Finding a Person to Train Your Cumberland Sheepdog

How to Find a Trainer For Your Cumberland Sheepdog: What to Look For

• 1) A respected reputation, inquire and obtain recommendations from the vet, other Cumberland Sheepdog 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 Cumberland Sheepdogs.
• 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 Cumberland Sheepdog’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Standard Cumberland Sheepdog Obedience Tips

Training must be a positive and enjoyable experience for both you and the Cumberland Sheepdog. If you are not in the right mood for training, don’t even think of starting. Always treat your Cumberland Sheepdog for obeying your orders expediently! A prize is anything that your Cumberland Sheepdog desires and is willing to earn. Food is a great prize but different rewards could be verbal praise and playthings. Several shorter training sessions are usually better than 1 long one. Training must not contain any negative comments or consequences. There should be no shouting, no hitting or smacking, no leash jerking on training leashes or collars, and absolutely no electric shocking! Every single training opportunity must be pleasant and reinforcing with praise for jobs well done.

Training Cumberland Sheepdogs with head collars

Dragging the leash is one of the few displeasing tasks of training a new Cumberland Sheepdog puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Cumberland Sheepdog training has become standard over the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some unique advantages over the traditional training collar. Even though it is quite easy to utilize, it is crucial that head collars are fit correctly and your Cumberland Sheepdog properly introduced to the collar. Head collars are typically more intuitive to use than an usual training collar. Head collars are quite effective when controlling Cumberland Sheepdogs in tricky situations.

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