Dog Health Questions: How to stop my dog from jumping up and bite my clothes and hands from over excitement?

My 4 months old puppy likes to jump up to bite my clothes and bite my hands, and it really hurts! She leave tiny holes on my clothes or sometimes a few cm rip. I tried ignoring her and avoid eye contact like in the dog training book says but she bite my pants and tug it instead. I say no and shove her away but she still jump back up more furious each time. I tried kneeing her in the chest but she also did the same. Please help, I'm at the end of the rope here :(

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Consistently give a high-pitched yelp "ow!" the instant her teeth touch you, turn your back and go off and find something else to do, ignoring her for 10 minutes or so. She can't jump back more furious if you are going away from her. Be patient; you will get results but it won't happen overnight.

Don't slap her. ANY IDIOT can hit dogs in order to control them. Don't shove her, she will only perceive that as an invitation to play rougher...or worse, it will make her combative.

Even after she learns to control her bite, she might still jump on you. In that case, turn to the side and walk calmly but deliberately into her (toward her) which sends a message that you are in charge of your "space". Walking into her will affect her balance a little bit, like kneeing her in the chest, but not so violently.

Edit: If you must spray your dog, don't spray her in the face. Jeez, you could put out her eye like that.

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• Hopefully your dog will grow out of it. You can read all the books you want about dog training, but some dogs are just stubborn. My dog is still doing this at a year old. Don't hit the dog, it'll make it worse. The best thing you can do is manage it and hope she'll stop doing it.
  When she does this, tell her to sit. Hopefully she'll sit.
  The best way is to distract her with something. Find a toy and throw it. She just wants to play.


• An innate canine impulse, jumping up serves two purposes for dogs: it's a way to show excitement, and it allows for an up close and personal sniff of scent glands in the human face. Combine the two--your pup's excited you're home from work and craves a whiff of your natural aroma--and the result is one jumpy dog.
  
  Here's a treatment for jumping up http://tinyurl.com/5ov3wb
  And here's for biting http://tinyurl.com/5hqnde


• Make leaving and coming home completely unemotional. When you leave do not acknowledge her, and when you come home ignore and walk away from her until she is calm, then pet and greet her. She views your leaving as an unwanted occurrence, so is eager to please you when she gets home. Show her that the way you wished to be greeted is by a calm dog. It wont happen overnight, but she is young and should pick this up quickly. Good luck!!


• LOL saying no and pushing her away is not ignoring her!!
  
  Do you have a dog crate/cage? get one! get her used to it - and teach her to only come out when calm.
  
  Also teach her to sit - it's VITAL and as Dr Dunbar (dog trainer) says - when a dog is sitting it can't be doing anything else!
  
  Use a food reward - get her to sit before anything she wants, doors opened, walks, pats, food etc.
  
  Ensure she has LOTS of exercise each day. (what breed is she?)
  
  As a last resort try a water spray with lemon in her face - but that's nasty and I'd try to not use that.


• What you are doing seems like a game to her.
  When she bites, give her a sharp slap (not too hard) on her nose (a sensitive part of the dog's anatomy) and shout NO! or BAD!
  It's all in the tone of voice.


• You can send him to dog obedience classes or refer to dog training videos in http://www.dogexpertreveal.com


• Keep a 4 foot leash on your puppy and when she goes to jump step on the leash, it should only take a few times of doing this before she gets it.


• a spray water bottle in her face every time she jumps up!