I'm not sure if my Rosie has many braincells. She seems to just copy everything my beagle does, which is okay for the most part. Unless the beagle decides to get into something when I'm not looking lol. Rosie will occasionally look over at me and freak out and run to me all excited. I don't know if she has object permanence lol. She alsojust kinda accepts anything that's happening and goes along with it. She was crate trained in 3 days because she is just cool with whatever.