LoveMyLabEva

We are crate training our lab and it works really well, she is in our room over night and just gives a little squeak when she wants to go out. during the day if we need to have a shower or something when we cant watch her then we put her back in the crate. wot we found is to save the really good food treats for what we called the "toilet treats" so every time she went outside where we wanted then she got a really good treat and loads of praise. this seems to work a treat ('cuse the pun hehe). persistance is the key! good luck!

Hey everyone, just a quick question on clickers, I'm very new to this so was hoping you could help me out I have a 16week old Lab who is doing very well with her training with the exception of pulling when on a lead. I have been clicker training her from the start with all her training and she responds very well to it. So with teaching to walk on a loose lead, I have been using the clicker to "click' everytime shes on my left and walking how i want as well as verbal praise, she picked it up really well inside so i started to take her for short walks outside with clicker and treats. she still pulls but i stand still as soon as she pulls, this seems to work and she comes back to sit position. this just seems to take forever sometimes to go even a short distance with all the stops. my question is this.......should i keep going like this or should i be doing it differently?? her attention span is still quite short so i dont no how much i should expect from her at this age. long long should i expect her to be able to concentrate on me before i end the session ( with a play ofcourse :D )

agreed!

Wow, thats a fantastic story! definately gives him something to look forward too! My Brother is in the military and been to afgan once and iraq twice so I love the fact you are helping this Hero to find a puppy to love. looking forward to seeing the pics of the meeting

Just to clarify (as you're new to having dogs) it's only the dog that has to do this..... hehe im currently at work and that made me laugh enough for people to look over! thanku for the clarify

thanks everyone by the last time the Collie came I did end up picking my puppy up just to get her away from the other one, but I wasnt sure if this was teaching my puppy to be afraid of other dogs. We left very soon after anyways as she was getting tired and I'm very aware of not over exercising her.

Shes a Labrador

Just wondering what the earliest age I can get my puppy desexed. I've already got 2weeks leave for work booked in November for something else but I was wondering if my puppy would be too young to be desexed then when she will be 5months (21weeks). I just figured that way I could be home to look after her post surgery. is this too early??

Hi everyone, I'm new to having dogs and am loving my 14week old Labrador and like her, I'm learning too. I was wondering if there is a unwritten code on how other peoples dogs are allowed to interact around my puppy. Heres the scernario..... My OH and I took our pup Eva to a off leash dog beach yesterday for the first time. We kept her on her lead as we know she will be way too distracted to listen to us with all the people and dogs around but we were still having a great time down by the water. Ofcourse we had to stop at every dog to say hello and sniff everyones bums to be polite, but while on the beach another dog came to say hello. This dog was what looked to be a border collie approx 6months old and not on a leash. The collie came over a few time and Eva was fine and happy to say Hello but after about the 4th time of the owner coming over and not being able to catch it, the collie started growling at her and jumping on her back. Eva was trying to get away but not able to outrun it due to being on a lead. The owner then tried to grabbed their dog again and managed to get it go away, however within minutes it was back and jumped on Eva again but this time was trying to bite her back and wasnt letting her get away. I understand this dog wasnt trying to be vicious but definately wasnt playing nicely or socially! so my question is....at what point do I intervene?? do i tell the dog off or the owner or both?? I'm all for the socially of puppies at a young (but fully vaccinated) age but how can i teach her to behave if other dogs are not behaving themselves. any help would be appreciated

maybe they could go to child care centres too. love the idea though, I took my 12week puppy to my nieces kindy when I went to pick her up and the kids really loved it. some of the comments on that article really made me angry though, some non dog owners are very opinionated for not having much dog experience