Welcome karala and austech - auspup is very cute
To answer Muddy's question Birdypup (show cocker) is 6 months old on Sunday.
On the plus side she can sit, lie, stand and has good control ie will sit outside and wait to be called and will wait for her food until we say eat. She walks ok about 75% of time with a loose lead and has some recall outside unless there is anything to distract her (leaf, other dog, people she knows, bird, fresh air !!). She will walk to heel off lead if there aer no distractions. She goes to bed in her crate really well at night without a whimper and has been left for up to 3 hours in her pen (about 3 x area of crate). Don't want to jinx it but I think she's fully toilet trained as I can't rememer the last time we had an accident.
But ..... she still mouths at times particularly in the mornings before and after her first walk - trying to dry her is a nightmare. She is jumpy but not with strangers thankfully, more with people she knows so we're doing a lot of 'paws on ground' training. And she doesn't like being in her pen when we are in the house (ie if she gets put in there so DS can play with something on the floor). She also steals socks, pants etc that are hanging about drying and then hides under the dining table where it takes 2 people to get her out. And when we are out walking she eats everything - leaves, twigs, bits of paper/plastic etc - we did try bringing something with us to keep in her mouth but she just dropped it at first sight of a leave!!
So on balance more good than bad though I'd say.