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.