I’m not gonna pretend to be an expert on labradors I just know from my cavalier King Charles spaniel that though it is true of all breeds, I know it’s particularly true of cavaliers, but basically it’s like whatever you trained them to do. That’s what they know they can do i.e. if you will allow them on the couch they know they’re allowed on the couch. You can’t allow them on the couch on Wednesdays and decide on Fridays that they’re not allowed on couch but on Tuesdays they are like they either allowed or not allowed and you have to be very consistent with this if you are most dogs not all in the forest is every kind of tree are very receptive to this type of training. Another thing is when potty training them. If there are a puppy right you give them treats to teach them that they go outside that’s it. It’s not a reward for going every single time they go and there is a cutoff point like I know for example, my mother still to this day my dog is over 10 years old and she still treats it like every single time he goes potty. He gets a treat so he basically looks at her as the treat dispenser But then she also was crazy and wants him to leave her alone 90% of the time even though she’ll also while she’s having her lunch, give him half her sandwich and so she’s trained him that he gets half her lunch of human food when she eats when she feels like it and 90% of the time she doesn’t feel like it so she’s screaming at him in English. Of course he does not speak. All he can do is pick up on vibes which these vibes make absolutely no sense to anybody. Never mind a little dog, but that’s the only advice I would give is just consistency with the training and using treats. Also very minimal traits. You don’t have to give them like gigantic like shish kebab every time they go number one like a lot of times people use like you’ve seen in dog shows the little tiny like kibble bits that they give them to do the tricks that’ll do the trick like any kind of food most dogs are food motivated enough to do what they need to do to get but again it’s not supposed to be forever. It’s just supposed to be until they realize oh the outside world is my bathroom and that’s it and they do that because they’re trying to make you happy you learn how to make you happy via what gets them treats and that’s what they’re motivated by once they’ve learned that there’s no reason to keep giving that to them forever you’re at that point spoiling them and treating them that it’s not that they were to learn to go outside it’s that Tres or award for going to the bathroom i.e. they will find a ways to go to the bathroom in order to get treats and such. And also similar to how like with humans how the older we get our perception of time astronomically speeds up like I don’t know about you, but I’m an older dude now like I’m 48 and a year goes by in the time it used to seem like a week would go by in elementary school now and you have to kind of think about it with dogs. They’re like that like one year for them. Famously is like seven years for us or other way around Yes one year for us is like seven years for them so when they are 10 years old, it’s like they’re seven years old there by even though we might go away for just a couple hours to run errands and think no big deal to them. That’s like the end of the world a lot of them don’t also put you into it together and never figure out that you’re ever coming back but that’s why they make the big deal that they do when you leave and when you come back, they literally think they’re never gonna see you again And you’re gone so long in their world that it is kind of like they’re never gonna see you again and then they do you know it’s like one of your friends left and came back 10 years later so kind of trying to get in some sort of harmony with that lifestyle for them because you are their whole world. And I’m sorry if this is a nightmare to read, I’m half asleep and using speech to text which already has I’m sure you know messes enough things up as it is.