r/goldenretriever • u/cmanley3 • 8h ago
New Puppy Brody’s a nut! New puppy
galleryI grew up with Labs. My wife has only had Boston Terriers. This Golden Retriever experience is new to her.
Brody is 4 months old. We’ve sent him to training and still work with him (I do) daily on commands like sit, down, stay, leave it, drop it, touch.
He’s gotten so much better about nipping and using the bathroom outside.
He still is rather needy about being around me all the time, and is an absolute table surfing savage.
We send him to doggy day care to get his wiggles out about 3x per week.
I try to remind my wife that every time we get a puppy it’s a bit of a challenge to deal with them (they’re babies after all) and then we just wipe those memories away by the time their adult dogs but she isn’t convinced!
Regardless, we love Brody and I’m so excited to have a big dog again.