Help with male pup

I disagree…he’s too young to be sexually attracted to a female in heat…that doesn’t mean he doesn’t “smell the difference”, but he doesn’t know why (that’s why it’s ok not to neuter them until 6 onths old…they ARE NOT sexual). Labs are very active dogs…more so than many other breeds… it’s this exhuberance for life that many people love about Labs. His activity level may seem higher, also, because he doesn’t sleep all the time like he did when he was tiny.

This is the perfect age to start an obedience class…one with a professional and lots of other dogs…Humans learn as much OR MORE than the dogs they bring in. Learning takes stink out of them, too…mental activity is tiring. Pups love to roughhouse, and play…so he sounds normal to me…just in need of some discipline (please note…discipline is NOT punishment)…

Also, at 15 weeks he’s preparing to lose his puppy teeth, too…so you might as well prepare by getting some stuff for him to knaw on…

Your pup will be a “pup” of varying maturity levels until he’s about 18 months old…what you do with him now, while he’s still small and manageable will dictate how easy he will be to handle when mature…

For now, however…please remember this is a baby…and will be for some time.

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First he is not to young to be reacting to a female in heat, he is 4 months old.

Second read up on the breeds he is. Collie and Lab. DO NOT give lots of attention to the barking, you should never reward bad behaviour.

Three, get him neutered as soon as your vet allows, 6 months is what the age is where I work

Keep up the good work with walks, He needs to have that time to burn energy, He is part collie and that leads me to believe this is where the nipping is coming into play. NOW I am a firm believer in the Dog Wispers way of training and correcting a dog and you you react to the way they act, I would suggest watching him on Tv, National Geographic channel, or read his book I use a lot of what he says at work with our Red Zone dogs, I still have to be careful and in some cases I use a muzzle or the Rabies pool. But your body langue and vibes do mean a lot, and like I said, realize when you are rewarding bad behaviour, If a child cries and we give them a toy,food, bottle, then what do you think the child will associate with crying??? you are right, same thing with a dog.

trouble is he is walked two to three times a day, he is traind to of lead so he has free run of the park, we play fetch etc whilst over there, in total he is walked for about 2.30 hours a day some times more if we go over to the woods so he is not under exercised and he lives in the house and sleeps in my bed room so he is always around someone. he growls and bits when ask him to do something or when we are out walking he bits me or just walks down the stree barking.

Yeah… nothing to do with females, he’s too young, you need to give him more walks and more playtime to try to wear him out. =]

He’s far too young to be reacting to a female.

He’s just being a puppy…give him lots of walks

he gets walked twice aday plus lots of playtime, he runs of the lead so burns up most of his energy.

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