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I recently adopted a 12 - now 13 week old black lab puppy. She has two habits that i can't seem to rid her of. One, she keeps uprooting our potted plants. She doesn't chew them. she just pulls them out of their pots. we've tried putting the pots on plant stands, tables, or benches. She just knocks them over.

Also, she barks, non stop, if she is outside and wants to come in. When i say nonstop, i mean she will start up and not stop for hours. My vfet reccomened an anti- bark collar. My only concern is that i want her to bark at appropriate times - just not all of the time.

Has anyone had any experience with this?

For the plant problem- I'd teach a "leave it" command. I'd also crate her when not bein able to supervise her from getting into them.

For the barking- no puppy of that age should be outside for hours left alone to bark. Again, use a crate and crate train her. She'll sleep peacefully in a crate and when it's time to come out and play, she'll be rested and not anxious. Also, she needs walks and constructive play time to wear her out between crate time.
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She knows the command "drop it." She understands "no." "leave it" still needs some work. We take 3 or 4 20 minute walks during the course of the day. She spends most of her time inside, however I have a 6 year old lab mix that prefers to spend his time outside. She will often run to the glass patio door and bark to go out and play with him.

Keeping her inside will solve the outdoor barking problem. However, it still leaves me with the issue of the barking out the door for 3 hours to go outside and play.

Thanks for the advice. I will try the "leave it command" and work on trying to increase kennel time. Perhaps if i find a toy she is really fond of, it will stop the kennel barking.

This worked for my lab I taught him to Bark on command and that got his out of control BArking under control.
Sara

Thanks for the tip. You have a beautiful lab. My puppy is a black lab too. Clooney's pretty sharp, so i could probably teach her to bark on command.

I agree i think teaching her to speak could solve your problem my chocolate lab rebel used to do alot of barking, since he learned speak he only barks if he wants to go in from the back yard (and he only barks once) or when someone walks into the house at a odd time. We beleive he already scared someone away that tried to get in for unknown reasons. The digging i used to have problems with also after tellng him no and ointing to the hole a few times he figured it out but he is brilliant lol.