In article ,
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
It's a little late but with a lab mix myself, [ ... ]

Untrained lab mix, that you've really made a very minimal
effort to train.

One of the biggest problems with Usenet is that when you ask
for advice you don't know whether the answers you get are
coming from people with deep expertise and experience,
someone who read something in a book, or someone who came up
with an unverified crackpot notion of what's going on and
wrote it down.

To the original poster, take your dog to an expert and get
first person help from someone who knows what they're doing.
Ted's not competent to own a dog, let alone give training
advice.
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