It's like someone's just flipped a switch in him. He waits at doors, he comes when he's asked, he all of a sudden understands DSs name and can find him when asked to, same with DH, he knows sit, down, he's stopped begging at the table, if he's got something that he shouldn't have and you say drop he holds it gently and let's you remove it from his mouth instead of running around with it like a loon, he's leaving the cats alone, he's not barking as much outside.
It's freaking me out! I've been exasperated by him for months and months and I've actually thought he wasn't very bright as nothing we were trying to teach him was singing in.
Still lots to work on-loose lead walking, horrible recall (he's been on his lead for a couple of months now as we went back to basics with recall and nothing was working. My nerves couldn't handle it anymore!) and some reactivity when we're out to young male dog, motorbikes and buses.
Not sure of the point of this post really but if you're struggling with an adolescent dog than don't give up hope!