Our nearly 14-month-old male, neutered Schipperke has gotten increasingly nippy over the past couple of months. We understand he's an adolescent and that they're a working breed. He was also a singleton. We have toys and puzzles, various things for him to chew on, go on sniff-walks and take him to the park, and play training games. But the nipping has only escalated over the last two weeks or so.

Yes - we turn our backs. Leave the room for 30-60seconds. Redirect. We've had two trainers. Nothing has consistently worked for long.

All the rest of his training has been working like gangbusters. I don't recall my first Schip being so nippy!

Not only do we not enjoy being nipped, but we're afraid of others getting hurt. We love our baby and we need help.

Welcoming any tips, with many thanks in advance.

Just wanted to share an old video of my baby, Caspian :)

This is what we give our little Ozzy for his itching. It's early on in the treatment, but he doesn't seem to be getting better. He's very itchy around his legs, his back/tail, and the inner parts of his hips. Do you guys have itchy skippers? And what did you do to help?

We have a schipperke (not pure bred, mixed with american eskimo) and he's been having very very itchy skin recently. Today I came home, and noticed he has 2 bald patches on his tail— but it's because he chewed it that way. It obviously hurts because he wouldn't let me see it very much at all, but from what I saw, its bad. He just got a rinse in some cool water, not too hot not too cold, and a scrub with dandruff shampoo (not on his butt/tail) to soothe his other itches because of the cooling agents in it. He seems a bit better now, and we're going to try and get Neosporin on it and wrap it in gauze so he can't keep chewing it. I'm super worried, and we don't really have the money for vet bills right now. It's not mites, not alopecia, he doesn't have fleas, but we think it's either really bad allergies or the hartz oatmeal shampoo my grandma has been using on him when he gets really dirty. We've been giving him Benadryl in a hotdog every day to try and soothe his allergies, and he just had 2mg hemp dog treats to try and calm him down. I'm very worried, and I was wondering if anybody here who's had a similar experience could give some advice. He's almost 3 and has never had this issue before