Finding a Trainer for a Treeing Walker Coonhound

How to Find a Trainer For Your Treeing Walker Coonhound: 6 Things to Look For

• 1) A respected reputation, ask around and obtain advice from your veterinarian, other Treeing Walker Coonhound 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 Treeing Walker Coonhounds.
• 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 Treeing Walker Coonhound’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Basic Treeing Walker Coonhound Obedience Tips

Training should be a pleasant and enjoyable situation for both you and the Treeing Walker Coonhound. If you are not in the right mood for training, do not even think of starting. Always reward the Treeing Walker Coonhound for heeding your commands expeditiously! A reward is anything that your Treeing Walker Coonhound desires and is happy to work for. Food is a great reward but different rewards could be verbal praise and playthings. Many brief sessions are typically better than one long one. Training should not involve any degrading components or punishment. There should be no shouting, no hitting or smacking, no chain jerking on choke leashes or collars, and absolutely no electricity! Every training opportunity needs to be pleasant and positive with prizes for jobs well done.

Training Treeing Walker Coonhounds with head collars

Dragging the leash is one of the few negative requirements of training a new Treeing Walker Coonhound puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Treeing Walker Coonhound training has become very popular over the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some benefits over the standard training collar. Although very easy to use, it’s important that head collars are fit properly and your Treeing Walker Coonhound correctly introduced to the collar. Head collars are generally more easy to use than a traditional training collar. Head collars are very powerful when training Treeing Walker Coonhounds in tricky situations.

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