Higher expectations for #2 Dood

[Carla, Lucca and Izzy]

Lucca is 2 1/2 years old and Izzy is 7 1/2 months. Lucca is calm. Izzy is a crazy rambunctious puppy. I find us (including myself) telling Izzy to calm down, etc very frequently. I have started reminding my family members that she is JUST a puppy and we have to remember this. Lucca is so calm I think we expect Izzy to be calm too:) But that's just not going to happen at this point!!

Do any of you out there get stuck in this scenario? Where you kind of forget the puppy is just a puppy and you can't expect more than that?

No problems here...just curious.

 

[Suzann, Rosey & Bandit]

Hmmm. not an issue here because we got 2 puppies 5 months apart!!  Bandit is younger but more calm, but sometimes I do forget that Rosey is still a puppy, I guess because she is bigger and a tad bit wiser...

[Bonnie and Kona]

Carla, We have the exact same situation here. Kona was the calmest puppy we ever had. We were convinced it was his breeding and decided we had to get a pup from the same breeder. Now we know that just likekids every dog has a unique personality and breeding only goes so far. At four months Owen was overwhelming all of us. He is never going to be "like Kona" but he has won our hearts with his personality plus! 

[Joyce,David"Mochi,Latte,Popcorn"]

I'm with you Carla. Thought our story is a bit different. Latte probably doesn't have as much energy as Izzy.

But I also had higher expectations for Latte. Mochi learned to use door bell in ONE day at about the same age. Since then he has never peed/poop indoors, and I remember that was when he was about 3 months old.

Well. I got a poochie bell for Latte. Thought this is much easier to learn than the one Mochi uses ( a teller bell that Mochi uses his paws to tap on it).

I've been teaching Latte to use the poochie bell since the day she came. it's been a month and she still doesn't know that she should use it to tell us she wants to go out! I had to point at the bell so she'd use it.

If I don't give her any hints to tell her to use the bell, she'd just sit by the door and wait, then she'd fall asleep and give up. (Good thing I think she already knows not to pee/poop indoors, she hasn't done that for over 2 weeks).

 

What I'm saying is, that I now realized how smart Mochi is and how ...not smart Latte is :(

Mochi learned to use bell in 1 day vs Latte still doesn't know how to use it after 1 month.

Mochi learned to shake hands within a few minutes while it took Latte almost an hour to learn one easy trick.

 

Well. That's the only thing I had higher expectations for Latte. Other than that she's a very sweet girl and less stubborn than Mochi.