With so many people advertising in the field of professional dog training right now, deciding who’s really qualified to look after your Chihuahua can be tiresome. What to consider for when choosing a professional to help you with training your Chihuahua:
How to Find a Trainer For Your Chihuahua: Six Things to Look For
- 1) A respected reputation, inquire and get recommendations from your doctor, other Chihuahua 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 Chihuahuas.
- 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 Chihuahua’s well being.
- 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.
Basic Chihuahua Obedience Tips
Training must be a positive and enjoyable situation for both you and your Chihuahua. If you’re not in the right mindset for training, do not even start. Always treat the Chihuahua for heeding your commands expediently! A reward is anything that your Chihuahua desires and is happy to earn. Food is the typical reward but other prizes could be oral admiration and toys. Many brief sessions are much more effective than a single long one. Training must not involve any degrading components or punishment. There should be no shouting, no smacking or hitting, no chain yanking on training chains or collars, and absolutely no electric shocking! Every single training opportunity must be pleasant and confidence-building with prizes for a job well done.
Training Chihuahuas with head collars
Pulling on the lead is one of the few unpleasant experiences of bringing up a new Chihuahua puppy. Using a head collar for Chihuahua training has become standard over the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some benefits over the usual training collar. While quite simple to utilize, it’s important that head collars are fitted correctly and your Chihuahua properly introduced to the collar. Head collars are usually more easy to use than a traditional training collar. Head collars are very powerful when controlling Chihuahuas in tricky situations.
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