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Originally Posted by kjcmsw

Yeah, they seem to be pretty darn smart, though one only "sits" about 1/2 of the time, the other two clearly know "sit" --- they all love "fetch" but hubby plays fetch every morning with the two adults, and lets the puppies out to play, so they just picked that up I guess, but they fetch consistently individually too. I guess consistency is the key, though I was working on "shake" but they just give me that look like, "yeah right...you shake." (so they aren't that dang smart...or smart enough to think "stupid human tricks"). They all know their names very clearly too, hopefully when they sell they'll learn another name quickly. One will also "stay" (for several minutes, not so the other two)
Again, two are nearly 100% on the potty pad - will stop playing and go over to the potty pad and do their business before resuming play, and one makes it about 90% of the time (so yeah, I guess pretty good for their ages 11 1/2 weeks). I try to spend a lot of time with them, take them to work (whenever possible), etc, so maybe that's it, I guess I just thought that's when they learn, their mama is pretty smart, so I'm sure that contributes. Who knows.
Kendra

I did have a little female in the last litter that was fussing at the vets during a vaccine visit at 12 weeks. I told them I thought she had to potty. They said let her go on the floor, but she would not. I put a tissue down for her and she immediately went to it and peed. The vet & tech were impressed. So, they can get used to the pads or something similar very young. Mine were showing "preference" for pads but I couldn't say they were actually pad trained. And now here I am with Annie (I bought her she is not "home grown") still not trained at 5 1/2 months. I will keep working on her though. She is too sweet to not stay consistent with.