needing help with a puppy nipping hard on a kid

Our dog of 11 and was a mutt, just died in August. She was such an easy and submissive dog.

We fell in love with a Shib Inu at Petland and bought him after visiting him 7 times over the course of a month. We just bought him on Saturday. He is 14 weeks old. He is responding beautifully for the most part. He submitts very quickly to me. He potty trained the first day and he does not mind the crate at all. He sleeps just perfectly in it and I put him in about every hour for rest time.

We have 4 kids aged 11-16. Todd ( Shiba) seems to be aggressively going after my 11 year old. He is almost playing, but he instigates action with her as harder nipping and I think he is trying to dominate her.

WE have been watching the Dog Whisperer this week and applying a lot of it, but it is NOT puppy training. I did jsut order his Mastering Leadership training with 4 disks and he talks a lot about puppy training in these. I cant wait to get them.

My question is whether I should get invloved when he is going after her, or let her handle it. I want Todd to submit to her and she holds him down with the claw hand, like Cesaer says to do. But, Todd screams and thrashes and bites her hands when she is doing this. I need to step in and get him to stop, but I fear that he wont learn to submit to HER! If I get involved is that okay? Will he still learn to submit to HER? It seems like the only attention he gets with her is all negative. I try to have her pet him when he is calm, but he immediatley starts trying to grab her wrist with his mouth.

Any help would be great.

Adrienne

Have you tried putting Todd in time out? Whenever he bites her and wont stop put him in time out, if he comes out and does it again he goes right back in time out, every time you put him back leave him there a little longer. Eventually he'll get the message. Shiba's hate to be ignored.
You could also put "bitter apple" on her if he doesn't like the taste he might stop nipping her.