How old should you start training Portuguese Water Dogs? When they are too young, they don’t understand what you are saying. When they are too old, they are too determined and too lazy to talk to you. So, when is the right age to train a dog?

The subjects of training are closely related to the age of the dog. For example, habitual training, defecation at fixed points, entering the nest, waiting for food, and refusing to eat are purely conditioned reflex training. They can be started in about 2 months and require a certain amount of training. Thinking ability training.

Depending on the complexity of the training content and your patience, the requirements for the age of the dog are also different. Generally, dogs begin to enter a period of rapid intellectual development at 4 months. It will be more efficient to conduct thinking training after 6 months or more. It can be trained when young, but more time and patience must be devoted to some high-intensity running and jumping. Category training is generally recommended to be only suitable for interest training in the early stage until 15 months old. Systematic training for large dogs cannot even be carried out until 18 months old. For example, dog competitions such as Frisbee and agility. Because these projects place a heavy burden on the dog's body, performing these trainings before the dog's skeleton is fully formed will only lead to abnormalities in the dog's bones. The most common one is hip joint dislocation.