Well, if you want to train a dog beyond just the basics, herding dogs are some of the best; the aptitude has been bred into them as their original function. Learning how to train Coba is an ongoing process, and it's pretty exciting. My wolfdogs were/are (in Jez' case) very well trained too, for wolfdogs, and they were a lovely amateur sled team when they were young, but that was a very different kind of training.