Lola is very smart, but she only does what she wants to do. She's also very determined to get whatever she wants. She's easy and hard to train at the same time because of her strong will, it would also help if I were a better trainer.
She figured out how to get on the couch as a tiny 12 week old puppy within 2 days of getting her. She dug her nails into the blanket and pulled herself up.
One day she wanted to get into my mom's room, there's a hamper and a tote turned on it's side blocking the way. She got her foot in the hamper's hand hole and pulled herself up on top of the tote and jumped down to my mom's side. She was about 3lbs at the time.
My family had a crazy smart yorkie before I was born, he was bought at a mall pet store in the 70's. He was their second dog and never trained, he just did stuff.
-The day they brought him home he kept going to the door and acting like he wanted out, so they put him out and he went to the bathroom. That was it, he never had an accident except he'd poop in the middle of strange living rooms.
-There was an emergency outside one day and my aunt, not thinking, told him to watch the baby (my cousin), and he did, he wouldn't move until she told him it was ok.
-He'd sneak sticks in the house by holding them in the corner of his mouth so the length went down his body.
-Never wore a leash, he knew to wait at corners to be picked up to cross the street.
I also agree, poodles are very smart, excellent dogs. My 2 had no training and they were perfect dogs, their only problem was a lack of socialization. We had 2 other dogs when we got them and it's not easy to take 4 dogs out.
They were very mouthy when people were over and protective of us, they were also horrible with riding in the car and getting groomed.
I corrected the mistakes we made with them with Lola. |