Everyone told you puppy biting is normal. No one warned you just how bad normal can be.
Introducing The Cockapoo Puppy Biting Toolkit
Because normal doesn't mean you have to just survive it.
Prevent it. Handle it. Fix it for good.
Written by Clair Hickson, COAPE Level 6 qualified behaviourist, the same qualification and professional register behind every 1:1 session I run.
Everyone told you puppy biting is normal. No one warned you just how bad normal can be.
Introducing The Cockapoo Puppy Biting Toolkit
Because normal doesn't mean you have to just survive it.
Prevent it. Handle it. Fix it for good.
Written by Clair Hickson, COAPE Level 6 qualified behaviourist, the same qualification and professional register behind every 1:1 session I run.
You didn't think loving a puppy this much and being scared of it could happen at the same time.
But here you are. Waiting and bracing every time you reach out to stroke it. Explaining the scratches on your hands, again, to someone at the school gate or in the vet's waiting room. Wondering - quietly, because it feels ridiculous to say out loud - if it's always your face that gets bitten because your puppy just doesn't like you.
You've tried the advice already. More sleep. More chews. Redirect to a toy. You've done all of it, and it's still happening, and some days it feels worse than the day you brought your puppy home.
Maybe the only thing that's worked is putting your puppy in the crate or the pen, and now you feel guilty for shutting away the one thing you love unconditionally.
Here's the truth: biting is one of the most normal, most misunderstood parts of raising a puppy. You haven't done anything wrong, and neither has your puppy.
But normal does not mean nothing can be done. And it definitely does not mean you have to just survive it until it passes.
You've probably been told to wait it out. Breeders, vets, well-meaning trainers, a hundred conflicting comments online — "they'll grow out of it." Maybe they will, eventually. But you don't have to spend the next six months bracing for the next bite while you wait and hope.
Somewhere along the way, you've probably started to believe the only way to actually stop it is to get harder — shout, smack, pick the puppy up roughly, bite back, reach for a rattle bottle or a spray bottle.
You won't find any of that in here. Not because it's "nicer" — because it doesn't teach a puppy anything except to be afraid of your hands. This toolkit exists because you shouldn't have to choose between being kind to your puppy and actually getting the biting to stop.
You can be both. That's the whole point.
What's inside the Puppy Biting Toolkit?
Right Now — exactly what to do in the moment your puppy is biting, so you're not frozen or firefighting, you're following something you already know.
Build It Out — four simple, science-based exercises that teach a genuinely gentler mouth over time. Practised little and often, not a bootcamp.
Quick-Check — a one-page checklist you can come back to any time you need it, instead of googling the same question again at 11pm.
Here's a taste of exactly how specific it gets — this is straight from the toolkit, not a summary of it:
"Hold one piece of food between your thumb and two forefingers. Present it to your puppy's nose. Wait for a gentle mouth — look for licking, or a slight step back. Let go and let your puppy take the food. Repeat with every meal. Why this works: your puppy learns that gentle gets the reward, every single time."
That's the level of detail in every tool. Not "be patient." Exactly what to do, in your hand, right now.
Ronnie's family had a puppy that was jumping and launching at faces every time they sat down in the living room in the evening. Relaxing and spending time as a family was impossible without Ronnie bouncing off the furniture and pulling on clothing.
Within four days of using this exact approach, Ronnie was lying calmly beside them, watching TV together and they never had to leave him in the kitchen on his own again.
This is the same methodology I use with every puppy I raise and every owner I work with — built on why puppies actually bite, not just how to make them stop, and backed by COAPE Level 6 qualified, ICAN-registered training, not guesswork.
WHAT CHANGES?
Not just less biting. What actually shifts:
You stop firefighting and start planning your day again — instead of bracing for whatever happens next, you know what to do before it happens.
You can pick your puppy up, brush it, or move it without dreading what happens next.
Visitors stay for the coffee, not just a quick, tense pop-in — because you're not on edge the whole time managing what might happen.
You get to enjoy your puppy again. Actually enjoy it — not just survive it until it's asleep.
And the next time someone stops you on a walk or in a cafe and says "wow, what a well-behaved puppy, they're so calm" — you'll know exactly what you did to get there.
What The Puppy Biting Toolkit Isn't
- a full training programme
- hours of video to get through
- a fix that needs to be perfect to work
- another "more sleep and more chew toys" article you've already read a dozen times
The Puppy Biting Toolkit is £9 — less than a round of coffees, for something you can start usingÂ
 in the next five minutes.
If you've worked through it and nothing's shifted within a week, message me and I'll refund you. No question asked.
