My puppy is now8 months old and just perfect.........but we do have one small problem with him.
Going out for a walk. When he sees his lead he goes balistic! in a happy way! he starts running round the room like a complete lunatic and jumping in the air, it takes forver to get the lead on, the whole time he is whinning excitedly.

Everytime this happens he does a runny poo on his walk! which usually means he needs cleaning up when he comes home.

My husband walks him as I am disabled and can't do so. My husband is away for 2 or 3 days a week on on these days I exercise him by throwing his various toys around the garden and playing 'fetch' with him On these days he goes to the toilet in the garden and is always firm so we think it's the 'excitement' that's causing him to get the squits.

Do you think he will grow out of this? we've had dogs before and although they all get excited to go for a walk this little guy just goes over the top!

We have tried telling him to sit to try and get his lead on and he does for a split second but then just has to start running, jumping and getting over excited again.

Make the lead of less value to him. Carry it around with you, have it within sight, let him see it a lot WITHOUT it being put on. I.e. eventually he won't know when he's going to go for a walk, or not. Worth a try. :) He'll be excited the first few times, but will soon realise the lead appearing no longer means a walk every time.

It is in sight, it's always on the top of his crate, he stands up and looks at it at times but doesn't get excited over that.

Then pick it up and handle it regularly. :) I did something similar with my dogs. My mother in law lives in a granny flat with us, and she has a Labrador. When the Lab first arrived my dogs used to go mad barking as soon as they heard her shake her head -they heard it because she has a tag on her collar and they heard that, knew it meant the "intruder" dog was somewhere, and barked. So I took a collar with a tag on and kept it in our part of the house and regularly picked it up and shook it in front of the dogs, so they learnt the sound didn't always mean the Labrador was about. It worked. :)

Thanks, I will try that!

He can't help it, he's a baby and he's excited ;) he needs to learn that to go out he must have his lead on and sit nicely for it :-)  

this is how I dealt with it with all of mine.

Teach pup to sit on command.  Never say it loudly, just a very quiet sit and he gets a treat, then start making him wait for the treat while sitting :)

Once he has learned this reliably, you are ready to move onto stage 2.

Get the lead out and stand quietly, let him go mad, run around, do what he likes.  Don't make any noise and don't move about, pick a spot and stay there, let him come to you - this could take some time at first as he's a very excited baby boy ;)

If you wait patiently, your pup will eventually realise that he isn't getting anywhere and will come to you.  Tell him to sit and put his lead on, if you can't because he's just jumped up and started being excited again just wait patiently.  He will soon learn that to actually go out he will need to sit to have his lead put on.  If he can't or won't, go out for a short walk (just around the outside of the house will do ;) ) without him and come back in and leave it for half an hour.

I never chase after mine to put a lead on, if they don't sit nicely, they get left behind ;)  they only get left behind the once ;) then they decide for themselves that they'd rather calm down :-D