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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a puppy now and the socialization has been okay- there are still lots of opportunities. Our training instructor (virtual classes) has described a few ways in which it is even better (people not constantly approaching the adorable puppy, puppy learning to control their excitement at new people) but this might be her trying to find the silver lining. We do take puppy on lots of walks to grocery store parking lots, different parts of the neighbor, empty school grounds and there are lots of opportunities in these places if you are creative. We are struggling with dog socialization a bit. 
The actual work of a puppy is incredible. Like PP, our previous dog came to us as a 9 month old so the puppy thing is new. Ours was pretty much house trained after 4 weeks, was sleeping through the night (with a few regressions Here and there) at 11 or 12 weeks. 8-12 weeks she’d wake once to go out in the middle of the night so it wasn’t horrible. Our biggest challenge is that she’s very nippy. Her teeth are crazy sharp and draw blood. We’re working on that with stern “no”, turning and stopping play and, recently, a physical correction if she’s really out of line. We were reluctant to do the physical correction since most people advise against it but her biting started getting really out of hand, it was a last resort -it’s just not okay for her to very painfully bite/ sometimes drawing blood at her will. And it has worked like a miracle- she still bites occasionally but now responds To “no” and is clearly trying to not bite. [/quote]

What kind of physical correction do you do.  I agree most places say do not do this and I do not want to frighten our puppy, but we are having a similar issue we want to discourage (puppy almost 12 weeks old) but otherwise everything is going great.  [/quote]

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