Need some help

[Walleye Wegs]

I have an 11 week old female lab. She gets very hyper when I want to work with on sit, stay, come. She loves to play fetch and will play for hours if I could. We play for about 20 min. a day. When she is calm she does a pretty good job with sit but needs some work with stay. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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[duckbuster]

I would just keep up the hard work you are putting in. Keep in mind that she is not 3 months old yet. Obedience training takes time. Sit, stay, heal will take a few months before they are completely mastered and you feel confident that she knows exactly what you are saying to her.
If she is that wound up maybe try and take some of that piss & vinegar out of her first. You stated that she would retrieve all day, do that 1st then try some of the odedience work.
Be patient and keep plugging along she will come around.

GOOD LUCK

[FISHER ED]

Hi there. When I got my choc lab at 13 weeks I was all ready to start in obediance but my trainer was a firm believer not to work any obediance at all until the puppy teeth came out. His thoughts were to let a pup be a pup and just let them have fun retrieving birds and dummies. Once the puppy teeth started coming out we started the sit, stay & heel stuff. It didn't take him long to get the hang of things and at 17 months is a spazzy terror when working birds and dummies but will sit on command from any distance and stay until I release him.
Just give your dog time and things will work out. For now, keep things fun and they willalways be fun for both you and your hunting partner. Have a good one.

[irvingdog]

K.I.S.S!!!!!!!!

Short sessions are the key!

Have fun. It's a baby!

[BLACKJACK]

I think the key to Sit, Heel, Stay, Come is repitition. Spend 10 minutes a day every day, maybe 2-3 times a day on the weekend, before you know it, you'll have a dog that will stay.

My female lab pup is the same age as yours and at this point we've probably marched around the truck and tractor in my shed 40 times in the last week on the leash, doing Heel, Sit, starting on Stay, whistle is next, I do Sit about 6 different times, then its off the leash to go play, terrorize the old yellow dog, drag a piece of wood around, attack the beer carton, learn that you can't chew on shoe laces, lets play some retrieve the dummy, oh its off to run around the truck... You get the idea, life is fun right now, but shes learning to be a good citizen, keep the sessions short. When it warms up outside, we'll be marching around the house and trees on the leash, by the end of summer she'll have Sit, Heel, Stay down pat. Good luck.

[This message has been edited by BLACKJACK (edited 02-10-2004).]

[setterguy]

20 minutes maybe too long at this young age. She will let you know when its time to stop with the training. Always follow up a training session with some play. Instead of doing one 20 minute session, try 3 5 minute sessions and see what happens.