Sunsets Labrador Retriever Training

Walk with your puppy on a short leash at your side. I train all our new pups to walk on the left, reason being I shoot right handed. Should you plan to hunt your retriever teach them to heel on the opposite side that you shoot. Not planning on hunting your retriever then walk him [...]

The Labrador Retriever Remains America’s Most Popular Dog for the 19th consecutive year. The gentle, intelligent and family-friendly Labrador Retriever from Canada continues to be the most popular breed in the United States, according to AKC® registration statistics. This versatile hunting breed comes in three colors – yellow, black and chocolate – and because of [...]

The command “NO” is the first command your Labrador retriever puppy should learn. Usually your puppy will understand this command by the end of the first day with you. Your puppy will hear this command every time it is doing something wrong. Your puppy comprehends the command by the way you say it. The tone [...]

If you can work on training your Labrador retriever twice a day with 15 minute sessions each time, you will be able to train your Labrador retriever by yourself. It is also a good idea to have family members involved so they can see exactly what you are doing and how it is being done.

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Before we begin our basic training sections I would like to explain my chose of Chisum. For those of you that do not know about Chisum, He was a yellow male Labrador retriever that Arlene and I kept from our last litter. I chose Chisum for several reasons and I will list them in a [...]

Groom your new Labrador retriever puppy regularly and start early. Early grooming not only keeps your puppy clean and looking it’s best but also gets it used to being bathed, toenails being trimmed and his coat brushed. All of our puppies are bathed in the kitchen sink, we use baby shampoo, dry them off with [...]

The breeder where you have purchased your puppy should give you information on how they have been feeding and also what they are feeding. The following is the information on how we feed our puppies, but remember all breeders are different and you should follow their instructions. 

Your puppy is being fed Purina Puppy Chow Original [...]

Start house training the puppy as soon as you bring him home. NEVER LET HIM HAVE THE RUN OF THE HOUSE. He will get into all kinds of trouble and dangerous situations.  Confine him to only one room, usually the kitchen. Think of it as “Child-Proofing”. As soon as you arrive home with him take [...]

Your puppy just came from a warm, safe whelping box. From the moment of birth our puppies sleep only on fleece blankets for extra warmth  (that are changed 4-5, sometimes even 6 times a day) and are under a raised heat lamp continuously for 24/7 & for the whole time they live with us (7-8 [...]

I have been asked why I named our newest male Labrador retriever Chisum? The reason being is that when I was a teenager, which seems many, many, many years ago. I was a big fan of John Wayne movies. Probably my favorite movie was Chisum. The following is a brief description of the movie.  

John Chisum [...]