7 month choc lab acts like a wild biting lunging horse.. Help

Hmmm, I have a faint recollection of a horse standing on my foot and not moving away however much I leaned on her

 

Axel was terrible for pulling towards people and jumping up with excitement. (Axel is 8 months old now) I ended up resorting to using a halti which has corrected that behaviour for the most part. He hasn't jumped up in quite awhile! He does get excited when they start giving him the excited high pitched baby talk when we walk by so then he does want to go say hi.. But otherwise he no longer pulls, he just keeps walking

Because of his progress I think I'm going to try to wean him off the halti in high traffic areas. I think I'll be stealing the treat and reward tips I read in this thread to redirect him away

 

Send that horse to that training class its sure to work

 

Judy drew blood on an elderly woman yesterday after jumping up. Not with her teeth, with her claws. I'd warned her about the jumping but she did the usual 'that's ok, we've had dogs', got close and bent down. It's annoying me that people do this because puppy-ness aside, I feel like Judy is generally well-behaved then things like this happen and it's not really the fault of anyone other than the person getting in the space of an excited young puppy. I feel responsible though, and felt guilty for the woman getting cut. She was understanding but... arrghhh!! Very frustrating. Sorry, needed to rant!

 

I have a friend with a GR, also called Judy. When she was younger, the owner didn't want her jumping up, understandably, but there was one young woman who would always encourage her. The owner would always ask her not to, and she always did. One time, said woman was all dressed up to the nines in white trousers and a light coloured top when they ran into Judy, returning home from a muddy walk. Well, Judy did what she'd effectively been trained to do and jumped all over the woman. Funnily enough, she never encouraged the jumping again!

 

Haha!! Good old Judy !! Thanks for making me laugh!!

 

Excellent!!

 

This drives me insane too. grrrrr

 

I hear you!!!

 

Wow. There is loads of great advice here.

A lot of the work we do at puppy training is all about getting the dogs to have good manners. One exercise we do is take it in turns to get your dog to sit and concentrate on you while other dogs walk up and sniff, walk up to you and away, or walk past. When we meet other dogs when out and about I often get Luna to sit in advance and concentrate on me. This helps with her over enthusiasm.

My trainer has a load of labs and said when he has a pup he takes them to sit outside Asda! He says he just stands there, makes the dog sit and chill watching the trolleys and the cars, people and dogs go past. I think this sounds like a great idea if you have the time to do it.