This training game teaches puppies not to bite at your clothes, accessories, shoes, shoelaces and hair. This is one of the first games to play with your new puppy. My puppy in the video is 8 weeks old and I had just gotten him a few days prior to the filming. The first few days I had my puppy I first worked on teaching him how to take treats nicely as well as how to do a calm settle around food.
Here are two video tutorials on those topics:
Calm settle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wesm2OpE_2c
Take treats nicely - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXDWbtx44b8

It's important to use management and prevention between training sessions so your puppy doesn't rehearse the behavior. And if a mistake happens and the puppy starts to bite at something or someone quickly redirect the puppy to doing another behavior, such as playing with his toys or going to his bed. Here is a video on interrupting undesirable behaviors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLr3ame9Ptk

In the video I demonstrate how to work with a dangling sweater, shoes and shoe laces but you can use this same method to work with your puppy on anything that your puppy shows interest in moving toward and biting... for example if you have long hair and the puppy wants to bite at it, bracelets, dresses, skirts, long jackets, or kids playing with their own toys you don't want the puppy to play with.

Here is a list of the steps:
Step 1 Mark as the distraction happens
Step 2 Mark after the distraction begins
Step 3 Add more time before you mark
Step 4 Add difficulty and variety to the training

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