puppy bites

hi - i have a nine week old whippet and we are having trouble with
biting. i wouldn't be concerned really, except that her bites are
starting to hurt - a few have drawn small amounts of blood. i've tried
the "ouch!" method of giving an exaggerated cry of pain when she bites,
followed by isolation (me standing behind a puppy fence and ignoring
her), but it doesn't see to be doing much good. i know that she's just
a baby and (probably) isn't doing this maliciously, but i'm getting
frustrated and don't want to get upset at her.

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I would suggest trying something similar, but without the ouch. Reason
being, the puppy probably doesn't understand your word ouch, and so to
the puppy, it is just a reaction. The puppy might continue biting you
because it wants any form of reaction, because it doesn't know that
ouch is a bad reaction. What I would do, and it has been a long time
since I've been around puppies so I may be off on this, but I would
just ignore the puppy when it bites you. Start out playing with it or
whatever like normal, and as soon as it bites you, just ignore it.
Look away, turn around if you can, but don't make a big show of it,
just instantly stop paying any attention to it. Obviously you can't
actually not pay attention to the puppy because it can get in trouble
while you aren't paying attention, but you want the puppy to think you
are completely ignoring it. If the puppy has a high desire to have
attention from you it will try and get you to pay attention again.
Just wait a minute or so, the amount of time depends on the puppy. You
don't want it to lose focus on you and go find trouble, but you want it
to spend enough time trying to get you to pay attention to it that it
has enough time to make a connection between biting and no attention.
Obviously later on, when it is older and has some training in it, it
should know the meaning of some form of verbal correction, and you can
then use this as additional ammunition so to speak to get it to know it
shouldn't bite, if you have problems with biting when it is older, but
you shouldn't provided you are consistent with it as a puppy. My
American Staffordshire/Dogue de Bordeaux mix won't ever put any part of
my body in his mouth, furthermore, if I put my hand in his mouth, he
will spit it out. In my opinion, if your dog is not going to work in a
field which requires putting things in their mouth, such as retrieving,
this would be a good goal for all owners.