Measure up??????
Your post made me think a lot about behaviour, not the dogs, but ours! Poor Ozzy, our baby Bouvier, he has quite the boots to fill. Andy and I didn't realize that we expected him to do stuff that Vodka did, just because. She came to us fully trained and she was at an age where she was a wise old lady.
As we all live together on the truck, the good and bad seem to amplify as the weeks go by. By the end of the third week, we are all ready to stop living in each other's pockets and when we get home we find that the dogs have learned a lot of new stuff (especially Ozzy ) and put it to use at home.
Merlin's (10 lb shih tzu-toy poodle) found that if he winds Ozzy up to do the puppy frenzy, Ozzy goes into his crate to calm down and Merlin gets all the toys for a while. The humans took a little while to figure this out and it has been addressed. Not bad for a little guy that we thought was more than a bit slow. (Retarded Mental Growth is what Andy mutters some days) I find that the littles get away with more because of their size and "cuteness", with them when stuff goes south, we pick them up and deal with what ever, but Ozzy doesn't fit under our arms any more (95 lbs now and still growing), and his size can be impressive to some people, so he has to do all the basic commands immediately. He does sit, lay down, very well, but come is to be worked on.