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_Jules_  Offline
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| Blondie1 wrote: | So what is it with labs? Why so much more mouthy than other breeds, just pondering?!
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I have always assummed, it has something to do with the fact that they have been bred for years to desire holding things in their mouth....although I may be barking up completely the wrong tree.  I wonder what Goldens, Flat Coats and Curlies are like as pups ...Hmmmm  .
Mojo still does that mouthy thing when you tickle her tum too...as you say it's like they can't help themselves, but they are everso gentle about it....because they have learnt the Bite Inhibition thing well. 
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Basil Offline
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Great post.
It does seem to get missed by a lot of new puppy owners - I've read a lot of threads on here saying the kids are frightened or they think they have a viscious pup 
It's not just kids though, we were lucky with Basil his mouthiness was completely gone by about 18 weeks but up to that point OH was convinced Basil hated him.
He was just one giant chew toy for Basil to hang onto; his jeans, shoe laces, arm etc. Basil was his first pup and it was a shock to the system despite the forewarning from the books 
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 7:17 am Post subject: Re: Labrador puppies DO bite a lot and hard too. |
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| _Jules_ wrote: | I have found that with many newbies to Labs, their biggest concern is how much and how hard their puppies bite.
They bite hard enough to break skin, they also growl, pounce, attack and do numerous other "undesirable" things which you NEVER see the Andrex puppy doing . |
Great post Jules and yes even the Andrex puppy 'did' do all of those things 
If you have an older dog at home then the new puppy can learn loads from interaction with the dog re bite inhibition. However I cannot stress the importance of going to puppy socialisation classes to learn bite inhibition amongst other things. At times it sounds as though they are murdering each other but they learn so much at these classes and are a must for single puppy owners.
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I don't know about 10 year olds, my 20 year olds+ weren't so keen  When we said we were getting another they thought we were completely mad.
Interesting Willow has only ever bitten us about 3 times when she went for a toy and missed. You should see what she does with Dibley though ... when they play you can hear her teeth clashing together. Dibley takes so much and then we hear several yelps from Willow and he has got her flattened and is biting her ear. It sounds terrifying but when you look she has a very wet ear but no blood, he clearly knows how much force to bite her with.
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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Well done Jules, another brilliant pearl of wisdom , Morris is almost, almost one now and does it when we tickle his tum, but like Mojo so gentle. He has also learnt to gently 'give' me 'things', a shrew, a bird, a mouse, again very gently and I never thought we'd get there, thinking he'd munch them up or leg it with them  , so it does get sooooooooooooo much better and like you say it's just what they do
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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Really great post Jules. Thanks for that.
We have coped with the biting thing quite well with Lola, because our breeder told us exactly what to expect and thinking back, she has calmed down an awful lot already, and she is still only 15 weeks.
Must admit I didn't realise the growling thing was just as normal though, so this has been a timely post for me. This morning, when i was playing with Lola on the Common she got herself very excited, and at one point really growled and then launched herself at my arm. I managed to get her to sit and she calmed down quite quickly, but it did scare me, I have to be honest. At least now I really reassured it was normal behaviour!
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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A very timely message!
I had just been thinking on posting about george's biting. He's four months this week and we haven't really seen any improvement in the last few weeks. If anything in the last fortnight he's got 4 new teeth and it's got a lot worse, despite us constantly yelping/ah-ahing and ignoring him briefly when he does bite.
I'm guessing each dog is different but roughly when do most of them grow out of it!?? At the minute it's a rareity to be able to be in lunging distance and for him not to take advantage!
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Great Post!!
Put my mind at rest on several "issues", you know it's normal, but sometimes just hearing other peoples experiences helps no end.
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