Hello everyone, I am a new member - pleased to meet you all. I have a 8.5 week old Llasa Apso/Jack Russel pup we got about a week ago. The first week went well, without incidence of biting except for the normal pup biting which I have always ignored when he bit too hard. I would yelp, say 'NO!' and then walk away from him.
Well last night he was given a real meat bone, a rib bone (in case that makes a difference, lol). When my 2 year old daughter came by him, she wanted to see it and tried to free if from him and growled loudly like I have never heard before and bit her hand. Seeing this I was stunned and did the same thing to see if the behavior would repeat itself (bad move on my part, lol) and sure enough, he bit the crud out of my hand and drew blood in several spots. I yelled my head off and after the bite, told him 'NO!' again, however, he growled whenever anyone came close to him for quite a while, like he was still on guard despite the fact I removed the 'offending' bone.
This morning was no exception either, as it happened again when he was chewing his bone - our Lynx Point Siamese came 'too close' to him as he was chewing his bone and aggressively growled, barked, and then and went after our cat and tried to bite him (who is 19 lbs and 5x bigger than he!) I am not sure if I should have done this, but I grabbed him by the scruff of the neck (so he couldnt bite me, which he was trying to do) and looked him in the eyes and very loudly and sternly said "NO BITING!" I then put him down, ignored him, and took his bone from him.
Ok, my concern is that he will really hurt my 2 year old. If he would have bit her as hard as he did me last night, it probably would have pierced one of her fingers. How do I nip this in the bud right now before it gets out of hand....I am very distressed since my daughter Brooklyn loves to play with him and I have noticed an increase in his growling toward her as well when she tries to pick him up.
Help!
Well last night he was given a real meat bone, a rib bone (in case that makes a difference, lol). When my 2 year old daughter came by him, she wanted to see it and tried to free if from him and growled loudly like I have never heard before and bit her hand. Seeing this I was stunned and did the same thing to see if the behavior would repeat itself (bad move on my part, lol) and sure enough, he bit the crud out of my hand and drew blood in several spots. I yelled my head off and after the bite, told him 'NO!' again, however, he growled whenever anyone came close to him for quite a while, like he was still on guard despite the fact I removed the 'offending' bone.
This morning was no exception either, as it happened again when he was chewing his bone - our Lynx Point Siamese came 'too close' to him as he was chewing his bone and aggressively growled, barked, and then and went after our cat and tried to bite him (who is 19 lbs and 5x bigger than he!) I am not sure if I should have done this, but I grabbed him by the scruff of the neck (so he couldnt bite me, which he was trying to do) and looked him in the eyes and very loudly and sternly said "NO BITING!" I then put him down, ignored him, and took his bone from him.
Ok, my concern is that he will really hurt my 2 year old. If he would have bit her as hard as he did me last night, it probably would have pierced one of her fingers. How do I nip this in the bud right now before it gets out of hand....I am very distressed since my daughter Brooklyn loves to play with him and I have noticed an increase in his growling toward her as well when she tries to pick him up.
Help!