My yellow lab puppy Larks is 9 weeks old. She is doing very well at potty training and crate training, knows sit, lay down, stay and come and is just too smart for her own good. The only thing I am struggling with is puppy biting! I am a full time nanny and Larks gets to come to work with me, which is wonderful. The little boy I nanny is a few months over 1 year. He LOVES the puppy and she loves him too but the puppy biting is CRAZY around him. I imagine it's because he's just her size but no matter what I do she doesn't like to stop and the little guy obviously can't do anything about it. They are never together unsupervised but I don't want her to hurt him. I would welcome any suggestions you have! Thank you!
I think in everyone's best interest you should take a crate and/or baby gates to work in order to separate pup and toddler. You absolutely must prevent any accidents. It's the trickiest combination I think as neither will have much in the way of self control.
Hi and welcome to the forum Have a read of this article which gives advice on puppies biting (and puppies biting children). http://www.thelabradorsite.com/labrador-puppies-biting/ It's usually not a phase that lasts very long, so that's a good thing!
Our yellow lab is also 9 weeks, and I have a 5 year old and 3 year old. You will have to be particularly careful with a 1 year old. I definitely find Loki tries to grab onto the little ones more then us grown ups, probably because he sees them as good play things and fun. I have a baby gate separating the kitchen/diner from then rest of the house where the children are usually playing. When they're together they have to be closely supervised. And things like them all playing in the garden gets our pup excited. But with a 1 year old probably best to keep them separated all of the time at this stage.
Hello, welcome. I think loads of us here have been through this. I have a 7 month old lab and between about 10 weeks and 15-16 weeks she was constantly nipping. Coming on here was a saviour through that time. I have a three year old and it was definitely worse with him. I found that I almost had to treat the pup like a baby and make sure she had plenty of down time in her crate to snooze in the day, I segregated the pup and the toddler through the day and the combination was just exhausting. A toddler can wind up a pup to play excitedly and that makes things worse so you need to make sure you give her time to chill out. She did grow out of it eventually but I definitely recommend that you separate her from the toddler until she has, a crate and keep her on a lead. Good luck!
Yes, crate and baby gates is the way to go. Don't expect the pup to be sensible around the toddler - wait till she's an adult to enjoy that stage. But do let the pup be a normal pup with you and play etc. Too much restriction will cause frustration. ...
