Dobies are highly intelligent and learn fast but boy they are stubborn.[/quote]
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Yes, they ARE stubborn, but respond, like kids, to the pack leader.
With our revolving pack, I let them know right away that I was the master,
or else we would have had a bunch of huge, powerful juvenile delinquents.
Then when they knew what was and not allowed, they were charming friends
and guards for the rest of their lives.
Still miss them, especially our dear Kurt, saved from a research lab when
he was about 10 months old. The group that got him back (I've always
wondered if it had been a night time rescue) gave him to us after checking
how we lived and our back yard, etc.