With so many people advertising in the field of professional dog training right now, learning who’s really qualified to care for your Poodle can be tiresome. What to examine for when choosing a trainer to help you with training your Poodle:
How to Find a Trainer For Your Poodle: What to Look For
- 1) A great reputation, ask around and get insight from your animal doctor, other Poodle 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 Poodles.
- 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 Poodle’s well being.
- 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.
Standard Poodle Obedience Tips
Training should be a pleasant and rewarding situation for both you and your Poodle. If you are not in the right mindset for training, don’t even think of starting. Always treat the Poodle for following your commands expeditiously! A treat is anything that your Poodle wants and is willing to work for. Snacks are the typical prize but different rewards could be verbal praise and playthings. Several brief sessions are usually more effective than a single long one. Training must not contain any degrading components or consequences. There should be no shouting, no hitting or smacking, no leash yanking on training leashes or collars, and absolutely no electric fences! Each training session must be enjoyed and confidence-building with prizes for each job well done.
Training Poodles with head collars
Yanking the leash is one of the few unpleasant jobs of bringing up a new Poodle puppy. Using a head collar for Poodle training has become standard throughout the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some unique advantages over the usual training collar. Although quite easy to utilize, it is imperative that head collars are fitted correctly and your Poodle correctly introduced to the collar. Head collars are pretty much more intuitive to use than a standard training collar. Head collars are very powerful when guiding Poodles in tricky situations.
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