Reply #46: Dogs "pack" [View All]

[sweetheart]

My well-trained dogs lose the plot entirely when they're in a group.
Then they bite playfully at my ankles and if i'm petting 1, another
will come and want to be petted too, and sometimes the second one will
gently nibble my hand or the other dog to get petted too.

Biting is a form of expression for a dog, not painfully to injure, but
playfully to engage, happily to say hi and just being cheekey... and
if they bite me hard, i bite them on the nose back so they get the
message if it hurts.

But dogs will behave like a pack when in pack, as the call of their own
genetics is for all the training in the world, difficult for them when
they're with their kin.