CiCi is great we’re getting pretty close to being potty trained she’s alerting me when she has to potty even goes to the door to let me know. But I have a concern I have a 9 month old kitten I rescued when he was 14 wks from SPCA at first he hated her. He followed her around hissing at her but now 3 days later they’re the best of friends every time we’re home they to want to run around and play. I don’t know if I’m being to cautious or worried but I read and watched a couple lab videos trying to learn more about the breed and in a couple of them they mentioned labs will run, play, and exercise until they literally push their bodies to the limit and drop in 2 vids they actually said the dog died. I’m so worried about her pushing her self to hard I’ll stop the play as soon as she looks even a little tired should I keep doing that or just let her be a puppy and play?
Puppies will play until they are made to stop. At this young age you need to control the lenght of play time and ensure she settles and has down time and naps. Also if you let her get to tired she will be badly behaved and cranky, just like babies.
My pup is 11 weeks and when the arousal play gets to be too intense or high we redirect or put Sully on a calm space (crate time) 15 minutes ..so he will settle on his own and no stimulation. We have other small breed dogs. He enjoys pushing the envelope with them. Like oh so I get this reaction? Both are service dogs so they are very balanced as far as correction and calming signals.
