Comments on: My Labrador won’t let me do that! https://www.thelabradorsite.com/my-labrador-wont-let-me-do-that/ All about Labrador Retrievers Thu, 19 Jun 2025 20:00:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 By: Charmaine Kavanagh https://www.thelabradorsite.com/my-labrador-wont-let-me-do-that/comment-page-1/#comment-993225 Sat, 30 Jul 2022 16:49:50 +0000 https://www.thelabradorsite.com/?p=9539#comment-993225 My sweet obedient 2 year old lab dog gets vicious when the vet tries to clip her nails and clean her ears. Even with me as soon as I touch her paws or ears she shows teeth, growls, snarls and snaps. Yesterday the vet managed to get her front paws clipped but as soon as the back paw was touched my dog went crazy and went for the vets face. Thankfully there was no bite. My dog was fine with paws and ears touched when she was a puppy and we maintained her nails and ears with ease. Over the year we noticed more frequent ear issues. We suspected she developed a food or treat allergy so we changed her food to holistic. Last year she had a bad ear infection and the vet, plus his assistants, held her down to clean her ears. Ever since then it has been an issue touching her ears and back paws. My dog was conditioned, got a bad infection from eating a wheat product, and was held down at vet causing great stress. I am working on desensitization again, and looking for a vet that will sedate her for clips and cleans. This vet said if I don’t buy his expensive food (says, the holistic food I feed may be the issue) or use the medication daily from him I may end up paying 10k to fix the ears if it is not kept under control. Is there a home remedy, easy to apply, for yeast in the ears? I’m not too concerned about nail trims as my dog is walked on concrete 3x a day.

]]> By: Deep https://www.thelabradorsite.com/my-labrador-wont-let-me-do-that/comment-page-1/#comment-754624 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 19:14:02 +0000 https://www.thelabradorsite.com/?p=9539#comment-754624 In reply to Deep.

Also my lab is already 2..so no more a teeny weeny pup when it was much easier

]]> By: Deep https://www.thelabradorsite.com/my-labrador-wont-let-me-do-that/comment-page-1/#comment-754623 Tue, 03 Apr 2018 19:13:12 +0000 https://www.thelabradorsite.com/?p=9539#comment-754623 How do u gradually progress to administer pills? More do on a daily basis? Putting eye drops still better but ointment? How to do it? A video on the same would be beneficial.

]]> By: Phil https://www.thelabradorsite.com/my-labrador-wont-let-me-do-that/comment-page-1/#comment-627244 Mon, 12 Jan 2015 01:54:18 +0000 https://www.thelabradorsite.com/?p=9539#comment-627244 When my Lab-Newf was young, he hated us trying to apply flea treatment to the skin under his fur. I found bribery and distraction worked magnificently.

I take a peanut butter jar (with just the residual butter left in it) and wedge that under one knee. When the dog lay down to lick inside the jar, i could easily reach over him and pull some hair back to apply the flea treatment. He barely even notices me doing it.

We’ve now got to the point when he’s quite happy just having the jar held in his paws by himself; I can apply the treatment without having to awkwardly sit or kneel.

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