Need help with "mouthy" pup, one other ?

[gritsar]

Our german shepherd pup, Jax, is doing well with his housebreaking. He walks well on his leash. He knows what "go to bed" means and heads right into his crate without a fuss.
The problem we're having is that he's "mouthy". When he gets excited he starts biting at our feet and the back of our legs.
We tell him no twice and then send him to his kennel if he continues. Is this the best way to handle it?
In alot of ways he's like a two year old human child. He gets overstimulated when he's tired and starts going from one "no" to another until we send him to his crate for a time-out. Once in the crate he goes right to sleep and when he wakes up he's well behaved again.

Also, we are feeding him Iams dry food for large breed puppies and mixing it with pedigree lamb and rice canned food for puppies. He gets a total of 5 cups of the dry and 1/2 cup of canned per day. The bags/cans of food recommend 3 1/2 to 4 cups total per day. Jax is cleans up his bowl at each feeding, so I don't feel like we are overfeeding him?

 

[FlashPointFarm]

I give my dogs one chance. One sharp "no" and I clap my hands at them. If they don't listen, they don't get to hang out with us. Period. Your pup will get it, eventually. Try a spray bottle with water. If that doesn't sway him, add a little vinegar.

With a brand new puppy in the house, I usually wear a small water bottle on my jean's pocket.

 

[gritsar]

Forgot to mention. He's 15 weeks old today. He has plenty of chew toys, tennis balls, nylabones for teething pups, rubber squeakies, etc.

 

[OlliOlliOlli]

I very lightly grab my Rottie's snoot and press down gently shaking his head going "NO." Not enough to cause pain but enough to make him aware of his gumming. He grabbed my ankle and my calf, so I really have to curb this behavior.

 

[thebritt]

I've kept a toy handy. I say, "NO BITING!" and put it in the pup's mouth, saying, "Get your toy. GOOD BOY!". When I say "NO BITING!" I fold the pup's upper lip under so that he feels the sharpness of his teeth, then immediately put the toy in his mouth, so he knows what he CAN bite. It's always worked for us. We have 6 dogs.

 

[Brindlebtch]

I do what thebritt does. My dogs get no chances to mouth me, they get a correction on the first one and then a toy to show them what they can chew on. My dogs are not allowed to put their mouth on me. Everything else they get one chance.

Watch out he doesn't swallow pieces of the squeaky toys. My dogs can tear up rubber and latex in no time, but then I have AmStaffs.

Watch out that he doesn't get slab fractures on his molars from the nylabones. Once again this may be an AmStaff thing.

My dogs will pop tennis balls in 1/2 and start ripping them up. You don't want him to swallow pieces.

Dog food bags usually tell you the max amount to feed and in my experience if you feed the amount recommended your dog will get fat. I fed the recommended amount to my first puppy and she got amazingly rotund. I wouldn't feed more than the recommended amount and probably less. If your pup gets too very fat it can put unnecessary strain on his joints causing joint problems down the line.

 

[Zahboo]

With my pup, we tell him no and LIGHTLY pinch his ear, just as a sibling pup would do. I don't believe in biting my dog like some do, but a pinch simulates it. He's almost stopped biting. Our biggest problem is he sleeps in his basket. If he wakes up, he is supposed to, and normally does whine to go potty, but our small dog jumped in his basket and back out so now he climbs out. When he is on the side we say NUHUH NAPTIME and he sits down and whines

 

[gritsar]

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We bought this squeaky toy that I had never seen before. They are rubber on the outside and foam filled. He adores it. He'll squeak it for (what seems like) hours and whines everytime it squeaks. It's funny and annoying at the same time. The nylabones we got are specifically for teething puppies. He's gone thru a couple already because as directed on the package we are taking them away when he chews off the knuckles.
Thanks for the advice. We are watching him closely with his food and toys. It would be devastating if anything happened to this pup.
We have started yelping like a pup would when he bites and then ignoring him. It seems to be working so far.

Other than the play biting he's doing great. Such a smart pup.

 

[Brindlebtch]

Aren't pups great? I'm sure yours is just gonna be Einstein!

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

I do the good ole hand smack. He's biting...I smack his nose. Don't have a single one that bites out of 5 dogs.