Finding a Trainer for a Bavarian Mountain Hound

How to Find a Trainer For Your Bavarian Mountain Hound: What to Look For

• 1) A pristine reputation, ask around and obtain recommendations from the animal doctor, other Bavarian Mountain Hound 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 Bavarian Mountain Hounds.
• 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 Bavarian Mountain Hound’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Basic Bavarian Mountain Hound Obedience Tips

Training must be a positive and rewarding situation for both you and the Bavarian Mountain Hound. If you’re not in the best mindset for training, do not even think of starting. Always treat your Bavarian Mountain Hound for listening to your commands exactly! A treat is anything that your Bavarian Mountain Hound desires and is happy to earn. Food is the expected reward but different treats could be verbalized admiration and playthings. Many brief sessions are demonstrated to be more effective than 1 long one. Training should not involve any degrading comments or consequences. There should be no shouting, no hitting or smacking, no chain jerking on training chains or collars, and absolutely no electric shocking! Each training opportunity should be enjoyed and confidence-building with treats for each job well done.

Training Bavarian Mountain Hounds with head collars

Pulling on the leash is one of the few negative jobs of training a new Bavarian Mountain Hound puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Bavarian Mountain Hound training has become standard over the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the traditional training collar. Although quite easy to utilize, it is imperative that head collars are fitted correctly and your Bavarian Mountain Hound gradually introduced to the collar. Head collars are usually more easy to use than a traditional training collar. Head collars are quite effective when guiding Bavarian Mountain Hounds in difficult situations.

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