Pomeranian training
Despite its diminutive stature, the Pomeranian can be one of the more challenging breeds for dog behavior training. With high energy levels and natural friendly yet attention-seeking characteristics, they require more than normal amounts of patience and persistence than many other dog breeds.
Kongs, the heavy duty rubber toy with a hole in the center in which you can hide things such as small treats or smaller safe toys, seem to work particularly well with many Pomeranians.
Regular short walks are the best way to keep your Pomeranian in both good health and demeanour. This will help offset their natural requirement for being kept occupied, but they do like doing tricks as well as enjoying ball games.This affinity for tricks plus their cute appearance, are the reasons why this breed more often stars than others at shows of both the public and “stage” variety.
They tend to jump a lot if not controlled, but the issue most owners have is their barking so the training methods shown elsewhere on this page for training dogs out of jumping and barking habits should be utilised as early as possible in the Pomeranian’s life, and with a good deal of patience and persistency from early on these will normally suffice.
Its worth noting that they don’t usually get on too well with cats, and they don’t know they are small so they will actually try to dominate other dogs as well, so the alpha techniques shown below will also be useful from an early stage. With this breed more than others, it’s a very good idea to get her trained to standard verbal commands and the relevant accompanying gestures, again from as early as possible.
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Also be careful when leash training as although they have strong necks relative to their small size, tugging to correct poor behavior should not be overly sharp or prolonged. Nevertheless, another great dog to enjoy!
