7 week old cocker spaniel pekingese playing to rough!

Hi
I have a 7 week old cockengese who is very sweet but when she starts playing she will start growling very mean sounding everyone thinks shes attacking me when they hear it...but shes not her tail is wagging and shes playing but when she starts growling she bites and she bites VERY hard, she even brings blood. I dont know what to do ?

 

Do what her littermates would be doing if she were still with them. When she gets too carried away with her play and bites hard, yell OUCH and push her away. Ignore her attempts to engage you in further play until she calms herself, even if that means you have to crate her or put her in another room. As soon as she realizes "If you can't play nice you can't play at all" is the name of the game, she'll control herself.

This is the reason more and more educated breeders are not placing puppies until they're older. Puppies need the socialization they get from their mom and littermates to learn, among other things, how to inhibit their play to a more socially acceptable level.

 

This is my favorite article on teaching bite inhibition: http://www.jersey.net/~mountaindog/berner1/bitestop.htm.

Go read it and do what it says.