When Odin was 3 months old, he learned to sit, down, give paw/give other paw in 15 minutes including memorizing the hand signals for each, as well.
Don’t even need to give verbal commands.
The hand signals then morphed into such sutble, nearly invisible motions that it freaks people out because they think he’s reading my mind.
:)
My guy, now gone, when he started losing his hearing, learned without much prompting subtle hand signals.
I had a dog I taught the old “poison” gag. You show them a dog biscuit and say POISON!. The dog looks it but won’t touch it. Took about 10 miniatures to teach that.
Then the DOG add a neat twist to the joke. No matter what I said or did he wouldn’t eat the biscuit until I nibbled a piece of it. Then he’d gobble it up. Like he didn’t trust me.
Cut it out, Sal! You know he’s reading your mind. ;-)