Finding a Trainer for a New Zealand Heading Dog

How to Find a Trainer For Your New Zealand Heading Dog: 6 Things to Look For

• 1) A great reputation, ask around and get suggestions from the doctor, other New Zealand Heading Dog 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 New Zealand Heading Dogs.
• 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 New Zealand Heading Dog’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Basic New Zealand Heading Dog Obedience Tips

Training has to be a pleasant and rewarding experience for both you and your New Zealand Heading Dog. If you’re not in the right mood for training, do not even think of beginning. Always commend your New Zealand Heading Dog for listening to your orders exactly! A prize is anything that your New Zealand Heading Dog wants and is willing to work for. Snacks are a great reward but other rewards could be verbalized praise and playthings. Many shorter sessions are demonstrated to be more effective than a single long one. Training should not contain any negative comments or punishment. There should be no yelling, no hitting or smacking, no leash jerking on training chains or collars, and absolutely no electric shocking! Every single training opportunity needs to be enjoyed and confidence-building with treats for each job well done.

Training New Zealand Heading Dogs with head collars

Yanking the lead is one of the few unpleasant requirements of raising a new New Zealand Heading Dog puppy. Utilizing a head collar for New Zealand Heading Dog training has become standard throughout the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some benefits over the standard training collar. Though it’s quite easy to utilize, it is imperative that head collars are fit correctly and your New Zealand Heading Dog correctly introduced to the collar. Head collars are pretty much more easy to use than an usual training collar. Head collars are very powerful when guiding New Zealand Heading Dogs in tricky situations.

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