My fiancee and I just got our first chocolate lab puppy! She’s the sweetest little dog but we have to get down to business and start potty training her cause we have carpet and the landlord can be a stickler sometimes! any useful tricks to help us potty train our newest family member? do they train easily with reward. I got this dog for my wife to be because i heard they were loving, loyal, and extremely smart! I am clueless about potty training because I come from the country part of texas and all the dogs were outside roaming the yard, this is our first true indoor dog. I know she will fit perfectly with us because we are always outside doing something (fishing, hunting, swimming etc). any help with this situation would be very useful! Thanks!

He is constantly picking fights with my cat, and he always bullies my older 12 year old chocolate lab. (Pushing him around, barking, biting etc ) another big problem is that he has a few toys around(ropes, chew toys and such) he ALWAYS wants to play and he’ll bark if you don’t. He has an ear piercing bark. He sometimes snaps at you if you don’t play. It’s becoming unbearable the way he always is bothersome. I guess this is to be expected from a puppy, but there has to be something i can do, Please Help.
You think puppy, and you may think tiny but he’s got a few inches on my chocolate lab. And he definitely has a tough bite.

Don’t think that we never play with him, I do a lot, but sometimes i need to relax.

She’s a chocolate lab, two years old… Is it too late to train her to not drag me along for a walk? How would I go about training her, anyway?

I have an active 2 yr. old Chocolate lab and I’m really interested in duck hunting and have been for a while but I only recently got my lab. What’s to old to start training?

I have a 7 month old chocolate lab that is my world She is crate trained and never uses the bathroom in her crate. She never messes up if i am here to let her out and during the night if she is sick(thats hte only reason she would have to go) she goes to the door and im a light sleeper so i know! I may be getting a 12 hour shift job and i want to start leaving her out in the apartment. She doesnt chew up anything so that isnt the problem. The problem is if noone is here and she is out of her crate she doesnt know to hold her bowel movements of pee! Please help if you have any advice on how to break her of this! She understands its wrong cause when you walk in the door she automatically hunkers down!

Hi everyone, thank you for taking the time to read this.

I have a 1 year old yellow lab, perfect as can be.

Decided to get him a buddy and bought a 8 week old chocolate lab.

I am in the process of getting the little guy crate trained and he’s to the point where he has no problem sleeping in the crate over night and napping in it during the day (it is in the living room during the day and the kitchen during the night.)

The 1 year old dog spends the night with the 8 week old in the kitchen with the puppy crated and the 1 year old free to roam.

I also have a dog door installed, the 1 year old uses it and is trained and allows me to go to work for 10 hours without the dog messing up the kitchen.

The problem I am having is with the 8 week old, well he’s 9 weeks now…

Because of my work schedule (away from home 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Monday – Friday) I do not want to keep the puppy crated and let him free roam with the 1 year old including usage of the dog door and access to the backyard.

Despite the dog having access to the outdoors and having a well trained dog to mimic, the 9 week old still goes to the bathroom in the kitchen, and not even on the puppy pads that are all over the place (I have 5 taped down over the spots he normally pees on).

I am thinking maybe closing the dog door and keeping them outside during the day while I am at work. The backyard has tons and tons of shade so I know overheating won’t be a problem, and if needed I could leave the hose dripping into the water bowl.

Does anyone know if this is detrimental to house breaking a puppy? I would hate to be unknowingly reinforcing soiling in the house.

Anyone have suggestions based on similar circumstances?

Trained my chocolate lab, Max to get me a beer from the fridge. Took about an hour of training. Next I’ll try to get him to differentiate between glass bottles and cans.

trying to train my chocolate lab thats almost 8 months but the dog won’t obey…it already know it’s commands like sit,come,and stay but when something is distracting it or it’s doing something it shouldn’t and i tell it a command it runs from me or comes up near me and barks when i’m telling it the command and then runs which is very irritating…it also has a habit of jumping on company…how can i make the dog stop these things?

I was thinking we need to make a side trip to Labrador since it isn’t too far away. I think I’d like to get a Chocolate Lab for myself. Is there anything else fun we can do aside from buying a dog?

I have a 14 month old chocolate lab/german short haired pointer mix, and I cannot walk him!

I have tried everything with this dog. Tried leash corrections, teaching him to heel with treats and praise, several different corrective collars, the "act like a tree" method… nothing. This dog just PULLS! He weighs 83 pounds now, and I am getting dragged around. I want to be a better dog owner and walk him more, but I just can’t control him! He gets so excited about everything! I play ball with him in the backyard for 20 minutes before walking him, and he is still full of energy by the time I get the leash on. I just want to teach him that I expect him to walk next to me calmly, not drag me down the street… and please, no foolish answers such as "beat him/hit him/kick him"… that’s just disgusting.

I really need advice on how to best work with this guy. Leash corrections are the toughest part, because he doesn’t even leave enough slack in the leash for me to correct him.