of her adult teeth now but her canines, which if need be will come out in 2 months when she’s spayed. Is it normal to continue teething even once most adult teeth are in? Any recommendations aside from redirection, which only work momentarily?
Secondly, she has no concept of no-nos. We’ve been trying to teach her “no bite” and we say “toy” and point which she has gotten better about but only when she’s not catastrophe level zoomy. I feel awful because I go back and forth between being horrible at telling her no because I can’t help but laugh when I see her little face, and getting so frustrated I cry. We have been trying reverse timeouts, and timeouts in her pen but even this seems to only stop her for about 20 minutes before the biting comes back.
The part that makes the least sense to me is that she’s actually amazing at other things- she tells us when she needs to go potty, understands what “bed time” means, does great with “sit” and is much better at sitting still for brushing/teeth cleaning/ear cleaning. Why is the biting the thing she can’t seem to get?
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