African Violets and Gesneriads: New Years Blooms, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
Yes, he is a sweetheart of a Giant dog. My sister and her husband also have a yellow lab that weighs 105 and a black lab/chow mix that weighs right at 95. Big dogs that have NO TRAINING! They are all lovable critters but it always scares me to be around them because they are like a pack of 3 year olds vying for attention! They knock each other out of the way trying to get petted, and jump around ... I am always so scared of getting knocked down and breaking a leg or something! They don't know sit, stay, or the word no, LOL. My BIL always jokes about the lab flunking out of puppy kindergarden. He's the only one they took to puppy obedience training and they never reinforced it. We have always been a big dog type family but my DH and I believe in obedience training ... and I think it's REALLY important with the large breed dogs. It's almost impossible to control them on a leash when they want to do things their way and drag you along!