Dog Health Questions: Dog Training?

I have a lab puppy. He gets really excited and what not and I would like to know what I should do to train him like a seeing eye dog. I feel that these dogs are very smart and that if I train him to be a seeing eye dog it would help me in many situations even though I'm not blind. Also How long would it take me to train him? He is only 5 months old. Any help? List tips and websites to help me please!

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It's normal for a lab puppy to be really active. Most people who train a dog as a seeing eye dog do it to give the dog to a person who is blind. The only thing I can suggest is to try and look up one of those organizations and make contact with the volunteers to see if they'll give you tips on how to train him. I believe that first you have to train him really well in normal obedience. He has to be extremely reliable. That is his first year. Then you spend another year teaching him stuff only seeing eye dogs do.

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• 1) Not every dog can be trained to be a guide dog or assistance dog. The personality trait of the animal matters. You say that your dog has excitability issues. He would be rejected as a guide dog.
  
  2) As this is not a REAL guide dog and you have no disability, you would not be able to take the dog places that guide dogs go, so I hope that isn't what you are thinking of.
  
  3) Guide dogs go through over a year of careful training.
  
  You can still train your dog to be a good and obedient dog, but he will never be a guide dog.


• Service dogs are put into a foster home until they are more than a year old. Then they go through rigorous testing to see if they will be selected for training. Training is done by professionals and takes 1 to 2 years. At this time, even if they complete training, they could wash out. Not all dogs of a breed are meant to be service dogs. Like some are good hunters and other are not. Three things are really required from a pet dog. They are: 1. Don't jump up on guests.
  2. Don't sniff crotches and 3. Come when you are called....no matter what. If you can teach your pet these three things, you got it made.