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Dog trainers: Am I ok to let this go?
« on: February 19, 2017, 06:18:48 PM »

They both seem to love wrestling like this.  Is this ok?  The black dog is 6 years old and we've had him since he was 6 weeks old.  The brown dog is 8 months old and we've had her about 3 weeks.  They seem to get along.  They eat right next to each other with no growling, they don't fight over toys and just seem to be ok together except the puppy getting on the older dogs nerves every now and again.  When this "wrestling" gets a little overly active or when the brown dog starts to chew on the black dogs hamstrings, I speak up and they dial it back a bit.

I just want to make sure allowing them to wrestle like this isn't setting me up for problems down the road.

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Re: Dog trainers: Am I ok to let this go?
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2017, 06:27:16 PM »
Our labs and Chihuahuas wrestle like that all the time still and they're all five and six years old.

It's funny to watch our teacup Chihuahua take on the labs. :chuckle:
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Re: Dog trainers: Am I ok to let this go?
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2017, 07:52:56 PM »
Looks like they're having a good time to me.  :tup:

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Re: Dog trainers: Am I ok to let this go?
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2017, 07:58:00 PM »
My 2 labs knock pictures off the wall so I think your ok till then

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Re: Dog trainers: Am I ok to let this go?
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2017, 03:30:09 PM »
My yellow lab likes to body-slam my chocolate lab more playing fetch.
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Re: Dog trainers: Am I ok to let this go?
« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2017, 03:50:40 PM »
My 5 year old Golden and my buddy's two young labs are like that all the time. Then when Murphy's had enough, he lets the pups know with a stern growl, and they mellow out. It always makes me laugh, because him growling like a tough guy is so ridiculous.
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Re: Dog trainers: Am I ok to let this go?
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2017, 11:41:30 PM »
A little play isn't bad.

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Re: Dog trainers: Am I ok to let this go?
« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2017, 04:24:16 PM »
They will let each other know when one has had enough...I let mine play outside but NOT in the house, they can get carried away. They both know when to play and when to hunt so training has not been affected.

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Re: Dog trainers: Am I ok to let this go?
« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2017, 11:20:51 PM »
It's ok if you can make it stop and tell each of them to obey a command. If they ignore you...well.... You own what you condone..(a famous line from a great trainer)
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
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Re: Dog trainers: Am I ok to let this go?
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2017, 07:51:01 PM »
We have a 7/12 yr old lab. and a 4 month old. They wrestle all the time. When the puppy goes to far
the elder lets the little one know, just like a mother would. She now soft bites her. We praise the elder

 


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