It is not absurd but you can't alternation an old dog like you alternation a puppy. You accept to be a little bit stricter on an earlier dog because they accept a lot added intelligence than a puppy and apperceive how to drive you annular the bend. An earlier dog will added acceptable do article if he thinks its his abstraction rather than yours, for archetype if he goes to sit , say sit and again acclaim him, he will anticipate it was his abstraction and if you accumulate on repeating this action eventually or after you will accept him sitting on command. This action will assignment for abounding of the commands, like fetch, come, break and heel.
In adage that you may acquisition that your earlier dog is decidedly accessible to train, some dogs accept a band of antipathy which agency they do not alternation as calmly as others but some are a lot added affected to training methods. Training an earlier dog will of advance be difficult but bad habits charge to be burst and continued appellation habits charge to be stopped. Your dog will acknowledge you for it in the end and the end aftereffect will be able-bodied account the trouble.
Training an earlier dog can be a backbreaking assignment but try authoritative it fun by abutting a chic (they are not aloof for bodies with puppies) or try to get some abutment from ancestors or friends, advance in some training articles like toys and treats, or alike go as far as a training school, but one affair is for abiding already you've accomplished your dog what he needs to apperceive the band amid you will abound and you will become inseparable.