Golden Retrievers QLD Australia - Pascoe Kennels

22/05/2026

🐾 PUPPY BITING 🐾

🐾What most owners misunderstand about puppy biting

Your puppy starts biting, you react, they bite more.

Here is why.
Biting is not aggression. It is communication.

Over-tired? They lose impulse control. Nap fixes it.

Over-aroused? Play escalated. They cannot stop, so you have to end the activity.

Teething? Mouth hurts. Soothe their gums with a frozen carrot or a frozen washcloth.

Learned? You reacted. That was all the attention they needed to learn biting works. You have to walk away (and yes it is hard in the moment!)

What not to do: Yell, push them away or punish after the fact. They cannot connect it.

What works: Diagnose the why. Respond to the need.

20/05/2026

Life is perfect with a pinch of gold 🐾🐾🐾 and maybe a oversized sprinkler

19/05/2026

🐾You think your puppy is high energy. They are not. They are over-tired.

🐾You try to tire them out, with longer walks,and more play, and it just gets worse.

🐾Here is why. The exhaustion trap.

When a puppy stays awake too long, stress hormones (cortisol) build up. Those hormones do not make them sleepy. They make them wired, hyper and bitey.
So you add more exercise, and guess what that does? It raises cortisol even more. Now you have a puppy who looks like they need a marathon but actually needs a nap.

What they need is a quiet space. Darkness, no stimulation, twenty minutes of sleep.

The bite pressure clue. When over-tired, the part of their brain that controls impulse shuts down. The mouth gets harder, they are not being bad, they cannot help it.

If your puppy’s biting gets worse as the day goes on, that is not aggression, that is exhaustion.

The settling problem. Their body is exhausted and their brain will not stop. They want to sleep but cannot get there alone, they pace, they pant, they whine.

They need you to enforce the nap. Put them in a quiet space. No words. No eye contact. Let them figure it out with you nearby.

The test. Tomorrow, when your puppy goes crazy, do not add a walk. Add a nap. Twenty minutes.

The truth: Most “high energy” puppies are just over-tired. A 20-minute nap changes everything.

Nap first.

18/05/2026

They start so small, take me to this point so I can soak up all the love 🐾🐾

15/05/2026

Puppies under 6 months, they have not had time to learn to be alone. Separation anxiety is not the same as missing you and feeling lonely. Being Alone is a skill. Great information from “Training Canines”.

09/05/2026

09/05/2026

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May Puppyschool & Obedience !

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03/05/2026

Puppy spam

21/04/2026

Could they be any cuter…. I think not 🐾🐾🐾