One reason why not to feed your pup a treat. Graphic Image.

My children were playing tug of war with Scarlet and my wife decided to give her a small piece of chicken. Scarlet did say sorry and my wife realises it was her fault LOL. It took 5 trips to the hospital to have the dressing changed as they could not stitch a dog bite for it to heal from the inside out.

Ouch

Please keep that one within the forum or we'll have the " vicious staffy" brigade crowing.

ouch!!

ouch!

Hi Reuben - There is no such thing as a vicious staffy. I have had staffs as pets for over 20yrs and this is the 1st playfull nip any of us have had. I was walking my dog last year and a little girl stopped me with her mother to smooth my dog. Bonny stood with her tail wagging like mad as the girl smoothed her. The mother said what a nice dog and she asked what breed it was. I told her a staff. She told the little girl to come away from the dog as they were very vicious. What an idiot. I should have told her a yorkshire terrier and it then it would have been okay for her girl to smooth Bonny.

I remember when Tank was 9weeks, he picked up a piece of Lego my son had left on the floor, so my instinct was to open his mouth n take it out ! But at 9wks old a pups instinct is to bite n nibble anything in his mouth, he caught my finger with his back teeth ! It hurt a great deal lol and lots if blood !
Totally my fault. These days tho if either of my 2 pick something up I can open their mouth n retrieve it with np at all.

Ooooo savage puppy, sharp little toothies

OUCH that does look sore >< Hope it's healing well

Tip from me , this is where the command "nicely" or "gently" comes in well

When I first got Moo she had a terrible habit of going for the toy at the same time. Needless to say many a cut to the hand. All was fine until she did it to my brother, out of pure excitement as I had trained her out of it. Now they think she will just bite them that was 3 years ago!

Hope it heals soon Xxx

Ouch! I hope it heals fast.

Dave wrote:Tip from me , this is where the command "nicely" or "gently" comes in well

Lol, I learned to teach this command as quickly as possible.

looks very nasty

Ow!

OUCH! Loki still snatches treats sometimes, but his teeth aren't sharp enough to break my skin...certainly not like that. Wow.

Kelley wrote:Hi Reuben - There is no such thing as a vicious staffy. I have had staffs as pets for over 20yrs and this is the 1st playfull nip any of us have had. I was walking my dog last year and a little girl stopped me with her mother to smooth my dog. Bonny stood with her tail wagging like mad as the girl smoothed her. The mother said what a nice dog and she asked what breed it was. I told her a staff. She told the little girl to come away from the dog as they were very vicious. What an idiot. I should have told her a yorkshire terrier and it then it would have been okay for her girl to smooth Bonny.

I know Kelley, but that doesn't stop the prejudice amongst the uninitiated. I was being facetious.

Ouch

We just got Jango yesterday, we were playing with him and he accidentally had his mouth around my partners hand, as soon as he realised it was a hand he moved his head away. He then nipped a little later on but nothing at all even painful. He is more of a licker than anything. Which would be great but he has a bit of a stinky breath issue right now haha.