I have a male 16 month old yellow lab, and there are a few things that I need help with.

1) Getting him to immediantly follow commands like sit, down, and stay, without the use of treats. With treats, he's very quick to respond, but without, it takes a little more work.

2) Getting him to stay until I release him. Sometimes just a few minutes after I give the command, he'll get up and wonder off.

3) Getting him to be more gentle around kids. My mom does daycare, and today I let him outside when some of the kids were out there, and he was jumping all around and running in to them.

4) The last one, that I can think of at the moment, is getting him to stop eating poop. I feed him Sensible Choice Lamb Meal & Rice Reduced Calorie Dog Food, 1 cup at around 8:30 a.m. and 1 cup at around 8:30 p.m. He also gets treats during the day. We try to keep an eye on him when he is outside so we can see where he poops, but we can't watch him all he time.

Thanks for your help.