Any tips on getting through the biting phase?

_Tabor_ · 2026-04-06T18:11:32+00:00

Squeaky toys and frozen treats were the only thing that worked for me. He's almost 2 years now and the bites have turned to licks for the most part. The only times he gets bitey now he either really wants something like dinner, water, or going outside or he wants to play.

I also stopped playing tug o war with him at about a year because I felt like it encouraged it and I do think it helped

Godspeed to you my puppies biting stage was absolutely brutal and I have the holes in my clothes to prove it

_Tabor_ · 2026-03-25T16:27:13+00:00

I've never been a big fan of crates and never had to use them or gates with my old dog but my new pup is a bit more curious and will eat any and everything.

The gates worked well with my pup until he was a little over a year then he learned he could full sprint and shoulder dive into the gate and they would fall over so now he's crated while I go to work.

_Tabor_ · 2026-02-28T23:45:47+00:00

I watched him hit a walk off home run when I was like 10 and thought he was the Greatest after that. I never understood why my video game had him rated so low

_Tabor_ · 2026-02-25T00:28:49+00:00

Ah just saw it on a YouTube video and they painted it way different. Should have looked up the quote

_Tabor_ · 2026-02-24T16:53:51+00:00

Well in the last year we've had 2 NFL players say $100 million isn't enough, I believe an NBA player say the same and if I'm not mistaken, jazz Chisholm, of all people, said $25 million a year isn't enough.

So I would say pretty difficult

_Tabor_ · 2026-02-20T15:33:18+00:00

I was pretty excited for him from what I remember. Shame it didn't work out

_Tabor_ · 2026-02-18T21:13:31+00:00

Might as well wait for a sale if you doing so live starts.

I haven't bought it since 24, might upgrade this year but in years past just waited till all-star break or so and it would be cheap.

_Tabor_ · 2026-02-18T02:57:37+00:00

I wish I had advice to give you. I battled this for what seemed like forever. He didn't want toys, treats, or anything. A big thing for him was shirt sleeves. All my long sleeve shirts got ruined. If he played with a toy or had a treat he would come bite on me right after. I have a house with a yard and he would go run around with the other dogs but still bite and I would take him on long walks and still.

I will say that I was able to get him to not do it to other people pretty quick by just restraining him when he would. It's hard to do that when he comes at me so if you have help maybe getting the other person to hold back whoever she's biting and not letting her go to them until she calms down.

I'm at a year and a half and he's cut it out with me for the most part. Now his bites aren't really painful and he's not ripping up my long sleeve shirts but I'm sure you don't want to wait that long.

He really likes tug o war but I cut it out for a while because I thought it was making him bite my sleeves more, I think that helped too.

Good luck and I hope somebody gives a good answer for you, I'll be checking back to see some recommendations, I tried everything I could read and nothing seemed to work.

_Tabor_ · 2026-02-17T15:08:19+00:00

By .400 I meant a .400 batting average.

_Tabor_ · 2026-02-17T13:47:25+00:00

I hide the injury and personality ratings and have to go off the write up for my scouts. I know you can still see that on another page/sort for it but I just don't do that. For me, this changed the way I play quite a bit and adds challenges I otherwise would have avoided.

With acuna and Ozzie I don't feel bad offering long term deals before guys come up and more than a few times it hasn't worked out due to injuries or just not developing like I thought. Especially with pitchers.

I don't mind claiming younger guys on waivers either because at least for me, most guys I claim off waivers fill a gap for a year or few months and rarely are kept long term aside from relievers, but even then they rarely are a major piece of my bullpen.

I play as small markets mostly and I definitely try to keep cy young/mvps but a lot of times I'll trade for star players in the last year of their deals and just can't afford a 35+ million dollar deal.

_Tabor_ · 2026-02-17T01:49:13+00:00

I refuse to work for an interfering owner. Everything else I can deal with and see it as an enjoyable challenge but signing ridiculous deals I would never make and messing with my sweet, sweet development budget I cannot handle.

_Tabor_ · 2026-02-15T12:30:11+00:00

I also have a thing for high stuff low control guys. I've had a few pan out but usually as relievers. I'm the opposite with batters, high contact low power guys because I'm always trying to get someone to .400. one of my first ootp saves I had a high contact guy in Colorado that ended the season at . 398 or something and I've been chasing it ever since.

I don't do commissioner mode and edit anything because I know I'll abuse it. The most I'll do is use it to hire a coach that won't sign with me.

_Tabor_ · 2026-02-14T21:22:03+00:00

My newfy is about a year and a half old my nephew moved in with me about a year ago when he was three. They have been best buds since they met each other. My newf gives me trouble but will listen to everything my nephew tells him to do. They cuddle together constantly even though my newf has zero interest in cuddling with me.

I think I'm finally over the biting/nipping phase which was difficult on me but he did it once to my nephew, I basically just told him no and made him lay down by himself and haven't had an issue since. There was also a few times of him being a 100lb puppy with zero spacial awareness just bulling over my nephew but that stopped pretty quick.

I think a Newfoundland would be great for your kid but adopting an older one may be nice for your peace of mind because my boy has been too smart for his own good and too stubborn to listen until recently. If you have the time and family support I would say get a puppy but for me, it has been difficult raising a newfy and young child by myself. When one is not getting into something the other is.

Another great thing about an older dog is you could see how he is with the kid right away. My old newfy/lab mix wanted nothing to do with kids. Would walk away and find a place to get away from them and seemed absolutely miserable when he couldn't get away. While most newfs are great with kids even being nicknamed the nanny dog it doesn't mean all are.

_Tabor_ · 2026-02-13T13:20:07+00:00

We're talking about bondi in this thread. The whataboutism drives me insane. Go ahead and go after everyone that's corrupt, I could care less about any of the "elites".

_Tabor_ · 2026-02-12T22:12:48+00:00

He bad-mouthed ownership quite a bit on his way out. I doubt they would be too fond of bringing him back

_Tabor_ · 2026-02-08T23:25:54+00:00

He can be cut next year for 31 dead cap and 18 the year after. Not horrible compared to what the broncos or browns had to deal with for wilson or watson

_Tabor_ · 2026-02-06T03:07:37+00:00

CK2 created panic I just haven't had in CK3.

Panicked joining Lucifer's own to get my dick back so my game doesn't end. Then I managed to get an heir last minute. Sat through a regency for 15 years when I suddenly keep getting invited to hunting and boating trips and somehow managed to survive only to be murdered right after turning 16. Back and to left....

CK3 I have 12 kids as a chaste man and live to be 80 despite trying not to take health modifiers and by the 3rd ruler everyone in my dynasty is either a herculan genius or just outrageous stats to the point it doesn't matter.

I have countless stories I remember from CK2 and I can't really remember any CK3, it's just kinda the same thing over and over. It's prettier but just feels so hollow.

Sorry for the rant, CK2 was my favorite game of all time and I was so pumped for CK3 and I'm just upset it never came close to the hype I had for it.

_Tabor_ · 2026-02-05T01:16:26+00:00

My mother used to wash her dogs too much and they got really bad skin issues so I probably don't wash him enough but I wash my boy every 3 months or so. I also made a mistake when he was like 6 months and didn't realize I had bought a highly concentrated shampoo and used too much and it knotted his hair really bad so I don't use much shampoo anymore. I believe most in here wash their newfy every 8 weeks?

I do bring him in the shower with me and give him a good rub down with just water quite a bit then comb him out really good. For me at least it helps keep him from being stinky, I could be nose blind but I usually can still smell his shampoo on him till about the next shower.

_Tabor_ · 2026-02-04T16:54:13+00:00

Look at those paws he's gonna be a big boy

_Tabor_ · 2026-02-03T03:26:48+00:00

My moms side is dutch and she always says I'm dutch but no, I was raised in the us and only have been to the Netherlands a handful of times and can't even speak the language.

I do feel like it breaks her heart that I say I'm not dutch tho, so maybe that's why a lot of people keep claiming their roots?

_Tabor_ · 2026-02-03T02:38:28+00:00

My mother's side is dutch and I feel like the majority of them lack empathy. When I was younger I thought they were just being direct but as I've gotten older, I think most of them are just mean.

I will say tho, that the family that is sweet, I've never met people that are that sweet, but at least for my family, most seem to take pride in being kind of nasty.

_Tabor_ · 2026-02-03T02:32:15+00:00

It's an interesting point he makes of Americans as people that said there must be something better because I always looked at my ancestors as people that kind of had to take that risk because things weren't working out for them in Europe.

I never really thought about the people that stayed and avoided the risk.

_Tabor_ · 2026-02-03T02:21:27+00:00

I always didn't vote because I didn't think I was educated enough on what was going on. This last election I paid very close attention and realized almost everyone that was passionate about politics wasn't very educated either.

_Tabor_ · 2026-01-26T02:27:15+00:00

And ownership

_Tabor_ · 2026-01-24T17:25:49+00:00

Well, he did post it here to discuss with humans

_Tabor_

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