Charlie is 8 months old lab male Pup May i please know the reason behind these 2 as well ??? 1- sometimes he gets too hyper like madly running here and there up and down and hurts himself sometimes - what does that means?? 2- why he sniffs my helpers butt and sometimes even mine?? My lady helper gets very offensive on this and for me i don't understand why he is doing this with me these days when i take bath daily and for me this has only started since he is back from the dog hostel after staying there for a week. Before this stay he hardly ever did this to me.
Charlie is being hyper because he is a teenager. Many Labradors of that age are hyper. My dog Molly was hyper from about the age of seven months until she was nearly a year old. You are not doing anything wrong, and neither is her, it is just the way they are at that age. Many male dogs sniff human and animal butts. It is nothing to do with the cleanliness of the human. The dog nose is about 1000 times more sensitive than ours. Dogs love to smell, they learn through their noses. My girl dog Molly loves to sniff lamposts where the boy dogs have peed.
Charlie sounds like a normal 8 month old to me. I would just make sure he doesn't become so excited he hurts himself. As Molly says this type of sniffing is normal and has nothing to do with cleanliness. You could try to explain this to your lady helper and that dogs learn a lot from their sniffs of both dogs, people and when outside where other dog's have pee'd. With your lady helper you could try to divert Charlie's attention when he goes to sniff and reward him for responding or perhaps encourage her o play with Charlie with a toy when comes to sniff.
#1 A lot of people here call this the Zoomies. They are an expression of joy and energy and when my dog gets too old to do them I know I will miss them greatly. He's 8 years old now and still zooms. That said, you don't want either of you to get hurt. I do not allow zooming in the house and when outside I stand in a corner of my deck where I cannot be knocked over and encourage my dog with, "Go ZOOM, go, go, good boy. ZOOM." I block him from things that could hurt him too, like the slippery snow covered deck in winter. By assigning a word to this (exact same thing you do for potty training) you can get a bit more control and start the zoomies when YOU want them to happen. My dog typically wants to zoom just After a long walk. You'd think he'd be tired but no, he wants one last zoom around the yard first. And he zooms after he swims. Or just this morning I got him going in the snow. Some dogs get really carried away when they zoom and snap and bite at pants legs. My sweet, gentle Jet did that. I stopped the zoomies before she got that worked up. I stopped them simply by disengaging from her, turning my back and walking away. It's harder for some but sure worth a try to start with. #2 Some dogs are worse at this than others. My intact male does not usually sniff, my spayed female did. I try to pre=empt if I see a sniff coming and tell them NO SNIFFING. To teach this all I did was block the sniff. In hindsight (please, go ahead, roll over laughing ) I wish I had picked other words so as not to alert the prospective sniffee too much. Maybe simply LEAVE IT as I say for several other things.
What is his exercise and training routine? Are you able to get him any off lead time at all? I would expect a few hyper days from a well exercised and trained 8 month old (my own 3 year old dog will still have zoomies) but I would also expect to be able to train settled behaviour in the house reasonable well.... Dogs smell bottoms, it's what they do.
Tara often has a mad half hour, racing about with her tail curled under her and bouncing off the walls or fence. Usually when she has only had a short walk, and not been up the park, so just getting rid of excess energy.
Exercise is just few fetch games in the house and 30-40 mins walks which I sometimes miss due to my busy schedules This zoomy behaviour is typically after the walk just when we enter our home and i let him go off the leash OR sometimes suddenly without any reason. When we are At home he stays off the leash and gets hooked to the leash only when we go for walks. In our apartment society we are not allowed to let dogs go off leash in the park or walking area so there's no possibility of going off leash in the out here.
I do understand that in some countries it is difficult to find places where dogs can be off lead. But your young Labrador is living in an apartment, with no garden, with only lead walks which you sometimes miss - that's not great at all. Being off lead in an apartment doesn't count, unfortunately. You need to make up for the lack of opportunities by giving your dog as much to do as possible. Training, new places, new activities. Try learning a hobby you can do with your dog (from books if there are no classes) - you could try scentwork, or training obedience, or advanced tricks and so on. And do try to find somewhere your dog could get to have a bit of freedom - dog parks, dog clubs or can you drive into the country? Even a rented tennis court or something... Best of luck with it.
