Finding a Person to Train a Finnish Spitz

How to Find a Trainer For Your Finnish Spitz: 6 Things to Look For

• 1) A respected reputation, ask around and get recommendations from the animal doctor, other Finnish Spitz 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 Finnish Spitzs.
• 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 Finnish Spitz’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Basic Finnish Spitz Obedience Tips

Training needs to be a pleasant and rewarding experience for both you and your Finnish Spitz. If you are not in the best mindset for training, do not even begin. Always treat your Finnish Spitz for following your commands to the letter! A prize is anything that your Finnish Spitz wants and is willing to work for. Food is the usual reward but other rewards could be oral admiration and playthings. Multiple shorter sessions are demonstrated to be better than one long one. Training shouldn’t involve any negative comments or consequences. 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 opportunity should be pleasant and positive with treats for each job well done.

Training Finnish Spitzs with head collars

Pulling on the leash is one of the few negative experiences of training a new Finnish Spitz puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Finnish Spitz training has become standard throughout the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the regular training collar. Even though it is very simple to use, it is important that head collars are fitted correctly and your Finnish Spitz systematically introduced to the collar. Head collars are pretty much more intuitive to use than an usual training collar. Head collars are very powerful when training Finnish Spitzs in difficult situations.

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