I just got a Smooth Coated Collie puppy. He's 11 weeks old
and is just a doll. He's pretty active so he's keeping me hopping,
but he's learning things really fast. He seems to pick up the
meaning of words faster than my Cairns did, but he's not
as quick on problem solving. I gave him one of those balls
that spits out treats, when the dog moves it. He didn't get it,
so I finally had to show him several times fore the lightbulb came
on. With my Cairns, I just tossed it out there and it didn't take any
instruction from me for them to figure it out.

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