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Lab swimming question
Hi Ladies
I mostly lurk this board, but thought I would come to you with a question.
We have a 6 month old yellow lab and she LOVES to be in the water. We are super happy with how quickly she took to swimming and jumping into the water. However last weekend was the first time we actually were in the water with her.
Well I guess all of our retrieving training has paid off, because she thinks she needs to retrieve us from the water when we are swimming.
We want to nip this in the butt right away, as we don't want her to hurt or accidentally drown someone (esp kids). Any suggestions for getting her to swim without attacking people? (By attack, I mean she wants to be right up on you in the water, if you are swimming, she will swim right up your back and take you by surprise, she is pretty fast, or she will try and climb you while treading water and wants to get you to go back to the shore.)
Re: Lab swimming question
We tryed stay, which she is good at obeying, but I will try Leave it. We are going to mil's cottage next week, and the water is a lot shallower there, so we will be able to work on her more there hopefully!!