Top 3 Tips for your First Puppy

This week Charlie introduces Labrador puppy Thunder and discusses the early stages of training.

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[markjones]

Absolutely the best videos out there....common sense approach to the max....
Getting my 16 week old male black lab puppy this week and these videos are my go too👍

[stallservices]

This is truly great advice. Thanks for taking the time to create & upload

[donaldtriumph]

I couldn’t agree more let youngsters be youngsters. Fun times are good times plenty of time to mould the pup into a trustworthy companion.

[archonone]

Wow, your uploads are priceless. Packed full of great tips and education to support us training our canine companions. This video however, you knocked the ball out of the park. Thank you.

[EmmaIrvine-vu]

Love your advice wish I had found it sooner

[colinjohnston]

Lovely pup. That wee dudes tail hardly stopped wagging all the time you were holding him up off the ground. What a star. What a happy, well balanced and rounded pup.
Tebay Services in Westmorland must be the best laid out and thought through services ever. Half way between my adopted home in West Sussex and my son's place in the Angus Glens. Perfect!

[SM-sycd]

I love your approach! It is so true. A puppy is a blank slate. Relax and enjoy the puppy stage, it is too short already.

[michellegain]

Exactly I've just got a 16 week old Springer we are just having fun bonding and engaging with me first..

[janetwarren-dunford]

Great advice, I keep watching, re-watching and re-watching. Thank you.

[sweetlorraine]

Your enthusiasm your advice makes perfect sense

[keithhaynes]

Thank you again Charlie for the video, Thunder looks a beautiful well breed puppy .

[TheReelIsle]

Such a great overview. Our golden retriever boy is approaching 11 weeks and so far we've been bombarded by all the various YT channels that promote exactly as you mentioned: treat driven training, putting more pressure on the dog than required for the age. We've resisted all the tricks but have been training sit and stay, and thresholds.

Building engagement by running away is superb advice - so far we've built that up with treats (kibble etc), paid on eye contact. When we get outside however, the garden is just too much of a distraction unless we get very high value treats out) eating grass and anything he can get in his mouth.

Our 120m2 garden isn't quite like your setup but we do have the space. We've been using a lead/collar to walk him to it down the side of the house (he walks those 20seconds well, but will absolutely pull if he wants to get into some moss that's fallen off the roof, or to drive into the hedge.. we can carry him from the back door down the patio steps to the lawn however.

I'm going to try to build up the engagement by running away and bouncing around as you suggest.

Question: he just LOVES the hedge and that's going to be our biggest adversary on maintaining attention. Likewise the hedge gives him all his chewing distractions. What do you recommend to stop or lessen this distraction? What do you recommend if he just plainly ignores you because he's found a hedge to chew? Is it worth adding a temporary fence around the law so he can't get to the hedge?

Thanks for your advice and videos.

[dogsmartwithmegan]

I always think it's important to watch and listen to others even if you do things differently. I do use food for training (among many other things and it's certainly not an over use), which i know you don't. But we also do things so similarly in other aspects, and I bloody love this video. I hope everyone with a puppy sees this, and especially those with gundog breeds in pet homes. Solid advice.

[justdawndb]

The best advice & direction I've ever seen on early puppy raising and the why's behind the logic....THANK YOU

[robertlowman]

Brilliant.Just got a Labrador puppy at 11 weeks.Very informative 👍

[niteshdowlagar]

Love your advice! Thank you. First time dog parent here. My sprocer is going crazy on the gardens.

[helenberrington]

Great video makes me feel better for just letting my boys be puppies when they were little. (Admit to being a bit soft and spoiling them a bit !) They are now 14 months and 8 months old working cockers and they still like playing rough with each other during downtime nothing too aggressive just scrabbling at each other/jumping and rolling about they break it up when told too but it seems to be just part of growing up and they do it less and less now.

[GrahamKeane]

The dogs don't need the training its the humans. Great advice and gorgeous pup !!

[garygold]

Great video, so much commen sence suggestion. Keep up the good work, and we may all become better dog owners, but it won't happen overnight. Thank You

[rosjierandevelynhall]

This guy has the happiest dogs on you tube