Have cocker Spaniels gotten more hyper or is it just mine?

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She loves life and learning and gets excited to the point of hyper over the tiniest thing.

Learning sit? Victory lap round the house and jump on big collie....
Paw? Down? Mega victory lap and double jump on big collie.

My other cocker (though she has been dead 10 years), my collie and my labxcollie are all so easy to work with just calm and quiet.

My sister thinks she has adhd :D

Any tips training for a over excitable pup who loves learning and doing new things?

She gets the right amount of exercise for her age, coming up 8 months.
 
Sounds familiar! My daughter has 2 working cockers, 3 yr old mum and her 7 month daughter. The pup is loopy! I don't think you could wear her out. She is very smart too. The mum was the same but has calmed down quite alot as she has got older.
 
Teaselmeg said:
What are you feeding her ?
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Arden Grange puppy and Simpson puppy. It's the only think she will eat other than burns and that went through her like water. She is very fussy so when.she won't eat one she has the other.

Gets 35 minutes of exercise split between lead walking and off lead as well as learning things at home, currently trying to teach her to retrieve. She gets the chase the ball part but that's it :D she loves scent games where she has to figure things out.
 
I was going to suggest you try to tire out her brain. We hide socks for young lab and she is so good at finding them now (dirty ones :-) ). Biscuits might be easier.
 
Clodagh said:
I was going to suggest you try to tire out her brain. We hide socks for young lab and she is so good at finding them now (dirty ones :-) ). Biscuits might be easier.
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She loves socks,as soon as you take them off she has them and runs around the house happy as Larry :D
 
When I go up to shower young lab comes and stares at my feet like a collie untli I have taken the socks off, balled them up and gone and hidden them. I have to get more and more ingenious as when she finds them she comes in the shower with them to show you. She sits and stays but with a pup you could shut her outside the room while you hide something - in plain sight to start with - and then make it harder and harder.
 
Mine is fairly loopy but very trainable. She picks things up very quickly and loves training sessions.
This past week she has hardly been walked as we have done brain training sessions instead; I thought she'd be manic but is probably more settled. My trainer says that 10mins brain training is equivalent to a two hour walk - not quite sure about that but it definitely tires them out!
 
3Beasties, I agree with that. Young lab is two now but as mad as a box of frogs. I am off this week but watching the racing all afternoon so she gets 3 good walks in the morning. It doesn't even dent her enthusiasm for life but if I do 15 minutes dummy training she is a lamb.
 
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