[RKDinOKC]

Good Boy! Hank is a big tough name for such a cute puppy.

Sounds like he's already your dog. Specially since you will be home all day with him.

Getting another puppy without waiting was a really good thing for Mom.

Just remember, they can speak very close to english. They just can't use their lips. My Mom's speech therapist said it was most like Astro on the Jetsons.
They will try to imitate you. You just have to listen and reward for it.

Camber started by barking because she didn't want to rollover. She started saying "Roll over" instead of doing it. So I used that to help train her to talk and used "Can you roll over" for her to actually roll over.

Got Pepper started speaking to get treats. Then started saying "Speak Hello." At first I rewarded anything that wasn't just a bark. Then strarted rewarding the closer it was to "Hello." She got pretty good at it. She gets so excited around new people it's difficult to get her to do anything. Still working on that.

My nephew is now even saying his pit bull is asking for things in english, before I got them listening they just discounted it as whining and barking.
And he used to say my dogs were just giving conditioned responses and wasn't really learning what she was asking for.