Comments on: Trick Training: A Fun Activity To Share With Your Lab

By: Kris swartz

Kris swartz — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 17:20:34 +0000

In reply to Terry Ross. Sometimes using a. Halter and it is much less of a pull and then you can train her.

By: Dee

Dee — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 16:44:50 +0000

Some tricks I’ve taught to my yellow lab “Manikka”‘are….she fetches the tissues when I sneeze, when I drop something from my recliner I say ‘oops’ and she’ll get it & put it on my lap, she knows each of her many toys by name and/or color & will fetch it, and several other intelligent decision tricks. I’ve never had a dog as easy to train as this lab!

By: Terry Ross

Terry Ross — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 14:26:53 +0000

In reply to Noshab. I have an 8 month old yellow lab and I got him when he was 7 weeks old.. I started training him right off the bat. He learned sit immediately followed by the rest of the commands and then we worked on just for fun tricks. Now he is extremely well trained and he will stay as long as I ask him to.. The only thing I'm having a little trouble with is getting him to walk nicely on a leash .he is 85 lbs and very strong and he can be a puller. As far as dog food I have been feeding him iams large breed smart puppy dry dog food. I don't know if you have that there but you may be able to order it. I also give him pieces of carrot and Apple for a healthy treat. Good luck! Labs are the best and they learn very quickly.. A lab can learn in 10 minutes what it takes other breeds months to learn. I don't think there is any reason to wait to train.. The sooner you teach the basics the better.

By: Emma

Emma — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 14:51:30 +0000

In reply to Noshab. Absolutely love the cardboard box ideas!

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 14:18:29 +0000

ive had my black labrador over 2 years he called ben i love him to bits and ive learnt him sum tricks like speak ,give paw , roll over and even get the mail once the postman has been and i only showed ben how to do it once there super intelligent and will learn basic tricks so easily and its great fun for you and the dog

By: Noshab

Noshab — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 18:09:18 +0000

i have just bought a labrador puppy……..i wanted to know when it is safe to teach him cool tricks….and i dont know what to feed him as i am in pakistan….
plz help me…
Thanks!!!:D

By: Kristýna

Kristýna — Tue, 29 May 2012 20:11:04 +0000

I really share your opinion on teaching tricks. It´s great, it tires the dog´s brain, teaches him to think, overcome problems in training and it just is so much fun!!!

Here are two videos of my lab doing some clicker-trained tricks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRkXo2kPw5M&list=UUxE7H7ezp-xmuSvTx_2bTiw&index=6&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNT-Bqfcpek&list=UUxE7H7ezp-xmuSvTx_2bTiw&index=0&feature=plcp

By: Pippa

Pippa — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:39:07 +0000

Thanks Barbara, it is surprisingly satisfying isn’t it! 🙂

By: Barbara

Barbara — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:01:25 +0000

Ben has limited time with Riley in the morning before work so once they exhausted some of the simpler obedience stuff they were out of time for long duration sit/stays etc so they’ve moved on to tricks. It’s great because it’s real bonding time for them and fun too. I think it also means Riley gets used to taking direction from Ben which translates to some of the longer duration or more complex stuff.