These comments are proof that people don't listen. These aren't treats he's giving this puppy...in fact he went on about a 90 second trail about how you should NOT use tons of treats to train your puppy. What he's using is the puppy's regular food. About half of his daily food. In fact if you're using any amount of training treats to train your puppy, you're feeding yours more than he's feeding this one. I stole this technique from him, and it worked beautifully with my black lab puppy. I also would mix in a few actual training treats as well, just because. A little advice-before you write a comment that is going to make yourself look like you have the cognitive ability of a 5 year old, you might wanna make sure you're assessment of what's going on is accurate.

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Followed your technique with my 10 week puppy and she responded GREAT! She was a naughty, overexcited puppy but now she sits when she's supposed to, and is more calm. Thank you so much for the great tips!

I know this comment is way late but I watched these videos before I actually got a black lab puppy. It has been awesome and my dog "River" is the envy of all my friends that have dogs. He is such a good dog. Thank you so much for your time and professionalism Sir.

Tip on using ration to increase treat repetition is BRILLIANT. Why didn’t I think of this? I’m using it now, and it’s freaking working. Love this dude!

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God, i have a lil 3 months old Labrador, I've started this method 3 hours ago and, by feeding him only when he succeeds and listens to me, he seems to already understand "Sit" and "Up" ! Like, in 3 hours, already understanding that ! That is awesome ! Thank you a lot ! I will try to make him understand when I wave my hand he has to do a certain thing.

I must say, we got our 7 week old lab and today is day 4th with her and this technique has worked wonders. I started watching the series a few weeks prior and now I’m just going back through to make sure I didn’t miss anything. She’s already following commands such as sit, down, come and potty. Thanks for taking the time and teaching us a good way to work with our lab puppies.

I have watched this video and the other videos in this series several times. I have a nine week old lab puppy that I have begun training using your methods. Although it has only been a week, he is already following this pattern of stand, sit, wave, and down. I just want to say that your videos are pure puppy training GOLD! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and insight with us. I hope to be able to come to one of your training courses and perhaps use your online puppy course in the future.

Stonnie Dennis I adopted my first lap pup over Memorial Day weekend and have been following your advice. Everyone has ben telling me how well behaved our pup is and the Vet just told us he was the most well behaved 4 month old puppy they've ever seen. Thank you for sharing your expertise!

I’m about to get my self a 8 week lab. And with every video I watched so far all they do is give them treats non stop just for being a dog. But this guy actually understands why you should give them treats. Thank you as well just for this little video because as soon as I get my pup home first thing I’m gonna do it try to teach her to be calm if I’m not giving her attention.

I just came across your videos and oh my gosh I love how you treat the pupups! You're so down to earth and not overly "I Must dominate this dog to show it whos boss!" You make it fun for them and I love that!

Stonnie, I got myself a black lab puppy Gypsy that is 8 weeks today. Love your videos and I have been watching them in preparation for her coming home. We are at day three and she is doing great. We are still in good student week and we are having fun.

Wow! I just watched this video a few hours ago and my 11 week old lab puppy is already listening so much better! Sweet, simple techniques ! Can’t wait to watch much more of your videos

thank you for this Stonnie! This and all your other Labrador and DOG in general training lessons have helped me a bunch with training my new 10 week old black lab Oli! Evie xx

Ahhh man…your video brings back fond memories of years gone by… I love my labs ❤️ they’re smart puppies

Love these old Stonnie videos

Picking up our first dog in 2 weeks : a white lab. Glad I came across these videos. Will be very useful. Thanks.

I don't even have a dog

Our lab boy is coming home on July 24th! Here beforehand to get some tips and learn a bit. Thank you so much, this was simple and thorough

Thanks Stonnie! This series is what I send all my clients!

I'm getting a Labrador retriever. He's 5 weeks old at the moment, I'll be taking him home once he's 8 weeks old. He's a beautiful little black dog called Monty. I can't wait to start training him following your methods! Your puppy looks so happy to be doing it, which I realise now is the main thing!

Just bought my second lab puppy yesterday he’s 7 weeks old. Thank you for these methods I’ve tried a lot for my first lab and she a great house dog. I’m eager to use your training on this one.

Needed this as I worked from home. My puppy keeps going into negative behavior loops to get attention. Going to incorporate this into our training!

So happy to have found your lab puppy series. I have an unruly 4 month old lab.

Just wanted to say thank you for your videos. Slowly but surely working with my new lab puppy.

i finally i got a lab puppy

Very solid videos, Stonnie. Just watching your channel has helped me tremendously. Thx!

Omg thank you so much! This pup is learning now! So excited for us

I’m back five years later re watching and refreshing as we welcome our new lab puppy this friday😁

stonnie! getting my little yellow lab this weekend. watching your videos, the way you break them down, makes me feel like I might be able to raise a great dog, thanks. good student week starts in 3 days.

Look at you, you look so young. I love your work Stonnie.

I have a 9 week old black lab! Awesome videos and so far everything is going awesome with my Bronn!

Love your training philosophy, great video

Great advice!!! ❤️👌 this is genius!!! Best puppy video I’ve ever seen!!! So real!! So intuitive!!! I love this!!! ❤️🙏

My puppy is ten weeks old and I fell into the “puppy blues “ badly. I feel very inadequate. Watching this and idk, I hope I can do this like you. This pup is the dream of my husband and kids and I’m trying so hard 💛

Just started this series. We just got our lab puppy he is 7 weeks old. We've started simply thing food prices for coming to us, responding to no, and just paying attention. He sleeps most of the time now lol so its sporadic. But I really want to work through your series I love your style of training! Best video I've watched since we got him and deciding how we want to train him!

This Guy knows his stuff!! Brilliant

This guy makes great videos. Super helpful and explanatory.

My wife and I are getting a lab soon looking forward to using your training videos to help train our incoming pup.

Such a great video. We are about to get our first lab puppy and will defiantly be trying this out! Thanks!

getting my lab next week and he's jyst under three months. can't wait to see those hints evolve into a trained smart dog. I had a desert dog years ago and they're not famous for being smart. I figured getting a lab would help out lots more as they're quit smart as is. I'm glad I caught this channel on KZfaq.

Great training tips. Love your videos

Watched this three years ago man did this help me as like a base form of training all i needed was the give dog food and the give treat for being still man my dog is the best! Thanks brother man 😎 this should work on mostly all dogs

Yeah this is the style of training i have used to great success. I don’t feed my pups from a bowl it all goes in the training pouch and i use this method throughout the day the bonding it creates is amazing and you don’t get an over fed pup.

You sir, are the man. Very helpful stuff.

We just got Chanel yesterday and she’s as sweet as can be. And of course she’s the prettiest black lab 💜

3 mins in and i love this vid , never thought about feeding like that

Im sure you’re giving amazing advice but all I have taken from this video is that you have a really cute lab

Very useful video . Not like others . Straight to the important points . Clear . Thanks for the efforts of this videos .

Hey Stonnie this is a really great video thanks for the tips. I just got a lab puppy and I’m looking forward to competing your series.

I like the idea of keeping 50% of the food for treats. We started giving our almost 2 year old his food for "treats" about a year ago but never thought about using 50% of it for treats. We will do that from now on. Thanks for this great video.

thanks Stonnie! Beautiful lab!

I got my first dog as an adult. You are calming me down on my training. I have been researching and trying to learn for a long time. Now Im trying to implement to much to soon. I don't need competition obedience but I like the idea of a consistently obedient dog. Im only watching your videos from now on.

After researching dogs for a couple of years I spent another year looking how to train it before we even got a puppy by watching 100's and 100's of videos before bed every night. We now have a 6 month old chocolate lab we have been training for about 4 months and solely thanks to you 'good student week' I have the best behaved dog around. His name is Benson and I would love to share a video you with Stoney because you are the reason behind it! I just wish we could bring Benson to you for a few weeks of training to really consolidate and master some of the skills but your half way around the world 😅 Anyway, just rambling on now, thank you again and let me know how I can send you a video!

I like your relaxed but yet effective style! Getting my first Labrador puppy soon. Keeping busy watching your videos in the meantime. Thank you for showing the way. 👍

We just adopted a yellow lab puppy to be a companion for our son/family dog. Thank you for the lesson

easily the best videos on training dogs. learned a lot. don't have a dog yet, but this is great. thank you sir. no one comes close to you

I just got a balck lab my first dog I found your instruction very helpful

Hi just want to thank you for a great video. I really enjoyed and learned a lot. Keep the excellent work up!

awesome! I need to use these tips in future to my 7 week old black lab.

Heading out to pick up our new black lab puppy, Millie! Planning to follow Stonnie's tips... watch this spot 😁

Nice. To see Alan from the hangover has straightened himself out

Thank you for this content. Very helpful for training our lab pup

Really getting into your videos. Picking up a black lab pup in January. Surprising kids!

Outstanding training video. Thank you!

getting a lab soon gonna teach him some of these thanks for the help

I LOVED THIS VIDEO GOOD INFORMATION

We just got a chocolate lab named Henery. Your videos are very informative. Thank you.

This is an awesome video! Listen to this guy!

I really like your philosophy behind training puppies/ dogs.

at what age do you recommend starting this "work ethic" and "impulse control" training?

Brilliant... on the money..

Hey Stonnie I think that you have a great channel and was wondering what kind of treats you feed your dogs

WOW!!! Great video and great ideas!!! Thank you

This is great! A couple questions - do you train once a day or during each feeding session (three times a day)? do you use the first 50% on training, and then let him eat the remaining out of the bow, or vice versa? Also, this is part one but I noticed your lab is 11 weeks, is it ok to use this method at 8 weeks?

Great explanation, thank you!

labs are such cool pups and are pretty easy to train

Utterly superb this boy

I'm so happy I'm getting a chocolate lab in 2 weeks and I'm so excited

Hey Stonnie, first off great videos, very helpful. I have a question. I have a beautiful 4 month old Chesador lab, she is very smart and doing great just working with her 30 mins a day. my biggest fault I am having is a strong "come" command. she listens in and around the house/property but when I take her to the river or woods she plays this catch me if you can game. can you please give me some tips to strengthen that command. Thank you

Great video!

Hey Stonnie..LOVE your videos. I trained a lab over 14 years ago...It WAS SO HARD!!!! I just got a new lab puppy and I discovered you! PRAISE GOD!!! His training is going so simply and beautifully. THANK YOU!!! and I have a question. What leash are you using...brand, size? I just received a An English slip leash today..it seems SO BIG compared to what you have and for my puppy. THANK YOU for your response.

Brilliant advice

I'm bringing home a little black lab girl next weekend, on the 25th. I'm going to eat sleep and breathe this series!! I got my last dog when I was young and dumb, and even though she was a fantastic family dog, we did NOT train her the way we should have initially. She was 15 when we had to put her down and I miss her terribly. Anyway, I'm sooo determined not screw up the training with this one!

Good info and solid video .

He’s making it look so easy!

Another great video. Question, what treats are you using Stonnie?

@Stonnie Dennis this is really great advice. My wife and I just got a lab who is 8 weeks old. We have had him for 5 days and we are struggling to get him to listen. How often should you do this exercise?

you have swag

Great video for the new black lab I got

Your instruction videos are really cool! :-)

Great video lots of information that we can follow what treets are you using

Thanks!

I like your approach. Watched a few in this series, I'm getting a new pup and will be using these techniques. The pup looks a little older, so when should I start my training...8wks, 6-7 months?

stonnie love your videos, what are you feeding the puppy's as you are training them

Great! I wish I had watched this when I first got my puppy. I have been giving treats. I hope she does well with puppy food now. Or maybe half and half for a while, then full puppy food. We'll see

I adopted a 3 year old brown labrador and hes the greatest. I slowly got the hang of training using clickers treats and patience. He improved so much over a short span of time and learned alot of behaviours thats expected from dogs, and even went beyond doing tricks like standing on back legs or rolling over. But using food for training was not very effective. It seemed as he saw the daily food as FOOD, and would allways be too stressed to train the tricks we wanted using food as treat. And i did try it while he just ate, and after exersize aswell, so he was drained and not starving. Im no professional but using seperate treats, purchased or sosage(i know high in salt, so in small doses) is what works best for us. I do like the thought behind it tho, and if i ever get a pup i will definetly try it out. Great video btw, i like your theories

Hey Stonnie, we just got a 7 week old lab pup, female. At what age do you recommend I start training her using your methods? Do you have any more comprehensive training videos for purchase? Really like your training style. Thank you!

How do I stop my puppy from barking in order to give him treats? If I give her a treat she will think it is correct behaviour when she barks. Thanks Stonnie - awesome videos.