How would you handle ?

[Jimbo B]

Nothing here is a lie or exaggerated.
I take Moses to the dog park around 7am today .. before it gets busy or hot
Always get complements how lucky I am to have a dog like Moses
He bonds with me perfectly at the park comes when I say come he come.. retrieves like a maniac and the Frisbee king
And the least confrontational of all dogs (he just wants other dogs to love him)
We come home
I go food shopping
When I am unloading the grocery's out of the car and pick up the news paper and leave it on the table out side
I put the groceries away Moses lets himself outside
When I go outside i see the news paper is all over then yard (Shit!)
OK I realize this is my fault (also Moses is not a counter surfer) in the kitchen he just likes to destroy at times
I know how he gets when you try to correct him I just got a bag and started picking up the many sheets of Paper on the lawn
Moses is running around me in circles trying to take the paper i am picking up out of my hand and nipping my hand ( this is really getting me PO)When he gets like this he won't listen to anything (this happens a lot)
You can't grab him and can be nice you can't be mad
If you turn to walk away he will bounce on your butt and nip you (how I despise it when he get like this)
I wish I did not have a dog
How would you handle..?
Right now for the past 3 hours he has been an angel and I don't know what I would do with out him

[Snowshoe]

Sounds like just a wee bit too much exuberance in the zoomies. My way of handling zoomies is to encourage them, give them a name, GO, ZOOM, GO, stand in a safe place so I can't be knocked over and just enjoy watching the action. At the beginning zoomies are on the dog's time schedule but pretty soon, once he learned the word, I could incite them when I wanted them to happen. It does help to ask for zoomies at the dog's preferred time and for Oban that is just after we get home and he's supposed to be tired out from the walk but seems to need that last hurrah. And after he's gotten wet.

The wee bit too much part is the nipping. If my dog is going to nip then I do not allow any teeth on skin at any time, no matter how gentle it might be sometimes. Once the teeth make contact a game is over, I quit, take my ball and go home. I might use strong, loud language, which I reserve for extra bad behaviour. BAD DOG. For me it's always bad dog and good boy. Never bad boy and good dog, I have no idea if this impacts the dog but it helps me.

If I was pretty sure dog would start nipping zoomies while I picked up paper I'd put him in the house first.

If you "realize this is my fault" then why would you "try to correct him?"

[Jimbo B]

Sounds like just a wee bit too much exuberance in the zoomies. My way of handling zoomies is to encourage them, give them a name, GO, ZOOM, GO, stand in a safe place so I can't be knocked over and just enjoy watching the action. At the beginning zoomies are on the dog's time schedule but pretty soon, once he learned the word, I could incite them when I wanted them to happen. It does help to ask for zoomies at the dog's preferred time and for Oban that is just after we get home and he's supposed to be tired out from the walk but seems to need that last hurrah. And after he's gotten wet.

The wee bit too much part is the nipping. If my dog is going to nip then I do not allow any teeth on skin at any time, no matter how gentle it might be sometimes. Once the teeth make contact a game is over, I quit, take my ball and go home. I might use strong, loud language, which I reserve for extra bad behaviour. BAD DOG. For me it's always bad dog and good boy. Never bad boy and good dog, I have no idea if this impacts the dog but it helps me.

If I was pretty sure dog would start nipping zoomies while I picked up paper I'd put him in the house first.

If you "realize this is my fault" then why would you "try to correct him?"

Not 100 % positive but it is not the zoomies
It is a habit Moses had as a pup
My other two labs if they did something bad I would say WHO DID THIS????
They would be mortified
With Moses it is.. (HEY I did it so what I will do it again )
Moses always hated to be corrected
I Really did not try to correct him I was just trying to pick up the paper.

Appreciate your comments but really no help on this matter
Please by no means take that as a negative comment
I am here to find out how to correct and how I should handle properly with positive results

[Maxx&Emma]

Oh Moses, how I love your bad boy behavior! (Sorry Jimbo!)

I do agree with Snowshoe, my 2 get crazy with zoomies but there is no teeth on skin allowed. I also remove myself and this makes my dogs sad, thankfully I can't remember the last time that happened. Maybe removing yourself quietly, without giving Moses any attention at all (negative or positive), would help. Perhaps he will get the message without punishing you!

[bett]

Sounds like Moses failed one of his training classes.
start over and he sounds like a bright enough dog,so I suspect, on a leash, he won't have the opportunity to act so silly and puppy- like. Then, when you feel he may have gotten the point, try him off his leash again.

[Labradorks]

If this is common, I'd stop putting him in the position to continue doing it. Ripping up the paper is self-reinforcement and it is now a game.

Then, while you were trying to clean it up, I would have put him in the house as soon as he acted up, before you got mad and before the dog got himself riled up.