DOG FAQ - Are Labrador Retrievers hyper?

Labrador Retrievers are active dogs especially in puppy hood. And Labrador Retrievers 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 Retriever 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 Labs will shape up into good pets.

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