Finding the Right Trainer for a Portuguese Water Dog

How to Find a Trainer For Your Portuguese Water Dog: Six Things to Look For

• 1) A pristine reputation, inquire and get insight from your vet, other Portuguese Water Dog 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 Water Dogs.
• 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 Water Dog’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Basic Portuguese Water Dog Obedience Tips

Training must be a pleasant and enjoyable experience for both you and your Portuguese Water Dog. If you are not in the right mindset for training, do not even think of beginning. Always treat your Portuguese Water Dog for heeding your orders to the letter! A treat is anything that your Portuguese Water Dog wants and is happy to earn. Snacks are the expected reward but different rewards could be verbal praise and toys. Several shorter training sessions are usually more effective than 1 long one. Training shouldn’t contain any negative components or punishment. There should be no yelling, no smacking or hitting, no leash jerking on choke chains or collars, and absolutely no electric fences! Every training session needs to be enjoyed and confidence-building with praise for each job well done.

Training Portuguese Water Dogs with head collars

Dragging the leash is one of the few displeasing jobs of bringing up a new Portuguese Water Dog puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Portuguese Water Dog training has become standard during the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some unique advantages over the regular training collar. While quite easy to utilize, it’s important that head collars are fit properly and your Portuguese Water Dog gradually introduced to the collar. Head collars are generally more intuitive to use than a standard training collar. Head collars are very powerful when training Portuguese Water Dogs in difficult situations.

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