Labrador exercise is a vital part of their daily care. Dog walks and visits to the park are beneficial, but there are lots of ways to keep your dog fit. Fetch, agility, tracking, hunting, swimming and even obedience training will burn calories, raise their metabolic rate, encourage cardiovascular health and maintain high energy output levels….
How much exercise I give my puppies each day depends on a few factors. These include how much training I’ve done that day, whether they have tired themselves out playing, and of course their developmental stage. But there are some good rules of thumb you as a new puppy parent can use, and I’ll share…
Kate O’Brien answers your important question: How much exercise does my Labrador need? Labrador Retrievers are active dogs. They are classified by the AKC and UK Kennel Club in the ‘Sporting Dog’ category. The breed standard says the following about their fitness levels: “a dog possessing…the substance and soundness to hunt waterfowl or upland game…
Providing the right diet and exercise for your Labrador will help keep them healthy, but it isn’t always easy to know whether you are doing the right thing. This page is a hub for everything fitness related for your lovely Labrador, to help keep you both on the healthiest path possible. Labrador Diet Labrador Weight…
Weight gain is sneaky. It creeps up when we are not looking. And our dogs are no different from us in that respect. You live with your dog every day and you probably won’t notice weight gain that happens slowly over many months. So you mustn’t be too hard on yourself if you wake up…
Depending on who you ask, the best time to neuter a dog could be anything from 3 months old to never. And that’s because different people look at neutering from different perspectives. You really need to consider what your perspective is, before you seek advice, if you want to get an answer that works best…
A well designed fetch training program does so much more than simply teach your dog to retrieve. Here are just a few of the benefits. #1 You’ll Be More Important To Your Dog When a human is the center of their dog’s world, the possibilities for further training and teamwork are endless. The best students…
Well bonded dogs are happy, settled, and let’s face it, much easier and nicer to live with than ones who feel less secure in their attachments. And what’s wonderful, is that once you start to connect more to your black Labrador, you’ll realise that the benefits for both of you go even further. Whether it’s…
As dog owners, we all benefit from the joy and energy our beloved companions bring into our lives. Especially the joy part. Sometimes the ‘energy’ part can be a bit much! But what if there was a way to channel that energy, without squashing the joy? And what if that way also kept our dogs…
Lots of dogs dig a little, or a lot, at some point in their lives. Some breeds are more hardwired to do it than others. But a lot of the instincts which cause dogs to dig up their bedding are universal to all breeds. So the difference between a dog who can’t resist digging in…
