Lab Puppy Not Interested In Retrieving

I have a Golden Reteiver puppy now 13 weeks old. At 7 weeks she was not interested in retrieving at all just wanted to play with toys and hands and I was worried like you are.. Now she is reteiving well at 13 weeks, doesn't bring it all the way back every time but it's getting better day by day.

Lab puppy not interested in retrieving. She seems more like a 9 mon thg h old lab puppy to me. She loves other dogs. We have had her about 7 months and she has made great improvement, she still gets nervous when I get up, but if i sit or lay next her she will come right up to me and I pet her and she will let me give her all the love I have. My nine week old lab Rouxfus was retrieving bumpers in our hallway really well when we first got him 10 days ago. We did bumpers twice a day with 2-4 throws per session at a distance of 5-10 feet. Retrieved great! I let him hold the bumper and kept saying "Good Hold" while petting him etc. Then in one session I threw 1 too many and he quit. Teaching your Lab to fetch and retrieve toys is a great way to build a bond while getting out some of your pup’s pent-up energy. Not every owner can go for a jog with their canine partner by their side. Yet, even in this busy society, most people can throw a ball and let the dog run back and forth to get some exercise. 6. Not coming when called. Settle this early and don't reward running away. Never call to punish. Don't call and then do things the pup doesn't like, such as give him a shot, put him in the crate, etc. 7. Overuse of bribes. Take this example from Wyoming. The pup would not come, so tidbits were used to encourage the pup.

The collar does not magically impart the knowledge and skills of dog training to the guy holding the transmitter. Most folks buy an electric collar to solve a basic obedience problem, and they generally end up abusing the dog and not solving the problem, or trading one problem for an even bigger one. Our 5 month old lab puppy loves retrieving, he’ll do it all day long if we would let him at home and the park. He does get distracted at the field where there is a lot of long grass, trees, shrubs and wildlife smells, he’ll do the chase and sometimes pick up the ball but usually gets distracted after this. My 6 month Lab enjoys retrieving, and can go on for quite sometime before he gets bored (unless severely distracted..). We only play retrieve in the yard and inside of the house (The frigid weather/temperatures of the last 4 weeks have set us back on working/training items outside during our deep freeze).. He may become more interested in retrieving at about 6 months of age, after he's gone through the teething stage. Unleashing your Lab's retrieval skills. Whether you're working with a puppy or adult dog, the first step is simply to toss toys and look for your Lab to show interest in running after them.

Hub is an 8 month old lab that has no interest in picking up a ball or dummy. He goes to target but only touches his nose to it. I have another lab(Ace) that I started with when he was younger. He has great drive and intensity. When I work them together, Hub goes to target but still won't try to get it. He is more interested in harassing Ace. Retrieving. After your dog chases the object, the next step is getting him to actually bring it back to you. There are a number of different things you can do depending on your dog’s behavior. If he won’t bring the object back at all, it can help to use a second toy. We've got a 5 month old yellow Lab. He is a great dog, but no matter what we do he won't retrieve. He has no interest in fetching a ball. He will sometimes run after it, and sometimes he just stands there looking confused or goes off in another direction to sniff. At 8 weeks, Murphy was interested in retrieving. He would chase his toy down, then bring it more or less back. But he did not want to give it up so we just let him have it until he decided to let us have it. Amazing how smart these dogs truly are. My wife does not want to play tug of war with him.

My puppy is great at retrieving in the house but as soon as we go to a field shes more interested in smelling the grass she goes to chase the toy if i throw it for her but she will then run straight past it and sniff the grass. Christine Robertson January 26, 2020 at 7:27 PM - Reply. It'll help for you to NOT make your Lab wait until you send him but take advantage of dog's instinct to chase after a moving object. I strongly recommend that you NOT use a delay before retrieving UNTIL AFTER the fun of retrieving is re-ignited and strongly blazing, and fully established. Only THEN should a delay before retrieving be re-introduced. Retrieving must be not only fun for the puppy, but also more exciting than anything else it gets to do. This means you have to prevent it from indulging in, and developing a love for, other activites such as free play with other dogs. We have known extreme cases, puppies so excited about playing that the only way to get them to retrieve was to. Puppy Retrieving: Getting Started Introducing Birds, Water, and Throwers: Getting Your Puppy to Come Back by John and Amy Dahl First Published by Tri-Tronics, July 1999 Last month we discussed building retrieving desire, the single most important objective of puppy work. In this column we give another important tip on maximizing a pup’s focus.