Hey all,
I have a 5 month old standard poodle puppy, she is beautiful and has been really good for many weeks now. We’ve made good progress with her training and are attending weekly sessions but we are struggling with her biting. We tend to find she will be absolutely fine and then she gets a wild look in her eye and all she wants to do is bite me hard. It punctures the skin and can bleed sometimes too. When I walk her she’ll run at me, jump and bite my arm hard too. I do what I’ve been advised and completely ignore her but the minute I walk again she’ll just start again. She did this when she was young stopped for a good month but has just started doing it again, the issue is she’s quite big now so it hurts! She’s also not listening to me as much as she used to, she used to sit, down, stay on command now she will try to avoid doing it.
We take her on two walks a day for 20 minutes each, play with her, train her, give her attention so I feel it isn’t an exercise problem. Does anyone have any advice, is this normal behaviour at her age?
I have a 5 month old standard poodle puppy, she is beautiful and has been really good for many weeks now. We’ve made good progress with her training and are attending weekly sessions but we are struggling with her biting. We tend to find she will be absolutely fine and then she gets a wild look in her eye and all she wants to do is bite me hard. It punctures the skin and can bleed sometimes too. When I walk her she’ll run at me, jump and bite my arm hard too. I do what I’ve been advised and completely ignore her but the minute I walk again she’ll just start again. She did this when she was young stopped for a good month but has just started doing it again, the issue is she’s quite big now so it hurts! She’s also not listening to me as much as she used to, she used to sit, down, stay on command now she will try to avoid doing it.
We take her on two walks a day for 20 minutes each, play with her, train her, give her attention so I feel it isn’t an exercise problem. Does anyone have any advice, is this normal behaviour at her age?