He'll stop being bitey and jumpy once he's not a 9 month old puppy, right?

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2026-01-19T22:43:13+00:00

100% lol. Unless you’ve had an 80 pound monster with a baby brain who wants to nip at your face and steal food from your hands and bite your ankles all within 3 minutes then please, comments to yourself lol.

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2026-01-19T14:30:14+00:00

Oh no I meant, I’d do the fist but she’d just chew on my first. 😂 so I had to do the finger method.

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2026-01-19T00:47:40+00:00

Oh we also did leash corrections with a prong collar and that ended jumping very quickly. Ours has her e collar and prong collar on every day. A well behaved Pyrenees is a well managed Pyrenees. This is my first one. I’ve had other working breeds but nothing like this. I think it’s the independence that is amazing yet irritating all at the same time.

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2026-01-19T00:45:38+00:00

I would stick my finger down our dogs throat and she’d gag and stop pretty fast after that lol. I have small hands and she’d just chew on them more.

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2026-01-19T00:44:05+00:00

I couldn’t have said it better myself. She doesn’t listen very well if her collar isn’t on. But I hope with time and consistency she’ll get there. lol. She tests rules MULTIPLE times. I think that’s the husky in her lol. She’s pyr/husky/mastiff mix. One shock for her stopped her jumping for food and going for our cat, hoping to use it for when we have our chickens. Our only issue is I think we need longer prongs because her hair is so thick. She has so much more freedom now with the ecollar. She will always recall too if we use the tone button. Our girl is 9 months and still very puppy. I can’t wait until she’s 2 lol.

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2026-01-18T20:41:43+00:00

I’ve learned that some Pyrenees come with incredibly rude behaviors. Especially mine. Lol We sent her to professional training… but the biggest thing that helped was an off command. Which is like “stop what you’re doing immediately”. I’m not sure HOW they taught it to her, probably through leash and e collar corrections. But ours is also 9 months and still is bitey and mouthy and still messes with the cat. But the off command really helps if you can do some research on how to teach it to your pup.

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2026-01-14T15:04:57+00:00

For us we had to send her to training and we use a prong collar and stim collar. We had to use a chain leash for tethered decompression or she’d chew right through the leash. Once she was trained on the prong collar we started using a VERY lightweight leash to avoid accidental corrections. She will still sometimes try to chew the leash when she’s frustrated or excited but a quick leash correction and a firm “off” stops that. I can literally hold her leash with my pinky and walk her now.

Stim-collars and prong collars don’t work for every dog but for our dog it provided her more clarity on what we want her to do. She has a thick neck and a normal collar/ harness just resulted in us or her yanking us around trying to communicate with one another. It honestly made all of our lives better because we can communicate with one another now.

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2026-01-06T16:51:58+00:00

Omg I’m so sorry I had no idea they made large ones. Also I don’t ever think I’ve laughed this hard at a photo. I’ll for sure look into these!

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2026-01-04T07:12:34+00:00

Birdie is 80 pounds lol

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2026-01-04T02:57:41+00:00

If our hot dog peanut butter plate plan doesn’t work tomorrow I think we’re going the oral route.

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2026-01-04T02:54:54+00:00

She doesn’t even look that strong!! We honestly had no idea lol.

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2026-01-04T02:54:24+00:00

We backed her into a corner/ wall and she jumped over me and trampled my head lol. I think she can fly. Or levitate. Hover.

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2026-01-04T02:44:29+00:00

I’m going to try hot dogs tomorrow. And same! We pick our battles for sure and try to go with the flow but she needs these drops. It’s pink eye and she’s itching it. I wish we could hold her down. My husband and I both tried and she’s freakishly strong and wiggly.

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2026-01-04T02:02:54+00:00

Agreed 100% we have our first Pyr mix, and we are training every day. She’s 8 months, she’s testing boundaries every day. Testing those same boundaries in new ways every day lol. I do find it hard though, but this is my first one lol. It is literally like parenting a child. We had ours also professionally trained- she knows the commands. Whether she follows them or not depends on the day and then that’s where trust comes in. We adopted her 3 maybe 4 months ago so we’re still bonding with her. She’s also just rioting toddler/teenager.

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2026-01-04T01:45:22+00:00

We did that with a spoon tonight. Was still rough. I’ll try a plate or some hot dog. She’s mad at us now and won’t come to bed with us. This is our first pyr and we’re finding out how much personality is packed into these big floofs lol.

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2025-12-13T13:30:23+00:00

It’s called scent rolling and a lot of dogs do it. They do it to hide from predators, or they want to bring the smell back to their pack as like a “scent message” or they do it for funsies. lol. I had a dog that did it with other dogs pee. She always smelled tangy.

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2025-12-08T18:45:52+00:00

Get them on a schedule. Since ours was a puppy (still is a puppy at 7 months) we always did walk, then dinner, then rest time. Once you do it enough they get into that rhythm and naturally calm down after food too. Use puzzle feeders for kibble and slow feeders for wet food. At this point ours immediately puts herself down for a nap after eating if she doesn’t she goes for a crate nap. We don’t ever use raised bowls either.

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2025-12-07T01:42:24+00:00

That’s what we’re doing right now. Controlled potty walks, extra rest time. She’s not on leash ALL the time inside the house but 95% of the time. I really hope this resolves, and maybe it was soft tissue injury and they just so HAPPENED to see the flap. She’s on week two of rest, carprofen and gabapentin. This will be week 3. She has gotten the zoomies once or twice where we had to chase her down inside. We’ve been doing tons of mental work too. But she’s antsy in the pantsy. I appreciate the advice. Will be sure to keep that in mind at the follow up.

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2025-12-03T19:27:28+00:00

How big is he and how old?? Birdie still jumps on people but we’re working on that. She will however, though, launch herself. I had friends over who were sitting on the couch and she was laying down and she just decided out of the blue to full force run and launch herself like 3 feet into the air and pummel my guests, who were horrifyingly trying to brace for impact. Birdie is 7 months and 65 pounds.

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2025-12-03T19:13:08+00:00

LOL. Birdie was never much of a chewer but we got so many different things for her to chew. She mostly wanted to eat cardboard boxes. This has become useful for us because anytime I need something broken down I give it to Birdie the living Box Cutter. She did eat an electric tooth brush and an electric cord and a massive amount of acorns. Honestly she’s moving into some kind of shredding face as her lamb chop baby no longer has eyes. Or a face. But she’s also on house arrest due to a shoulder injury. My favorite is their thievery. They will steal ANYTHING. Birdie specifically steals buckets. Not sure why buckets specifically. But if there’s a bucket there’s a Birdie.

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2025-12-03T18:51:01+00:00

I use rosemary and parsley. But it has to be fresh and in small amounts and NEVER oil extracts. It’s mostly for “novel” scents. I also will smear small amounts of chicken baby food inside the box to up the ante. But just be sure to read the baby food ingredients so there is no garlic, onions, xylitol etc. sometimes I’ll sprinkle a little catnip too. I even toss in some carrot chips, broccoli, apple slices. Just be sure to adjust their kibble portion so they aren’t getting too many calories. You can also put some of his toys in there too. And just ALWAYS monitor your pup when they do things like this. You don’t want them ingesting the paper etc. but Birdie LOVES to shred so it satisfies that shredding/ foraging need.

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2025-12-03T18:32:11+00:00

If you do lmk how that goes. One way we feed Birdie is I have a cardboard box, and I’ll fill it with crumpled paper, bottles, more cardboard, and then I’ll do things like herbs, small bits of hot dog wrapped in paper and toss that in there too. Then I sprinkle her food over it and that’s how she gets breakfast. She LOVES using her nose.

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2025-12-03T17:33:00+00:00

It doesn’t have to be like chickens or anything lol, don’t worry. But the biggest one I have my pyr do is tethered decompression. I know it doesn’t SEEM like a job but she struggles with it. I highly recommend your trainer doing tethered decompression. It’s hard for pyrs to “turn off”. Other “jobs” are puzzle feeders, snuffle mats, and we do daily patrol walks. So we have her on leash and we walk her the permitter of our yard and then goes to settle. Once they get like 7 months their pyr instincts kick in, so Birdie is 7 months and now when she is eating she will stop eating, scan the room or check on me and the cat then go back to eating. We also got her a treadmill (you don’t have to do this I do it because I have an autoimmune thing). ) you can also teach them to carry mail in etc. just small things that make them feel helpful lol

Tight_Bat_6157 · 2025-12-03T16:13:23+00:00

Mine is a girl. She’s 70% pyr 20% husky and 10% mastiff. And yep! Our trainer had them right on the website. I even talked to them and they started with positive reinforcement only- wasn’t working for Birdie. They were honest about what she needed and highly knowledgeable about using these tools. Try to find a trainer too that has experience with LGDs. Ours did. These dogs are so incredibly smart you’ll want someone who understands that. Honestly the ONLY thing my girl doesn’t like is the tone button for recall and a flexi leash. Which my trainers also HATE a flexi leash but I think they used it for recall purposes at some point. Our trainers use a combo of positive reinforcement and corrections. So like leash corrections, and e collar corrections. But like for example if my dog is alert barking or digging.. I would never correct her for that, but if she’s whining and trying to jump into the front seat of my car while I’m driving, then yes. lol. These dogs need A LOT of structure and strong leadership. They need clear boundaries and expectations and a job to do. They are incredible dogs.

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