When you are trying to find a new pet dog you naturally want to find a pooch that will be a good companion, but you surely will want one that can be trained and taught cool tricks. When you are working on training a dog whether it's a Chinook or a Keeshond or a Greyhound or a Old English Bulldog that can be obedience trained quite easily, it will make your job much more simple when you are paper training it and teaching it simple house manners. While a dog that has more resistance to training can pose some problems in training, they can be trained by an expert dog trainer. But, if you are just getting started with dog training, you would do better to find one that is quick to learn. When scouring local dog breeders for this type of dog, there are some things that you will want to look for in character, breed and age.

Personality

Most people will tell you that a calmer dog is a whale of a lot easier to train. But, although it is probably a bit simpler to hold this type of dog's attention, an exuberant, hyper dog can also be easy to train if you have some patience. The key is to find and buy a dog that bonds with you. When you bond with a dog and that dog will follow you anywhere because it is so devoted to you, it will easily do anything that you ask. A dog that loves its owner is actually quite easy to train, regardless of whether it is hyper or peaceful, dominant or submissive.

A submissive dog will usually present fewer challenges in training than a dominant one will. To check if your dog is submissive, look him or her in the eyes. If the dog looks away before you do, that indicates submission. With miniature dogs and puppies, it over so that its belly is bared to you. A submissive dog will just stay there. A dominant dog will oppose you, trying to turn over.

Breed

Your choice of breeds is huge - Rottweiler, Poodle, Saint Bernard and Cocker Spaniel to name a few.

Some breeds are well known for their trainability. Labs and Goldens are popular because they are so easy to train. However, the bully breeds are very intelligent and extremely devoted to their owners. This includes American bulldogs, pit bulls and English bulldogs. Corgis, Australian shepherds, German shepherds and Dobermans are dogs that are usually quite easy to train. Terriers and notorious for being "hard headed," but they can be taught and they pick up new skills quickly, especially if make it enjoyable to them such as offering them a treat. Mixed breed dogs can often make excellent pets that are easy to train.

Age

The old truism is that you can't teach an old dog a new trick and most folks believe that adult dogs can't be trained, but that is simply not true. Lots of adult dogs learn even faster than puppies. Adult dogs usually have a better attention span than puppies and they are more stable. Adult dogs can make great pets and can prove to be very easy to train which is a good case to support rescues.

When you look for a dog, look for one that responds to you. If you find that special dog that you can bond with, it will make training a breeze. I hope that this information is helpful to all that are looking for their new pooch.