Is Your Breed Easy To Train?

 Kaiser (GSD)- very easy to train! He's been a dream...and he was 98% housebroken in like 3 weeks of getting him,

Wyatt (rhodesian ridgeback)- i think he's smart, but he's stubborn! Not so easy to train. He was like 4 months old before he was house trained!!! 

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Not so easy to train. He was like 4 months old before he was house trained!!! 

Is that a long time? lol  My Zoe took over a year to housetrain, and Zack is 10 months old and we are still working on his pooping in the house habit.

Kujo is a blast to teach new stuff to. She is very food motivated. But talk about taking a year to house train. Ahhhh. Every time I bragged about her finally getting it she would make a liar out of me. Now though she is finally house trained!!! Just took a year. 

I think papillons are pretty easy to train.  They are sensitive to their handlers and often have a desire to please and learn new ways to get their owners to give them more tasty treats or toss their favorite toy.  Most I have met are highly intelligent and have the potential to pick up commands fast, especially if you keep the training upbeat and positive.  Like Laurelin stated, they are sensitive little guys and if they feel your starting to get frustrated or displeased with them they tend to shut down when it comes to learning.

I've found Kirby to be very easy to train, although I have to admit he is a few cards short of a full deck.  Picks up commands great, but he lacks common sense.  

 Ben the lab...yes.  He's motivated by food or toys, likes praise/fuss, will do what I ask if it means being able to trot around with his usual happy-go-lucky attitude.  Really, he just wants to be loved, given cold sausages and to have tennis balls thrown for him, training around that with a dog who is motivated by most anything is pretty easy.  He knows all his basics (sit, down, go to bed etc), commands necessary for agility and a bucketload of tricks. 

The next puppy....erm...no.  They're not renowned for being easy to train, as a breed they have no reason whatever to obey a human command "just because".  Training them involves making them understand that the commands you give are logical, fair and not without purpose.  That's after you've earned enough respect to command them at all.  

 A beagle?! No, no way... However, determination and lots and lots of patience are very helpful.

So far, he required many tedious hours of obedience training, and I think there are many hours more to come...      

My corgi lives to please me. She was taught basic obedience in 6 weeks and she only pottied in the house one time at 12 weeks. 

 Honor is ridiculously easy to train, but much harder to proof.  She shapes like a breeze, and usually picks up on new tricks/commands within a few repetitions.  However, she is very much of her own mind, and may not complete a command if she feels that a more fun one of her choosing is worth the treat.   Sometimes, I get the impression that she's thinking "Sit? Sit is boring! You want me to roll over, that's what you really want!".  But she's getting there, the mere fact that she was one of the best dogs in her rally class tells me that she CAN do it.

Nike is a little slower to train than Honor, but once he learns something, he'll execute it with such precision and consistency.  For instance, yesterday we were working on automatic sits, and after only three times of telling him to sit when we stop, he now does it every time without a word from me.  I cannot wait to get him into rally, I bet he'll love it.

 In the general scheme of things, Aussies are easy to train, but some are not so easy to manage due to their peculiar way of thinking and their energy level.  Hounds - piece of cake if you know how to motivate them.  Many people think they're stupid, but they're just independent.  They can learn everything that the "smart" dogs learn.  Yorkies - very smart and wicked cute.

  The Belgians are extremely easy to train BUT  they are also extremely quirky which can lead to some training issues. They tend to obsess over what they *think* you want them to do, sometimes to the point that you can't get them to do anything else. They get into strange behavior patterns sometimes and tend to obsess. They are quicker with their thoughts/actions than most GSDs but my German line GSD has been by far the very easiest dog I have ever worked with. She has a level of work ethic that you don't see in the average dog, REALLY wants to do what you want her to do and is usually more level headed than those crazy black dogs (although she can have her moments).

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 A beagle?! No, no way... However, determination and lots and lots of patience are very helpful.

So far, he required many tedious hours of obedience training, and I think there are many hours more to come...      

I had a Beagle that learned a whole routine of tricks, and she had all the basic skills.  I'll admit it took me longer to train her than some of my other dogs, but she was pretty smart.  I have a hound now, and he was easy - likes clicker training because he's so food motivated. 

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I had a Beagle that learned a whole routine of tricks, and she had all the basic skills.  I'll admit it took me longer to train her than some of my other dogs, but she was pretty smart. 

Yes, my dog is really really smart, but he just doesn't want to... He is so stubborn, has a mind of his own, and very often my plans are not his plans and he shows that very clearly...

But I have to admit, clicker training does wonders with him. 

My Aussie mix has been the easiest by far to train. I adopted her when she was 8 weeks old and she was fully potty trained within a week. Not a single accident. In puppy school she took to commands immediately. In Obedience class she was perfect. I was going to start her in agility this summer, but she wound up having luxating patellas in both knees and is still recovering from her double knee surgery. She's really the sweetest, smartest dog I have ever owned. She LOVES to please. 

My BC/Pit mix is a bit of a brat. Smart smart smart...too smart for his own good I think.. he picks up new commands very quickly, but only follows them when it suits him. Perfect example...we were working on getting him to wait at the door for me to let him outside because he has a bad habit of shoving right past me. For weeks we worked on it, and I thought he was doing really well. He knows when I say "wait" he has to sit and wait for me to give him the command to follow me outside. Well, he obeyed this spot on for a few weeks... but he LIKES to shove past me..and this is how smart he is...now, he stays in another room, pretending not to notice that I am about to go outside, and I let my guard down because I don't think he is even nearby, and as soon as I turn that doorknob...ZOOOOM...shoves right past me before I can get a chance to command him to wait..as if we hadn't just spent the past month working on this. It's really frustrating with him sometimes.

Sasha, the wonder mix, is very easy to train. She enjoys learning new things, and trying to figure out what you're asking. She also picks up rules very quickly. She had her CGC by 9 months. At 6 months, she new that nothing in the house was hers to chew unless it was presented to her, and she could generalize this to other people's homes.

Then we have Eko ...

Smart? Oh yes. Does he care what you think? Almost never. Training-wise, he is a PITA and then some. He will also complain, loudly and at length, when prevented from carrying out one of his Very Good Ideas that we dense humans can't appreciate.

The bright side is that he has a fantastically stable personality. Sasha needs more social guidance than he does, because she's anxious. He's rock solid, emotionally. If he weren't, I don't think I live with this level of "You and what army carrying dog biscuits?"

He's also quite the engineer, and good at opening various things. Doors, lids, drawers, etc. Thank god he hasn't figured out the fridge! 

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.and this is how smart he is...now, he stays in another room, pretending not to notice that I am about to go outside, and I let my guard down because I don't think he is even nearby, and as soon as I turn that doorknob...ZOOOOM...shoves right past me before I can get a chance to command him to wait..as if we hadn't just spent the past month working on this. It's really frustrating with him sometimes.

Oh dear! So the smarts of a BC with the bulll headedness of a pit? Ooh thats a tough combo, LOL....I love a dog like that. Too smart for their own good, LOL!