How to teach your dog to stay around the house and not run away?

The safest method is a fence, because Retreivers are friendly and will want to follow people, if they are sitting on the porch, alone. However, some steps to take:

1. Get the dog fixed to discourage roaming.

2. Take the dog on 30 - 60 min walks everyday, so that he gets plenty of exercise and so that he gets to learn the area... if he does walk off.

3. Teach him to have a perfect "Come !"

4. Try not to leave him alone for the first 9 months.

I have a 7 year old Golden. For the first year (even after getting him fixed), he wanted to dig out of the back yard, just to go roaming. He wouldn't go far, and he would come back

but it was scary.

After he was 2.5 years old he calmed down a little. I currently walk him off-leash everyday. But if he sees someone, he wants to go say hello. And if he sees a squirrel, he will chase it and bark at it, until I drag him away.

But when he runs away... he will always try to find me and to come back...

Invisible fence, or preferably, a real life visible fence.....while it is possible to train the dog to stay in the yard, even the most well trained dog has been known to run off because they see a squirrel or a cat or another dog walking by, and poof- just like that your dog is out in the street - following the scent of the garbage truck or whatever and you get to come home from work or school 7 or 8 hours later and find him gone, or worse case scenario pass his remains lying on the side of the road where he got hit by a car....Me, I'd keep him inside or get a fence.

The other answers are very good. Training is a plus. But you could also, when you get the puppy walk him or her in the area you only want them walking and that would teach it the area of where it can play. But I would just keep an eye for awhile on the puppy. You don't always need a fence. My parents never had one and we have had many dogs taught by this routine. Have fun with your new puppy all the best of luck!!

We did this with our two dogs. When they are puppies let them hang outside with you, in the front yard and back without a leash. Puppies seem to naturally follow their new human parents. Whe our dog would venture toward the street we would say ," no " and lead them away from the street. I we did this daily. She is now 4. She will not leave our yards. We do leave her outside with the gate shut when we leave. In fact one day this punk next door opened my gate and my dog didn't leave. She was sitting on the drive wondering where we were. Some people make the mistake of making the front yard this mysterious and forbidden zone that dogs want to see whenever that door opens. Trust me you don't want to be a HURRY UP SHUT THE DOOR!!. type person. Give it a try. It worked for us. Good luck. : ) Oh we have a golden. Great dogs. Everyone loves them.

You are making an awesome choice in buying a puppy! I am the very proud owner of a Black Lab named Riley, who by the way is 9 years old. Any kind of training takes patience and time but well worth it! We trained our dogs with consistency and a shock collar. Be for you judge me on the shock collar thing, let me tell you how it should be used. We have owned several Labs over the years and have trained them for Field trials. I had a hard time with the shock collar thing until I educated myself. The shock collar is NOT to be used for punishment!!!!! If it is used for its correct purpose, it is an awesome training tool. Riley is even trained to use the bathroom only around the perimeter of the yard!

either get a fence or please dont do that, no matter how well you have a dog trained or the dog listens to you, it is still a dog and things can still spark his interest! what if another person with a dog walks by, or a cat runs by, or childern run by..the dog may decide that he wants to go after any of those things and you might not be able to stop him....and then you might be on the side of the road scraping your dog off the pavement. get a fence or dont get a dog

Huskies have a mind of their own. They don't care if you bring them back a hundred times they want to run free and do as they please if they can get away. It is not a good idea to do that because huskies have high prey drives and will kill small animals which could get your dog into trouble with animal services. Also you run the chance of losing your husky or risk it getting hit by a car. Every site about huskies usually says they are not off leash dogs.

A dog should be trained on how to eat, walk with you, not to bark, potty training and sleep on its place etc. You can teach anything to your puppy, dogs get trained easily with some good instructions. If you want some good training tips visit https://tr.im/XCvCx

If properly trained, they should also understand whistle and gesture equivalents for all the relevant commands, e.g. short whistle or finger raised sit, long whistle or flat hand lay down, and so on.

It's important that they also get gestures and whistles as voice may not be sufficient over long distances and under certain circumstances.

You may try an invisible fence. I personally don't like them though. We like a regular fence.

All dogs will take off when they see something that interest them. I wouldn't just trust that the dog will stay in the yard.

It's called a FENCE