Comments on: Dog and Puppy Training Techniques https://www.thelabradorsite.com/basic-dog-training-techniques/ All about Labrador Retrievers Wed, 08 Sep 2021 14:38:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 By: Brittany https://www.thelabradorsite.com/basic-dog-training-techniques/comment-page-1/#comment-700886 Tue, 10 Nov 2015 14:28:45 +0000 https://www.thelabradorsite.com/?p=371#comment-700886 Hello Pippa!
I was wondering when you thought it was appropriate to move from stage one to stage two of the training process?

]]> By: Clive https://www.thelabradorsite.com/basic-dog-training-techniques/comment-page-1/#comment-19394 Mon, 02 Sep 2013 15:04:56 +0000 https://www.thelabradorsite.com/?p=371#comment-19394 In reply to Kate Scollen.

Thanks Kate, wow! Sounds like a dream. I’m sure Micki (lab) and I will get there eventually, just seems a long way off a the moment. I walk round and round in circles and she just races back past me. Sometimes we have a 30 minute walk and we get no further than 20yards up the lane.
We will persevere!

]]> By: Kate Scollen https://www.thelabradorsite.com/basic-dog-training-techniques/comment-page-1/#comment-19389 Mon, 02 Sep 2013 12:54:30 +0000 https://www.thelabradorsite.com/?p=371#comment-19389 Hi Clive, I use a harness for my lab. When I got him he was in a restrainer which I found pulled at his eyes and I was worried he’d end up with a damaged nose too. I got the harness simply because I felt I had more control with him that way, without having to constantly pull at his throat in a collar. This combined with lots of training and now I can remove the lead from the harness and he walks to heel with nothing joining us if I give him that command. Good luck!

]]> By: Pippa https://www.thelabradorsite.com/basic-dog-training-techniques/comment-page-1/#comment-19355 Sun, 01 Sep 2013 17:26:44 +0000 https://www.thelabradorsite.com/?p=371#comment-19355 Hi Clive,
I personally don’t recommend Haltis, because they don’t teach the dog to willingly walk to heel.
Some people do find that they work as a temporary ‘anti-pulling device’, others say that their dogs are miserable in them. I have never used one, so I cannot really add more than that. If you join the forum, you may be able to talk to other owners that have used them.
Best wishes, Pippa

]]> By: Linda Jeffrey https://www.thelabradorsite.com/basic-dog-training-techniques/comment-page-1/#comment-13487 Wed, 08 May 2013 19:17:34 +0000 https://www.thelabradorsite.com/?p=371#comment-13487 Hi Pippa, the first of many questions as I begin to explore this brave new world of gundogs!! You mention that the sit means stay until I release you. I assume you have a signal that means the sit it lie down is finished and they can move again. Do you use a word like ‘release’ or something or how do you do it. My pup will sit for about a minute until I try to move away so not sure how to progress to next stage!!

Thank you

Best wishes

Linda Jeffrey.

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