Comments on: Labrador Training: The Basic Principles

By: Pippa

Pippa — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 14:43:17 +0000

In reply to Rose.

Hi Rose, your query has been chosen for reader’s question time – check back on Sunday for a full reply 🙂

By: Rose

Rose — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 11:27:37 +0000

This is a great read, thank you. My golden lab has just turned two, we started her training from a pup and continue to do so, she is fantastic at returning, sitting, walking to heel etc. We are training her to be a gun dog but the one thing she really struggles with is dropping the dummy..positive reinforcements just don’t seem to work! Any suggestions would be much appreciated 🙂

By: Francesco

Francesco — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 12:36:19 +0000

hi pippa,

i have a 10 months old lab name jade, and he is totally great at everything, but just one thing troubles me, once or twice a day, he just flips, and jumps up at either myself or my wife, and tries to bite our hands, arms, if we try to catch him he will run over the garden and repeat jumping and tries to bite you again. If you turn your back and ignore him, he bites your clothing, and pulls hard shaking his head trying to (and succeeding) tear your clothes. the only way is we try to make him sit, and after 1 or 2 mins he will clam down and no jumping or biting at all.

the techniques we were using to correct his biting behaviour is we turn our back on him untill he sits down quietly and we will give him a treat and this is working while he is not jumping and tries to bite us.

we are quite confuse of what we should do to correct his jumping and biting behaviours once or twice a day..

thank you