docile
DOS-uladjMeaning calm and easy to teach, lead or control
Memory hook DOS-ul: it DOES ALL you ask. Ask the pony to walk, stop or turn, and it does all you ask: it is docile.
The docile old horse let every child at the fair take a turn on its back.
In context The trainer warned that the puppy would not stay docile forever; once it was bigger, it would pull hard on the leash unless it learned to heel now.
Similar obedient, gentle, tame, manageable
Opposite unruly, willful, recalcitrant
From Latin docilis, “easily taught,” from docere (to teach).