Golden Retriever Biting

Dogs being dogs are predators in nature. So are Golden Retrievers! Predatory instincts in Golden Retrievers never completely disappear. They may continue chasing other animals, small children, and biting at things and peoples. Is your Golden Retriever biting and barking your visitors away? Looking for effective ways to handle this? Domestication can mitigate this behavior to the extent that they become a truly docile member of your family. Here’s how:

Biting is a puppy behavior in Goldens. They also have tendency for nipping. Both of these behaviors should be discouraged especially when you have small children at your home. You need to exhibit care around strangers as well as your little Goldens can hurt an unsuspecting stranger or a passerby with the intention of not to hurt them but to get their attention to play – after all Goldens are the most playful of all dog breeds.

Goldens want to play and nip so their mother or the playmates teach them when it is too hard a bite. Now with you and us, that is with humans, any bite is too hard especially with small children. So how do you control Golden Retriever biting? Consistent training and conditioning to human behavior will help. You need to remember there aren’t any bad dogs but just bad masters.

Now the big question is how to discourage Golden Retriever biting. The most basic thing that you may do is to pretend to be their mother dog, meaning you teach them when they are really hard in their bites. The point is how you teach them. Well, you could yell at them, and yell loudly, every time they bite. In your yells, you could mention NO, STOP, or DON’T BITE. Gradually, they would realize that biting doesn’t go well you and they must stop doing that. Besides, you could always assert on your Golden that you are the master. This assertion could be through sudden removal of your Golden’s food so as to startle them. They would realize that to get food, they have to obey you.

To stop biting behavior in your Goldens, you should take care of one very important aspect – never pull back when they bite you. It gives them the impression that they dominate. Rather when they bite, you should move forward towards them as if to intimidate them, making a fierce eye connection and scaring them. If they rip you clothes, just roll them over their body and pin them there for few minutes to embezzle them as to what happened. They would take care not to repeat that.

You can use several tried and tested methods to stop Golden Retriever biting – a firm NO, a slight rebuke, a loud yell, a distraction to something else – all of them work. However, realizing that it is absolutely a natural behavior for them, you have to be patient and rational. In the course of time, over your understanding of your Golden, you will see that you yourself develop an ingenious method, consciously or subconsciously, to stop biting behavior in your Golden.