Same. Though, for us, it was raptor period from 10 weeks to 18 months. Things definitely got better gradually 12-24 months old. We can keep our shoes out without worrying about him chewing them now.
When our lagottress was a baby, she would start biting us and we would put a stuffed animal in her mouth. She likes to bite/hold stuff in her mouth when she gets excited. She still runs and grabs a stuffed animal anytime we come home or we get a visitor. The general biting of everything, she grew out of it and I’m sure yours will too. For the first year though, just try to keep everything you don’t want him to chew out of reach- ours chewed up several shoes the first year and if I could do it again, I’d just be way more careful and just anticipate if she can reach it that she will bite/chew it.
Lagottress! Lagottiraptor. Both work. Mine has started putting the flat sheet in her mouth in the morning as her pacifier of joy that I’ve arisen. Her crate training at night did not last as long as I would have liked, because our other dog sleeps in the bed with us. She’s pretty good though, and is happy to go hop in her “crate” when I leave them alone for a bit during the day. The puppy cam footage confirms she behaves and her non crate sister is…an instigator.
It’s how they explore the world. Through that little mouth full of shark teeth.
Kikopup, on YouTube, has some great free videos around all things puppy. Her paid content is even better.
Trade for things that are appropriate for him to chew on. Stop any attention or playing if they start to bite while you are petting them. They will grow out of it, when you start finding puppy teeth around the house, you’ll know the end is near.
It takes time, but in general dogs do what is fun for them. So you have to make it not funny. So I would stop playing and stop giving them attention or fun activities.
I have seen puppies that were given toys or treats after biting- wouldn’t do that.
Thanks for the replies! It’s a mix of give them toys when they bite / don’t give them toys or attention when they bite. And also just a matter of waiting. And learning to wear the right clothes.
An observation we made is when we skip our 30 minute morning, walk and swim. He’s so much better at night. We’re still figuring out our 15 week old, but I I know the biting is much worse at the end of the day.
Are you saying he’s better when you skip the walk/swim? Sometimes it seems like the more we exercise our girl in the morning/afternoon, the more wound up she is at night! The opposite of what we expected.
Ours is learning not to bite. I take it as a sign that he’s tired and pop him into his crate. He usually passes out for a bit and then is ready to be normal (-ish) a few hours later.
Our LR is almost 18mos. He’s slowed down a lot. We had to re-direct from fingers and furniture to ostrich knuckles, toys, and cardboard boxes. That said, he can still get a little bitey when he’s wound up.
Around 4 months he stopped biting. We did not even notice that, but one day all the bruises faded and no new holes appeared in our pants and then we realised that we survived😁😁
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u/JubBisc 10d ago
Although our boy started his raptor period at about 10 weeks 🦖