Hi,
I have a 12 months small breed dog. The two major problems that I have with her is the nipping and jumping. She does these when she wants to have attention. I tried a lot of methods to make her stop but nothing works for her. I try to ignore her as you suggest in the book but it doesn't work. Every time that I tells her off (either by saying a sharp no, or ahhh, or making a noise) she starts barking back to me and then running like crazy for a couple of minutes. The last thing that I tried is to spray on to her with water. With this method I managed to stop her biting our feet. Now when I try to use the same method to solve the rest of the problems she is barking and running again.
I am very worried because my wife is pregnant and I am afraid if she won't stop nipping we are going to have a big problem when the newborn will come home.
