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Training puppies not to bite doesn’t have to be an abusive situation where you smack your puppy within the face each time it takes a small bite of you. This kind of behavior on your part is just plain cruel and does not solve the biting problem anyway.

It is normal for small puppies to desire to nip or bite at things when they are teething. It is also significant to learn that puppies and dogs bite and nip in the normal process of playing.

This is part of the pack mentality that has been given by ancestors of the dog species. In a pack, puppies will nip and bite one another and they really don’t realize how hard they are biting until a bitten puppy or dog yelps.

Training dogs not to bite is essential due to the fact that they now have to conform to good behavior in a home condition. They must abandon the wild pack behavior that was prevalent before man domesticated dogs a millennia ago.

People often employ two basic methods.