My Chocolate Labradors Bad Eating, and other Dog, Habits

Excited when we come in like an exuberant greeting "Hi, Hi, Hi!".
We've trained him to get his Kong ball. That's helped a little. We've trained him (sort of) to let us put our stuff down before we say "Hi, Hi, HI!" back. Even if he's not jumping, he can still knock over a toddler, or knock them back out the door, in his excitement. If he were able this greeting would like more like a hug than jumping. He really likes everyone, it just doesn't look like it.

Bark and jumps on the window if he's inside.
Barks and and jumps on the deck rail when we are outside.
Or pulls on his leash when an owner/dog come within 500 yards of us, and he would bark and jump on them too, if given half a chance.

Lab-sized bombs everywhere.
Hanging mid-air in evergreen shrubs.
On top of flowers like my already struggling rose bush..
Underneath the swing set and at the ends of the play slides.
As you can imagine they they invariably get stepped on by toddlers.
Then there is the miraculous reappearance of the a fore-mentioned items in "His Eating Habits" chapter above.

Yellow grass near the fence lines.
Near the hot tub.
Puddles on the end of the play slides. Not under them. On them.
Next to my Flower pots.
Maybe a yellow-sided shrub or 2, or 3, or 4. You get the idea.

We are trying to train him to "go to the weeds".
See the ribbon grass garden planted for this very purpose in background above.
Mildly successful with the praise and bribes of treats.
As long as treats are shown, but not said yet.
We're working on that.
And we have to be in the yard most times.
We're working that, too.

Despite all this we love him dearly. He is a wonderful addition to our now empty nest family.

Even the cat loves him.

Well...
maybe not.