Labradors of Austin

04/04/2023

🐶Our puppies are currently 11 weeks old, born on January 18th. They are 🔥thriving🔥, extremely healthy, and full of playful❤️‍🔥 energy.

🥰The puppies have already learned a variety of commands, including 🐿"Sit," 🌃"Go to bed," 🚻"Go potty," 🍗"Go eat," ⚠️"No," "Good," ⛔️"Hey, no," 📣"Whistle recall," 📢"Come when called," 🥎"Play fetch," and waiting✋️ for the 🚥"Go" command when a gate/door is opened.

As of their 11th week, we have established a daily routine🗓 for the puppies that resembles a kindergarten📚 experience for children. This routine includes:

✅️Morning playtime🛝 for several hours, with "Go potty" reinforcement
✅️Sleep, with "Go to bed" reinforcement
✅️Lunch featuring frozen meat🍖, with "Go eat" reinforcement
✅️Sleep, with "Go to bed" reinforcement
Afternoon playtime, with "Go potty" reinforcement
✅️Sleep, with "Go to bed" reinforcement
✅️Early evening training and play, including "Go potty"🧻 reinforcement and fetch🥎 sessions
✅️Dinner consisting of frozen organ meat, with "Go eat" 🥩 reinforcement
✅️Bedtime💤 at 🛏10pm🛌

We emphasize a few well-defined rules🚔 for the puppies to follow, which enables 🤼‍♀️clear communication🤼‍♂️ and helps build their confidence🤸. Through positive reinforcement such as food🥓 and praise❤️, as well as redirection🚷 when necessary, our puppies learn to abide by these ✔️rules. They are also well-socialized🎊, engaging in plenty of play with one another, interacting with our adult Labradors🦮, and becoming acquainted with people👨‍👩‍👧.

We are seeking ♥️loving♥️ puppy parents who appreciate the 🕰time and 🧗effort we have 🥹dedicated to raising our puppies. They are ready to join their forever 🏡homes and will continue to learn new skills🏆 under our care until they do. Our ongoing 🥇training🥋 will further enhance their abilities, setting them up for ✅️success✅️ in their future lives, one day📆 at a time📅.

25/03/2023

Puppies got tired from eating and playing all day long.

25/03/2023

having dinner. Best by test to get super shiny coats for our labrador retriever puppies.

24/03/2023

🐶Puppies' First Time Playing Fetch🎾

This is how we teach our puppies to play fetch! 😃 We're simply building upon two things:

1️⃣ Prey instinct: their natural drive to catch something 🐾
2️⃣ Whistle recall: their training from birth to come when they hear the whistle 📣

As you can see, training multiple dogs 🐕🐕 is much easier than just one. With multiple dogs, only one dog has to do it right, and the rest learn from the positive experience of getting it right 😎.

It's essential to be super gentle 💖 with the puppies when they make mistakes, and even more so to pet 🤗 and praise 🎉 when they do it right, even if it's just slightly right. This builds up their confidence to follow verbal cues and pays off big time 🌟 years down the road.

With puppies, you just need to have a lot of patience 😌 and treat the training from the perspective of a 9-week-old puppy: they're just out there to have fun 🎉!

22/03/2023

We continue to train the remaining puppies on our daily routine, just have not had the time to record the day. It's been raining and we spent most of the day mopping up the beds and floor. 😩 aaah, the joy of having puppies. 😅 Puppies are doing great. Our runt is slowly becoming a chihuahua in standing up for himself. It is hard to blame him. The rest of the litter has grown a lot, as much as twice the size of the runt, and he gets bullied during play, so we think he's overcompensating with food aggression when feeding. We're correcting this with no. And our runt is responding to our command, so is the rest of the litter. This is how they behave when they eat as of tonight. At least 4 of the puppies are more interested in playing. :D They're all pretty happy and confident puppies. In the next few days, if weather permits, we'll be teaching the pups to play fetch. They are starting to show interest in going after the ball. :) We hope you enjoy our puppy update. Please don't hesitate to message us if you have questions.

16/03/2023

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14/03/2023

Photos update! Puppies are turning 8 weeks old. They will be getting their first dose of 5+1 vaccine shots this weekend. All pups are doing great! We are introducing the ball, and they will be learning how to play fetch next week!

14/03/2023

Here's what our puppies do all day long if they aren't sleeping or chewing on frozen food: PLAY... lots of play!

You might see us training them, but that's literallt less than 1% of the day. Our mantra on puppy care is to have FEW RULES so they neither get scared nor confused and to have LOTS OF PLAY... with siblings, mom, other adult dogs, all kinds of people.

Our goal is to build an educated puppy who understands basic commands for a functional relationship with humans: GOOD, NO, HEY NO, COME/WHISTLE, GO POTTY, GO, GO TO BED. These commands alone, though rudimentary, will enable the puppy to understand what's going on. Now, what naturally happens is you will eventually build beyond these commands as the years go by. And that's great!

11/03/2023

Whistle recall and "Go To Bed" are pretty solid commands now.

10/03/2023

Puppies have perfected "go to bed". You simply need to repeat what we did using vienna sausage. It's pretty cheap. We used 6 cans to train 10 puppies.

We are still taking reservations for our pups.

10/03/2023

We're having fun watching the puppies play. This is pretty much all they do, play... lots of play.

09/03/2023

Just playing with the puppies. :) They make the day brighter, always.

09/03/2023

One the things we do to help regulate bite on puppies.

08/03/2023

Puppies can now "go to bed" on command. You simply repeat what I have done. They know come, but I use the whistle just because the sound travels much farther.

05/03/2023

Here's Mars the mommy, she's almost 4 years old. This is the behavior we want to get when being touched while eating.

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05/03/2023

Training our puppies by desensitizing them to human touch while they eat. This involves petting, distracting, and pestering them slightly so that they learn not to react aggressively if a toddler or other person touches them while they eat. The only rule that they need to learn is never to bite a human hand, no matter what. This is a crucial lesson, especially considering that these puppies will eventually grow up to become large adult labrador retrievers.

In the long run, this training will benefit everyone involved, as it will prevent the puppies from hurting someone accidentally. And dogs do snap by accident, only to feel sorry later for what they have done. We want to eliminate this from ever happening. This type of early puppyhood education is essential to ensure their proper behavior when they are older.

We also expose the puppies to different people, noises, and environments to ensure that they learn to associate the human touch with exploration of the world and positive experiences. This way, we can test what they have learned at home and to build positive association with people.

Our approach to puppy rearing is based on patience, empathy, communication, and a few simple rules. We understand that training puppies requires a high degree of awareness, and we strive to make split-second decisions that are in their best interest.

We believe that each puppy deserves a significant amount of human touch, which is why we post videos of our training sessions. Our goal is to be transparent and show potential puppy owners what happens to our puppies while in our care. If you share our passion for dogs, please contact us to reserve a puppy. We want to our puppies to go to a great home. At final analysis, that's what matter the most to us.

05/03/2023

Walking with the puppies at our relatives home. :) Just exposing them to the car, other people, and environment. :)

05/03/2023

Fun at the park!