Finding a Person to Train a Dutch Shepherd Dog

How to Find a Trainer For Your Dutch Shepherd Dog: What to Look For

• 1) A stellar reputation, inquire and obtain advice from the doctor, other Dutch Shepherd Dog owners, or local kennel clubs.
• 2) Experience. – Inquire about their background, i.e. number of years experience.
• 3) A genuine love of and devotion to Dutch Shepherd Dogs.
• 4) Extensive and up to date knowledge. Dedicated trainers keep themselves updated by attending dog training and animal behavior courses, conferences, seminars and workshops.
• 5) Their training methodology and handling skills. A good trainers first concern should be the Dutch Shepherd Dog’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

General Dutch Shepherd Dog Obedience Tips

Training should be a positive and rewarding experience for both you and the Dutch Shepherd Dog. If you’re not in the best mood for training, don’t even start. Always reward your Dutch Shepherd Dog for listening to your commands to the tee! A treat is anything that your Dutch Shepherd Dog desires and is happy to work for. Food is an obvious reward but other prizes could be oral praise and toys. Multiple brief sessions are usually more effective than one long one. Training mustn’t contain any negative components or punishment. There should be no yelling, no smacking or hitting, no leash yanking on training leashes or collars, and absolutely no electric shocking! Every single training session needs to be pleasant and confidence-building with praise for jobs well done.

Training Dutch Shepherd Dogs with head collars

Pulling on the lead is one of the few displeasing tasks of training a new Dutch Shepherd Dog puppy. Using a head collar for Dutch Shepherd Dog training has become very popular over the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the traditional training collar. While very easy to use, it is important that head collars are fit correctly and your Dutch Shepherd Dog properly introduced to the collar. Head collars are pretty much more easy to use than a typical training collar. Head collars are quite powerful when guiding Dutch Shepherd Dogs in difficult situations.

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