How to Train your PORTUGUESE WATER DOG

Training Your Portuguese Water Dog

The Portuguese Water Dog is highly athletic, incredibly smart, and famously eager to work. They are highly trainable and excel in obedience.

Key Training Tips:

• Vigorous Activity: They possess boundless energy. Training must be paired with intense physical exercise, preferably swimming or retrieving.
• Mental Agility: They bore easily. Keep training sessions fast-paced and challenging, incorporating advanced tricks and agility work.
• Mouthy Behavior: As retrievers, they love to carry things in their mouths and may nip when excited. Provide chew toys and teach bite inhibition early.

They are highly affectionate, comical dogs that demand to be fully integrated into all active family adventures.