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Let's talk about raising lab puppies. For the most part, when you get a lab puppy, it's
going to be already weaned, which is generally about after six weeks of age. That is a very
important time between six and twelve weeks of age to where they have to learn their environment
and what their adulthood and you know the way they interact with things kind of becomes...
or starts from there. So at those young ages, it's very important to start them out early
and train them. So raising a lab puppy can be challenging because the grow quickly. They
can get quite big. They can be destructive. They're a fairly mouthy breed and they like
to test everything with their mouths. So the first thing with raising a lab puppy is going
to be good nutrition; check with your veterinarian. There are large breed growth foods on the
market by multiple companies and so you don't want to feed a regular puppy diet because
it's too caloric. The other thing you want to do is keep them occupied. You know, bones,
chew toys, things like that are always good. You want to start training them very early
too. Get them to sit. Get them to stay. Those start reinforcing commands and reinforcing
the fact that they have to listen to you. Leash training is great when they're very
young also and, you know, getting them to basically behave because when one of these
guys... when Labradors get large, and if they don't have a lot of manners or a lot of training,
then they can be sometimes quite troublesome. So nutrition and interactivity are two very
important things when raising a lab puppy.