Zoetje’s Labradors
Labradors - The Breed
Behavior
Are Labradors hyperactive?
Labs with correct temperament are never hyperactive. Individual dogs can be. However, Labradors are active dogs especially in puppy hood. And Labradors often do not fully mature until around 3 years of age! This means you will have a dog that is mentally a puppy (with a puppy’s energy), until this age regardless of its physical size! Often a Labrador puppy is labeled hyperactive when it is simply a normal, exuberant and bouncy puppy. If you are prepared to deal with this period of time in their lives, you will not have problems. It is the people caught unprepared who then label their puppy hyperactive and incorrigible and dump it.
We would like to stress that such dogs, untrained and unexercised, WILL be a huge problem for their owners, becoming destructive, unmanageable, and in many cases escape artists. Once under proper discipline (which does NOT mean beating the dog!), most of these Labradors will shape up into good pets.
Labradors don’t bark a lot
Bored Labradors can, but excessive barking is not generally typical of the breed. Labradors often give a warning bark in response to an unusual event that they feel needs your attention, such as “Hey, a car pulled into the driveway!”
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