There are always ways and means to helping a puppy mature, as there are to raising a child. But most of us are one in saying that children, unlike dogs, are governed by universal and unchanging rules. But here are three things that still make people ooh and ahh when it comes to taking care of their, say, portuguese water dogs, or weimaraners. Indeed how many times are we still going to hear those "My dog doesn't mind me at all", or "He's changed irreversibly!"?

1. Dogs can't get through to our English, until we show them how.

Noticed how a dog or a puppy seem to regard us the way a kid would look at a magician? Dogs act this way