Hello! Thank you for letting us join! We are very excited to have brought Ms Molly, a Chocolate Lab into our family. She is 12 weeks old and just weighed in at 17lb. Yesterday. We rescued her from a pet shop, and she came with a few issues, but nothing lots of Love and doctoring will not fix. Both of her parents are AKC registered. She is the most sweetest girl ever ..read more

Hello First time puppy owners. Our four month old Labrador does really well at night sleeping from 9pm to 6am usually with a toilet break when we go to bed around 10pm. When she does wake in the morning she barks and wakes us up - is there a way to get her to wait for us to come down calmly (no barking)?Does this come with age? Or do we need to specifically train this? And if so how? She is crated over night (downstairs in our family room) but her day time naps are out of the crate. She... Puppy morning wake up advice ..read more

I have my 9 week old puppy home and today is the first time in years that I’ve cried. It’s more through frustration with myself because I’ve lost my temper with her twice today. Obviously she’s still learning what the world is but absolutely nothing seemed to work to get her to behave. We exercised, explored the neighbourhood, peed, pooped, slept, I have frozen teething toys and room temp nylabones scattered around but still the constant biting was happening. So stressed that maybe... Wits End ..read more

Hi, We are 5 months into our journey with out lab pup Amber who is now 7 months old. We've had a cocker before but this is our first lab! I won't lie its seriously hard work and like many posts I've read for the morale support I have moments where I wonder what we've done so all help gratefully received! She's bright and clever and good a lot of the time and is great with the kids. As her primary care provider I seem to be the one that bears the brunt of the bad behaviour! Mostly it's... Hello from a new lab owner ..read more

Greetings, this is my first post - I just joined. I hope this is the correct forum. Also, I did not see any title that spoke to my concern. Grady is a beautiful, stunning Lab/Aussie mix. I adopted him from a rescue. My understanding is that he was tied up with tire chains in a backyard in OK with his sister/wife. He was parasite burdened, underweight and almost feral when I started to foster him in June (interestingly enough he was house broken). The rescue said he was 2 years old.... Rescued Adult Labrador mix behaves like a puppy or toddler ..read more

I have a 2year old chocolate Labrador, last year he lost the fur around his eyes.The pet centre we use sent some of his fur away for some tests and found he was allergic to chicken turkey and some other things, we worked with the pest centre to pick the right dry food. The food didn’t help and ended up at the vets and put on steroids.But the same thing happened again this year but a lot worse again the fur loss around the eyes and this time fur loss on the legs excessive scratching flaky... Advice needed urgently - dog skin problems ..read more

My 9 months old black lab and I are attending training classes since he got all the necessary vaccines. The trainer uses mostly positive training methods, with some aversive ones which I just try to ignore. But lately she has been pushing me to get a halti for my biy, since he is pulling a lot more in the presence of other dogs. He is in peek adolescence and we had to take quite a few steps back in training which I don't mind. We went back to basics with basic commands, recall and heel... Dog training class opinion ..read more

My 9 months old black lab and I are attending training classes since he got all the necessary vaccines. The trainer uses mostly positive training methods, with some aversive ones which I just try to ignore. But lately she has been pushing me to get a halti for my biy, since he is pulling a lot more in the presence of other dogs. He is in peek adolescence and we had to take quite a few steps back in training which I don't mind. We went back to basics with basic commands, recall and heel... Training class opinion ..read more

George is 11 months old and while he weighs about 27kg he is quite small overall. Low to the ground and short (length-wise), and not overweight according to our vet. He is from English/show stock. Not worried about his health, per se, as his mum was quite small, but wondering if anyone else has a smaller Lab and when they stopped growing. Will he grow some more and he's just a late-bloomer? He has been behind on other milestones, like lifting his leg. I personally don't care (he fits... Anyone else have a small Lab ..read more

I took my 5 year old chocolate girl to the vet yesterday (she loves going to the vet btw). As always all the strange, exciting smells make her a bit hyper - hanging off the end of the harness and jumping up and down on the spot. Anyway there was a lady in reception (her dog was out the back in the treatment room) who took it upon herself to fairly loudly tell Hillary to sit when I was trying to quietly get my girl to focus on me and calm down. This lady said in a self satisfied tone 'I'm... Opinion Please ..read more