Finding a Trainer for a Portuguese Podengo

How to Find a Trainer For Your Portuguese Podengo: 6 Things to Look For

• 1) A respected reputation, inquire and obtain insight from the veterinarian, other Portuguese Podengo owners, or local kennel clubs.
• 2) Experience. – Inquire about their background, i.e. number of years experience.
• 3) A genuine love of and devotion to Portuguese Podengos.
• 4) Extensive and up to date knowledge. Dedicated trainers keep themselves updated by attending dog training and animal behavior courses, conferences, seminars and workshops.
• 5) Their training methodology and handling skills. A good trainers first concern should be the Portuguese Podengo’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Standard Portuguese Podengo Obedience Tips

Training needs to be a pleasant and enjoyable experience for both you and your Portuguese Podengo. If you are not in the best mood for training, don’t even think of beginning. Always treat the Portuguese Podengo for listening to your orders to the letter! A treat is anything that your Portuguese Podengo desires and is happy to work for. Edible treats are an obvious prize but different rewards could be verbalized admiration and playthings. Multiple shorter sessions are usually more effective than a long one. Training must not contain any degrading components or consequences. There should be no yelling, no hitting or smacking, no leash jerking on training chains or collars, and absolutely no electric shocking! Every single training session must be enjoyed and reinforcing with treats for jobs well done.

Training Portuguese Podengos with head collars

Pulling on the leash is one of the few unpleasant experiences of training a new Portuguese Podengo puppy. Using a head collar for Portuguese Podengo training has become standard in the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the standard training collar. Although very simple to utilize, it’s vital that head collars are fitted properly and your Portuguese Podengo properly introduced to the collar. Head collars are usually more intuitive to use than an usual training collar. Head collars are quite powerful when guiding Portuguese Podengos in difficult situations.

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