Hi there. I have a 9 week old black lab puppy, Sophie. I’ve had her for 2 weeks. This is my first puppy although my ex boyfriend had several labs so I somewhat new what to expect from a puppy. I’m doing okay with potty training and crate training, and she’s super smart with learning - she’s already learned sit, touch, down and is just now starting to understand “leave it” but needs more work in it. I too am struggling with biting. She lunges at my legs outside, pulls on my pant legs. She used to always attack me when I sit in my chair snd she’s by my feet. She recently has started using “touch” to interact with me and touches her nose to my hands and legs 80% of the time to get attention! So that is encouraging. But she still bites hard at other times (when I’m trying to give her a time out, outside on potty walks, etc) also having a really hard time exercising her outdoors cuz she just chews on her leash and pulls horribly, can’t get a harness in her cuz she bites and squirms, thank god I had a collar on her before she got bitey! this website has been a huge help as was the on line class I purchased, but hoping I can get past the biting phase! Also can’t wait until I can start her at doggie day care in 7 more weeks, I know it helped with my boyfriends lab - he was a different dog once he started going there a couple days a week and I’m a single dog owner so I could use the break/help!
Hello, hope you are enjoying your new family member. I can relate somewhat, first time lab owner (had other breeds) and I have experienced the jumping at me, hanging off my coat on a few walks. I found this happened on wet walks and on walks where our boy had a little more freedom when I dropped the longline, so perhaps overwhelmed, over stimulated teamed with his excitement for anything and everthing character. My reaction (i tried a few) turn your back, ignore all that behavouir, reward the correct behavouir and in our case it put a stop to this very quickly. I find the more I respond, the more over excited he gets, ignore, he settles down. Emma
