My cousin just bought a lil puppy and she finds it hard too. Because they have the problem the she want that the dog do something in the way she wants it and the dog has to learn but her husband finds everything just cute...so they have to be strictly... both... otherwise the lil puppy won't learn the things he has to learn right, f. e. not to bark all the time or when the owners aren't at home. To have a little dog means to educate him like a child.