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This worked for me. I have a friend who is a vet and she concurs but make sure you ask your own vet.
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This is all good advice (I have a two yr old golden so similar problems...)
Two overlooked pieces of advice..
1. Encourage biting of acceptable things...but...
2. DON'T play tug of war. (its ok for many dogs but not retrievers)
3. Encourage licking. A lot of the time the puppy just wants to taste you (knaw mean! omgrollo!!11@) so if you make a big to-do over hand licking instead ( And say the same thing every time: Licking is good, good dog!) they'll make the change form bite to lick on command.