Shannon
10-19-2000, 07:00 PM
Hello,
My 7 month old Dobe has a kissing problem. She greets everyone (humans) with licking their hands, face etc... I have been at curbing this habbit since she was a puppy as her licking if left unattended and not curbed leads to mouthing too. I have tried the "no lick" command and hold her mouth closed. That does little go, I have given leash corrections, I have tried to teach her to meet people with her tongue in her mouth by saying no licks before she can touch them. She is very oral like a lab. She is extremely well socialized. She comes to work with me daily to a nursing home. She has completed basic obedience training and excells. However, this licking thing has me stumped. She rarely does it to me, but, everyone else is fair game in her opinion. Many of the nursing home residents find it offensive and many like it. Short of dousing everyone in bitter apple I am at a loss. I do not want to make corrections everytime she meets someone as she may correlate meeting new people with negativity.
Please help if you can.
Thank you,
Shannon
My 7 month old Dobe has a kissing problem. She greets everyone (humans) with licking their hands, face etc... I have been at curbing this habbit since she was a puppy as her licking if left unattended and not curbed leads to mouthing too. I have tried the "no lick" command and hold her mouth closed. That does little go, I have given leash corrections, I have tried to teach her to meet people with her tongue in her mouth by saying no licks before she can touch them. She is very oral like a lab. She is extremely well socialized. She comes to work with me daily to a nursing home. She has completed basic obedience training and excells. However, this licking thing has me stumped. She rarely does it to me, but, everyone else is fair game in her opinion. Many of the nursing home residents find it offensive and many like it. Short of dousing everyone in bitter apple I am at a loss. I do not want to make corrections everytime she meets someone as she may correlate meeting new people with negativity.
Please help if you can.
Thank you,
Shannon