Puppet manipulation for dummies

I make videos on YouTube and recently commissioned someone to make a puppet for me. I need to know how to manipulate the puppet for poses that I will be using in my videos. I've been looking for a while now and I'll I see are tutorials on how to animate not how to pose and save as a vector. The puppet has several different parts to it and I need to know how to put them together in different ways. If anyone knows what I'm talking about please help!