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- educate labrador dog
- How to Train a 3 Month Labrador
- How to Teach a Labrador to Clean Up in the Right Place
- How to train a Labrador to walk
- How to Train a Labrador to Not Jump
Training is just as important as vaccinations, deworming and general dog care. Labrador puppies, like other puppies, must be socialized from puppies to become sociable and balanced puppies in the adult stage. Anyway, even if you adopt an adult Labrador dog, it can and should be trained. Although it may take longer, with the proper training techniques you can teach and help your dog be more sociable and happier.
In this article by PeritoAnimal we will teach you how to train a labrador. Keep reading!
educate labrador dog
The Labrador Retriever is one of the most charming and popular dogs in the world. It is an extremely intelligent dog, very docile, kind and also very patient. As it is one of the most obesity-prone dog breeds, it is essential to spend several hours with it playing, exercising and everything that allows it to remain in good shape and healthy. For this reason it is so important to train the puppy from a puppy so that he is sociable and learns to play on a daily basis, to spend the enormous amount of energy he has.
How to Train a 3 Month Labrador
Since this is a very sociable dog, it is relatively easy to train the Labrador retriever. If you are wondering about how to train a baby labrador, these are two fundamental points:
- Socialize the puppy dog with different people, animals and objects: this point is essential, so that your dog is not afraid in adulthood and can live harmoniously not only with humans but with other dogs and even with other species. The more situations your puppy experiences, the better it will be for him. Read all the necessary information about socializing a puppy correctly in our article on that matter.
- teach basic commands: the basic commands are essential to psychologically stimulate the dog, they are not just mere tricks. Through positive reinforcement techniques, that is, rewarding the dog with a treat or treat whenever the dog obeys the command, you will see that your Labrador will very quickly learn basic commands such as: Sit down! He is! Lies down! Come here! Together! Read our full article explaining each of the basic dog commands.
How to Teach a Labrador to Clean Up in the Right Place
As with the basic commands, it is essential that you keep in mind that positive reinforcement is for everything you want to teach your dog, including teach the labrador to make needs in the right place. In other words, every time your puppy makes needs in the desired place, offer him a treat that he likes a lot.
It is important that you have regular hours when you take your dog outside. That way, it's easier for him to get used to waiting for these hours and not do his needs at home.
In the beginning, it is important to have an area of the house with many newspapers on the floor, so that the dog can do his needs there, in case he can't stand it until it's time to go for a walk. before the six months old, it is perfectly normal that the dog still needs to be done indoors. Some puppies may take longer to learn. You must remember that dogs, like people, have different learning times and not all dogs take the same amount of time to assimilate what you want them to learn. Be patient and remember that he doesn't do anything out of malice, he's just learning to live inside his house according to your rules and this is not always easy.
Read our article with a full explanation of teaching your dog to pee in the right place.
How to train a Labrador to walk
So that the walks are safe and your dog doesn't run away whenever he sees another dog or a cat, it is important that you train him to walk with you. However, this does not mean that your dog should always walk with you, you should also let him express himself freely and fully enjoy the walk.
If your puppy has already learned the basic "together" and "here" commands we mentioned earlier, it will be much easier to train him during the walk.
The process is very easy, just mention the dog's name and the word "together" and positively reinforce if he obeys. Read our article that explains step by step how to teach your dog to walk together.
How to Train a Labrador to Not Jump
The dog's over-excitement can make him jump for joy to greet people. We know that this behavior is very annoying and uncomfortable for some people and it can even be dangerous in the case of children, as the Labrador Puppies are of medium size and can easily knock down a small child.
For this reason, it is important that through positive reinforcement, you train the labrador not to jump. The commands "sit" and "sta" are essential for this process. Ideally, you should practice every day for 5/10 minutes and always offer a treat or treat as a reward. So, the moment you realize your Labrador dog is going to jump, use these basic commands to prevent it from doing so.
To read more about how to prevent the dog from jumping on people, read our full article on this subject.