Finding a Trainer for a Spanish Water Dog

How to Find a Trainer For Your Spanish Water Dog: 6 Things to Look For

• 1) A good reputation, ask around and obtain advice from your vet, other Spanish Water 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 Spanish Water 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 Spanish Water Dog’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Basic Spanish Water Dog Obedience Tips

Training needs to be a positive and enjoyable situation for both you and your Spanish Water Dog. If you’re not in the best mindset for training, do not even start. Always reward your Spanish Water Dog for listening to your orders precisely! A treat is anything that your Spanish Water Dog wants and is willing to work for. Food is an obvious prize but different prizes could be verbal admiration and playthings. Multiple brief training sessions are much more effective than 1 long one. Training must not involve any negative components or consequences. There should be no shouting, no hitting or smacking, no leash yanking on training leashes or collars, and absolutely no electricity! Every training session is to be enjoyable and confidence-building with prizes for a job well done.

Training Spanish Water Dogs with head collars

Dragging the leash is one of the few displeasing experiences of raising a new Spanish Water Dog puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Spanish Water Dog training has become standard during the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the standard training collar. Although quite easy to utilize, it is crucial that head collars are fitted correctly and your Spanish Water Dog correctly introduced to the collar. Head collars are typically more simple to use than an usual training collar. Head collars are very powerful when training Spanish Water Dogs in difficult situations.

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