[loveisokay]

I am a little bit shocked this week, I brought home my eight week old puppy little over a week ago & she knows three tricks & is paper trained already with no treat based training.How long did your dog or puppy take to pick up on simple commands?I should point out that she is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel & my mum had one a few years ago who was really quite slow to pick up on anything - he never ignored commands when he did know them, it was just a slow process to get to that stage. We all assumed that the breed was a little bit dim until I brought this little girl home.

[jacob carson]

it took about 3 moths i have very good experience with animals..when i was 14 i went to a store and i brought my eagle case. i layed it on my arm and i called out out of nowhere the eagele landed on the case. i had no experinse b4 this time with eagles.

[Bob M]

If you do trai then when young and rewards of treats and petting. plus tell em you like em they pick up on that very fast. mine took two days. he died a few years ago and its like loosing a child.

[Sierra12]

Our dog new sit and was learning stay at 8 weeks. They say dogs are mentally capable of learning 'pack' rules as soon as they're weaned from their mothers. We learned a great deal from Ceasar Millan, he's great with dogs and why they do what they do!

[Pythoness]

This depends a lot on the breed of dog involved, and the invidual dog. My Shiba Inu picks up on things a lot faster than my Labrador (who has his CD, CDX titles) ever did - but performing them on command is another matter. The Lab is obedient to every command he knows, every time. The Shiba is not. But Shibas are an indepedent breed and, as a rule, do not like repetition. They won't "sit" on command every time, just because you ask them to. The Labrador will. Who is the smarter dog? I honestly think the Shiba is, he learns things much faster than my Lab did, even though the Labrador, most people would think, is the more "well trained" dog, becuase he obeys every command every time. But it's just the differences in the breed, and obedience is not always a measure of intelligence.