u/Useful_Grand5184

I (19, F) have a 3 year old Shih Tzu/Bichon Frise mix. He's bit me before, but it was when he was a puppy and he never broke skin. It was my fault because I grabbed him in a way that I never grabbed him before, but I didn't think he would bite me.

Tonight, I was exercising in the living room for the first time in a while and he stepped on my new mat. He scratched up my old mat and had a couple of accidents on it when he was a puppy, so this time I tried to tell him to stay off the mat. It was a new command for him, but he kept walking on it and sitting on it, so I picked him up and placed him on the floor. The first time I picked him up I think he thought it was a game, so he sat on the mat again. The second time I picked him up I grabbed a little bit too low (my right hand was on his ribs like normal but my left hand was below them) and he bit my left wrist. When he bit me in the past, he used to just snip at me but this time he growled and held on for longer. Like his top teeth basically grazed my hand and I have two bloody punctures from his bottom teeth and one from his top (3 level 3 bites I think).

I know it was because he was in pain, but after I yelled at him because I don't want him biting anyone else. My mom's always had some anxiety with dogs which is why we got a little one, but since he bit me so hard she wants to give him away. I'm in college right now and she just went back to in-person working about a year ago and she's talked about how hard it is taking care of him before but I'm not ready to give him away.

I've always wanted a dog when I was a kid and now that he's mine, I don't want to give him away. He's always been really good at listening and following directions and he's never been violent. Even when he bit in the past it was always when he was playing and he stopped doing that pretty easily. My mom's not gonna support him going to a trainer and I don't really have the money for that anyway, so I want to learn how to fix this while I'm home this summer but I don't know what to do.

I (19, F) have a 3 year old Shih Tzu/Bichon Frise mix. He's bit me before, but it was when he was a puppy and he never broke skin. It was my fault because I grabbed him in a way that I never grabbed him before, but I didn't think he would bite me.

Tonight, I was exercising in the living room for the first time in a while and he stepped on my new mat. He scratched up my old mat and had a couple of accidents on it when he was a puppy, so this time I tried to tell him to stay off the mat. It was a new command for him, but he kept walking on it and sitting on it, so I picked him up and placed him on the floor. The first time I picked him up I think he thought it was a game, so he sat on the mat again. The second time I picked him up I grabbed a little bit too low (my right hand was on his ribs like normal but my left hand was below them) and he bit my left wrist. When he bit me in the past, he used to just snip at me but this time he growled and held on for longer. Like his top teeth basically grazed my hand and I have two bloody punctures from his bottom teeth and one from his top (3 level 3 bites I think).

I know it was because he was in pain, but after I yelled at him because I don't want him biting anyone else. My mom's always had some anxiety with dogs which is why we got a little one, but since he bit me so hard she wants to give him away. I'm in college right now and she just went back to in-person working about a year ago and she's talked about how hard it is taking care of him before but I'm not ready to give him away.

I've always wanted a dog when I was a kid and now that he's mine, I don't want to give him away. He's always been really good at listening and following directions and he's never been violent. Even when he bit in the past it was always when he was playing and he stopped doing that pretty easily. My mom's not gonna support him going to a trainer and I don't really have the money for that anyway, so I want to learn how to fix this while I'm home this summer but I don't know what to do.