And, finally, the nipping and biting issue! These behaviors were useful skills at work. Border collies had to chase the sheep and nip at them to return them to the flock. They also chased away predators and vermin. Biting to teach any unwelcome offender a lesson was probably an option on the table. As you are well aware, border collies retained their mouthy behaviors well enough to be so well known for them!
Some border collies will nip your ankles when you are simply walking around the house. They are also prone to playful nipping while playing with people or other pets.
This behavior is particularly problematic and consequential when your pooch tries to herd young children. In the eyes of a diligent herder, young kids can act like puppies or sheep who need to be protected and prevented from crawling or running away.
Your dog may not only try to nip their heels but also nip their hood or shirt on their neck. It could become a serious safety concern at this point, and the behavior must be addressed. According to a renowned canine psychologist Stanley Cohen, border collies are the smartest dogs. High intelligence does not always mean that the dog is easy to maintain but high working intelligence is an important characteristic to encourage or discourage behaviors.
It means the dog responds very well to training, and therein lies the solution. To begin with, it is important to figure out what triggers your dog. If joggers make him react, do your best to avoid places that have many joggers until your border collie learns to control his impulses. If your border collie bites playfully or just randomly when at home, there are several methods to teach them not to do so. Older dogs may not respond to time-out as well but hyperactive young dogs do.
Staying in a crate for a little bit could be helpful for them to collect themselves and calm down. The ability to learn commands, as well as new skills, is a strength of border collies, so use it to their advantage! Use the same command every single time you want a behavior to stop, at least to start with. Once the dog learns to behave appropriately in a certain situation, commands will not be necessary. Border collies as a breed memorize new commands solidly but may still need a refresher now and then.
It is important to pick the right time for training, too. Border collies often get a little hyperactive and even overstimulated, which is not conducive to learning.
If your pup is too excited, maybe wait with the training until he is calm enough to be receptive. Border collies are highly active. Providing them with an opportunity to exercise will help them release some energy. They will be less tempted to chase and bite ankles if they are tired enough and regularly get physical and mental stimulation.
Even though it is not possible to completely get rid of herding nature of Border Collie, but you can definitely train your dog to prevent nipping and with time you will notice decrease in their herding instinct as well. Generally their herding instinct is at the fullest when they are not taken out for walk for so long which makes them feel bored, and then when you take them out and set free to roam around and play, they become restless and start nipping.
Border Collie is a breed full of energy and enthusiasm, and because of that when there is no activity to occupy their mind they are full of energy, hence the herding and nipping.
That is the main reason why as a pet owner you have to keep your dog engaged in some sort of mental and physical activities. Have a look at these points that can help your Border Collie to stop nipping —. Basically you have to engage your dog in some activity to divert his mind to avoid nipping and herding. Playing and Running — Take your dog out for walk for at least an hour a day.
I squealed like a stuck pig and got up and walked away. That was the end of it! Dallas is typically really gentle when it comes to taking food from our hand. He tends to be fast but not really frantic. He's always gentle, though. I have dealt with this by yelping like a dog, and then taking the puppy and shutting her in another room or her crate for 5 minutes, or yelping and then completely ignoring her for same number of minutes. They are doing it to get attention so you give them the opposite of what they want.
And the yelp is something a puppy understands. One puppy who persistently bit my ear, I finally got really annoyed when other things did not work and I turned around and bit her ear. That took care of that. Wasn't my puppy; the owner told me it had been a problem for a while but after that she never did it again.
I'd say start over, keep faces out of reach, do the yelp-and-ignore tactic and put her on a time out if she can't calm down. Over excitement is a big contributor to that sort of thing. They think they are just playing, but even older dogs won't tolerate too much puppy-biting to the face.
I also have no aversion to an actual physical correction and a big NO, sometimes. I don't mean beating the puppy, but when my little female kept trying to leap up in my lap to bite my nose!!! It wasn't traumatic, didn't hurt, wasn't abusive and got the point across.
There really is no harm in just saying NO. I don't teach pups not to bite like the pup's littermates do. I teach them like their mother does. Snapping jaws in your face by a bordercollie sized dog I would definitely say "no", and I would say it only once, after that it is "coming down like a ton of bricks" time. The dog has to understand that this kind of play with humans is absolutely unacceptable.
Until that is clear I would not let him on the couch with you. And certainly no more playing rough like your brother in law did. I know the rather strange habit of calling dogs "puppies" when they are imo way past that life stage.
I personally would not call an 8 month dog a puppy anymore, and by that age such a behavior has become more or less ingrained. I think it is a bit optimistic that you will be able to cure this problem with one single correction at this point. Its not acceptable and its fairly dangerous if kids are involved at all. I had Bonnie at the age of months and her mother in the same household. It didn't seem the mother changed her technique at this stage from the time at about 5 weeks old up until 5 weeks pups were not corrected in any way, and after that period, Kelly very diligently taught them puppy manners.
And this is where the difference is in my opinion: Sometimes the "litter mate" response works best because the pup is just ignorant. But sometimes the pup is testing the boundaries and then it may not work so well. But the way a good older dog reacts to such mischief is in my opinion a good track to follow. Kelly, Bonnie's mother - always impressed me with her dispassionate, short and decisive correction of the youngsters, much in the way that Gloria wrote: She always warned them first with a short growl.
And if that didn't work, then the next step. Long time ago, I bought a video by Derek Scrimgeour The Shepherd's Pup - much to my surprise the youngest dog there was, I think, 7 months old, and there was a "pup" in the video that was 1. I figured at that time that if Derek says it's a pup, then it's a pup. Later, it was very useful in training, since a dog this age looks grown-up, but mentally it is very immature.
If your collie is nipping at strangers, they are probably in herding mode and trying to steer the stranger away from them. Another reason your collie might use nipping with strangers is that they are trying to make friends with them.
Collies are very social and may use nipping or play-biting to judge whether someone is a friend or foe. Based on the reaction to their friendly nibbling, your collie can form an opinion about the stranger.
This is kind of similar to how you might slap a friend on the back or give them a tight hug when you see them. Though this behavior is normal and not aggressive, it may be unwanted, especially in public places.
If you take your dog to the dog park, unwanted nibbles can look worse than they actually are and even if the dogs are fine, you might upset the other dog walkers.
Let your collie know that nipping is unacceptable by calling out and moving away from them. This will help socialize your collie and teach them that their nipping is unwanted behavior. If your collie knows that nipping gets a reaction from you, they may be nipping at you to try to get you to play with them. If your collie is getting overexcited, try to calm your collie down with a time out period.
Your collie is a herding dog and seeing a sharp or jerky movement triggers the herding instinct in them. Collies love games. Collies love puzzles and treats.
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