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Good luck with her - labs are a ton of fun!
Give it lots and lots of doggie bones.
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Lab training question
After the pup wakes from a nap, quickly bring him/her outside so they get used to relieving themselves on the lawn instead of your home.
Labs have a ton of energy. You must give her lots of exercise and create activities for her to help prevent behavior problems as she grows.
No advice, since I’ve never had a dog, but my heart goes out to you. I’ve lost a couple pets in my life and I know the pain well.
Good luck with the new girl. :)
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Settle down people. It was a joke.
Maybe.
Get Ceaser Milano’s book..........Dog Whisperer
He has all the best training tips.
Daughter has a yellow lab. They are the sweetest dogs.
Lock up your shoes.
Get a place at the lake with a dock and learn to swim.
I’ve had labs. This is the best book I’ve ever read on developing them, not just as retrievers but as pets.
Before you buy any toy, chew toy or treat, make sure that it is not made in China. Seriously.
he went to Heaven last Monday
Seriously? Go get another lab same age. We got our two from the same litter. Best decision we made about dogs. Crate training was the second best. The two dogs keep each other company, exercise each other in the yard (watching them play-wrestle is great) and wears off enough of that lab energy that what we get to deal with is the fun level, not the insane wear-you-out level.
Get the puppy a cat so it will have an animated plush toy to play with.
We have, right now, three house dogs, five outside dogs, about a dozen barn cats, and eight horses. More like a zoo than a home, but...
We’ve had several labs over the years, black and yellow. They are, without doubt, the best family dogs we’ve ever known. Likewise, though, they require a lot of stimulation, to keep them occupied, alert, and in shape. Our kids were very good about playing with them, a lot of fetch and tug-o-war with a large diameter rope toy.
So, that’s my advice...a lot of play time and positive reinforcement of proper behavior.
Good Luck with the new addition, and please accept our sincere condolences on the loss of your pet.
Lots of praise as part of training. Rubbing noses in excrement and whacking are really counterproductive. At least in my experience.
Our previous dog was a lab and that was the dog that convinced me to not use crates. She hated the crate, so we put her in a tiled room with an old chair in front of a window and slid a piece of showerboard across the doorway anchored by the couch. Not everyone has that option and many people disagree, but I've met a lot of puppies with great promise who ended up flighty and the one thing they had in common was crating.