re: My dog bit me and broke the skin today (EDIT: pic in OP)

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And what is the bigger problem here? 

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The lack of punching the dog is receiving.

Your dog shouldn't be sleeping in the bed with you and your wife.

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Armytiger87

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My dog bit me and broke the skin today

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he is still in bed with my sleeping wife

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I'm going to give you solid information. But it's up to you to actually work with your dog to implement it. And it won't be just a once or twice a week type training. This needs to be done daily, for about 10 minutes per day. Always end on a positive note and never use negative reinforcement for disciplinary reasons, i.e. kicking, punching, rubbing, etc. as some have suggested in this thread.

Before giving food, treats, or toys to your dog, ensure he recognizes that you are the owner — not him. The same applies for your bed or any piece of furniture that your dog is claiming as his. In my opinion, based upon only what you have written, you have given him too much space too soon. He hasn't done anything to "earn" it so to speak.

One tactic for asserting ownership is to have your dog wait before accessing his food or belongings, including jumping into bed with you. Stand over the food bowl on the side of your bed confidently, and do not allow him to run or jump for it until he has sat and waited patiently for your permission.

You also need to teach your dog what "leave" means. For instance, I keep it simple with my dog. Anything she does bad is "off." Doesn't matter what it is. "Off" is a word that she understands and then I am able to redirect her to something else. Don't over-complicate it with too many words. "Off" works.

Call out the command “off”, hold out a treat, and redirect his possessiveness to let let go of the item in possession (food, toy, bed, etc.) and walks towards you.

Reward him with the treat for his obedience, and remove the item as quickly as possible.

Do this enough times and he will understand the word "off" quickly and view it as something positive.

One other tip. For now, since you don't have control over your dog and he is the alpha, approach him sideways or backing your back up against him and/or bed while giving the command "off" when he is in bed. Your less likely to get bitten, because he won't be viewing you as a challenge or threat.

Over time, as your dog matures and you understand your dog better, you can work on hand signals without having to verbally communicate to get what you want out of your dog. It takes a while, but it works.

kill it

He doesn't think you're the boss and you shouldn't have allowed it to escalate to him biting you. We had a mini schnauzer when we brought our infant daughter home. Great dog. Jim was his name. Anyways that first night we're fawning over our baby girl and Jim decides he doesn't like that and starts growling at her. I slapped him across the snout real hard. He understood completely. Never had another problem and he would tolerate all kinds of bullshite from the kid from that point forward.

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We the let the dog sleep with us in bed at night so when I get up, he is still in bed with my sleeping wife.

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Let the stupid dog sleep on the floor

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. Anyways that first night we're fawning over our baby girl and Jim decides he doesn't like that and starts growling at her. I slapped him across the snout real hard. He understood completely. Never had another problem and he would tolerate all kinds of bullshite from the kid from that point forward.

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same here. one of mine growled when my little one was crawling towards her bowl of food, which i'd expect, but I was watching and waiting for it. Popped her for it, then I did the same thing to her several times, even took food out of her bowl. From then on, never a problem. I also got my kids to give them treats, and we always make them sit and wait for their treats until we say OK, then they can take the treat. They still usually wait for me to actually say OK, which is hilarious b/c they do that with my wife as well. It's like they think someone is tricking them b/c they know they need my approval.

My two boys ride my two dogs like horses and try to tackle them all the time. I think from watching my boys do literally the same thing to me, they understand to just let it happen. Sometimes they enjoy the kids hanging on them, sometimes you can tell it's annoying them. I think it helped that early on when the kids would do that to them, i'd join in, and since I was playing with them, the dogs viewed it as fun, so they seem to not be bothered by it anymore for the most part. They both jump in the kids bed every morning and lick them until they wake up.

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again, what is the problem here?
Do you want your dog to wag his tail and greet an intruder with love, b/c I don't.
I don't fuss my dogs for barking at people that come to my house, unless it's someone I know and I let them bark at them until I tell them to stop. UPS/FedEx guy, they get barked at relentlessly. I don't tell them to stop.

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What does anything you said have to do with anything I said?

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same here. one of mine growled when my little one was crawling towards her bowl of food, which i'd expect, but I was watching and waiting for it. Popped her for it, then I did the same thing to her several times, even took food out of her bowl. From then on, never a problem. I also got my kids to give them treats, and we always make them sit and wait for their treats until we say OK, then they can take the treat. They still usually wait for me to actually say OK, which is hilarious b/c they do that with my wife as well. It's like they think someone is tricking them b/c they know they need my approval.

My two boys ride my two dogs like horses and try to tackle them all the time. I think from watching my boys do literally the same thing to me, they understand to just let it happen. Sometimes they enjoy the kids hanging on them, sometimes you can tell it's annoying them. I think it helped that early on when the kids would do that to them, i'd join in, and since I was playing with them, the dogs viewed it as fun, so they seem to not be bothered by it anymore for the most part. They both jump in the kids bed every morning and lick them until they wake up.

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My dogs do all of that same stuff, and I've never had to hit them once to get them to do these things.

That's the point.

Leather seats or gtfo