Hi guys, first of all to treat the puppies must be patient, when you complain that it did something wrong, do not forget to do it on the number of the day, but do not forget it's just a dog born before dozens of days, it deep affection and trust you is an indispensable basis for any training.

Not fair! You tell us about your beautiful puppy, but don't share any pictures! :-)

One of the absolute best training resources out there is Karen Pryor Clickertraining - I'm sure you'll find good advice there.

Absolutely not fair!

Bring the pictures!

I know it will take lots of patience and love and it is hard when they eat your new shoes, furniture, etc.

I don't know much but do know it is not about 'NO' and 'punishing' because they don't understand this as much as they do 'GOOD' and the puppy sounds like it needs to get lots of exercise to use up all that energy and to have chewing toys!

Good luck - and remember the p-i-c-t-u-r-e-s...

First, get this book:
Amazon.com: How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend: A Training Manual for Dog Owners (9780316604918): New Skete Monks: Books

In the meantime, when your puppy bites, tell it NO! and stop doing what you are doing with it. If you're playing with it, stop playing and make sure you never reward biting. Instead, turn your back and ignore it.

For chewing, puppies chew, that's what they do. So you need to make sure it knows what's OK to chew on. You need to have a box of stuff that is OK for your pup to chew on. Do NOT use old shoes or anything else your puppy may confuse with other things it can't chew.

Whenever you see it chewing on something it shouldn't, say NO and immeditately replace it with something it is allowed to chew on. Then when it chews on something "good" that you gave it, be sure to reward him/her with a "Good Puppy!".

For leash training, put the lease on it's collar right away and let it run around with the leash to get used to having it on. If it bites at the leash add a little tobasco sauce. This is better than you having to discipline the puppy for biting the leash and the puppy won't think you're doing anything and will very quickly learn not to bite the leash.

I think that maybe my egiude "Smart Beyond Obedience" is still in the WSO section. It teaches you how to teach your dog both the little things like sit and stay all the way up to complex ideas such as "Get ready to go" (which the dog will respond to by finding and bringing his leash, collar, your shoes and whatever else you taught him to take. I taught Munch about different "goes" - go for a ride, go swimming, go hiking - and he was able to bring whatever particular items we would take on those specific "goes".

It also covers some behavior problems and how to deal with them.

Don't just teach him to be obedient, it's time consuming but easy to teach them to communicate - and very rewarding.

I just got an older dog last year that was never really talked to outside of "go bye-bye" and "dinner". He's talking with me a lot now - he's learning very fast and is very communicative now that he knows someone is actually listening to what he is saying.

We have two labs I love them but puppies are hard make it through the first three years you are golden

please share at least a single picture of your puppy.

edit: never mind. bad joke