Finding a Person to Train Your Swedish Vallhund

How to Find a Trainer For Your Swedish Vallhund: What to Look For

• 1) A good reputation, ask around and obtain recommendations from the doctor, other Swedish Vallhund 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 Swedish Vallhunds.
• 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 Swedish Vallhund’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Basic Swedish Vallhund Obedience Tips

Training needs to be a pleasant and rewarding experience for both you and the Swedish Vallhund. If you’re not in the right mindset for training, do not even start. Always commend your Swedish Vallhund for following your commands precisely! A prize is anything that your Swedish Vallhund desires and is happy to work for. Edible treats are the expected prize but other treats could be verbalized commendation and toys. Many brief training sessions are demonstrated to be better than a single long one. Training shouldn’t involve any negative comments or consequences. There should be no shouting, no smacking or hitting, no leash jerking on training chains or collars, and absolutely no electric fences! Each training opportunity should be pleasant and positive with rewards for a job well done.

Training Swedish Vallhunds with head collars

Yanking the leash is one of the few displeasing tasks of training a new Swedish Vallhund puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Swedish Vallhund training has become standard during the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some benefits over the usual training collar. While quite simple to use, it is important that head collars are fitted correctly and your Swedish Vallhund properly introduced to the collar. Head collars are generally more easy to use than a traditional training collar. Head collars are quite effective when controlling Swedish Vallhunds in tricky situations.

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