How to Stop Staffy Puppy Biting?
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Any advice on how to stop my puppy from biting, he is only playing but dont realise how hard he does it and dont want this to carry on as he will get bigger and will hurt more.
Sounds cruel but hold his mouth shut when does it so knows. We just had husky and was doing it week after lockingmouth don’t do no more. He’s teething and will won’t to bit on anything distract him with a bone
thank you so much for the advice, he was nipping again last night and i held his mouth shut and said no, took a few attempts but this morn he gently did it and i only had to say no and he stopped, feel more relaxed now.
smedleys97 it takes time think has him a toddler they need telling so many times. Another thing people tend to do is play rough with there dogs don’t because when he’s bigger this will not help don’t forget a staffy jaw locks
Ann1984 ye im not for playing rough, we just play fetch well throw i should say and get, he is yet to bring the ball back ahha, and he has all his toys xx
The kennel club suggest not playing roughly or over exciting your puppy.
If they are biting, turn your back and tuck your hands in your arm sockets, withdrawing your attention.
Shouting at him is a type of attention so doesn’t really work.
Chew toys to distract him worked well with us. We went through many though as he would have them chewed to pieces in no time! The Kong toys are very robust.
Staffys make lovely dogs 
Teething rings are good we give one to are staffy and when she did bite I yelped out and acted liked I cried she stopped within a week
Please don't be offended - for some reason that really made me laugh out loud. (I could picture it).
Incidentally I recall your name from comics about seventy years ago. She was described as "Pansy Potter - The strong man's daughter".
When he /she bites tell them no and enforce it it will work it has worked well with all my dogs
Thank you for the advice will try these, he is teething and been told he will calm down in time but will try what has been commented, thank you all x
smedleys97 ours chewed his way through my daughters make up bag and (expensive) contents when he was a puppy! I came home to lipstick all over the carpet and dog!! She learned to keep her door shut after that!
gerrykelly25 aww look at his face, im having to keep shoes out of reach as he loves to take them and hide them or either chew them, daughter was searching her room the other day as he hid one of her shoes haha
smedleys97 such a cute puppy just continue to enforce the word no and push him away when he bites and it will work eventually you could give him a antler chew in a large size as these are good for teething pups and don’t splinter like bones, he will calm down eventually
we had a staffy and what we were taught was to from a young age swap the thing for example if they nip at the hand give them a toy so they begin to associate that behaviour with chewing toys, my dog never really nipped after that but did have an obsession with socks lol
Our staff nipped at 2 (bladdy massive teeth
) - we rescued him as he had just been left in a kennel and had little interaction. I would give him a little push away and ignore him for a minute soon learnt not to 
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