Finding a Trainer for Your Black Norwegian Elkhound

How to Find a Trainer For Your Black Norwegian Elkhound: 6 Things to Look For

• 1) A respected reputation, ask around and get insight from your animal doctor, other Black Norwegian Elkhound 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 Black Norwegian Elkhounds.
• 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 Black Norwegian Elkhound’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Basic Black Norwegian Elkhound Obedience Tips

Training needs to be a positive and rewarding situation for both you and the Black Norwegian Elkhound. If you’re not in the right mood for training, don’t even begin. Always treat the Black Norwegian Elkhound for following your commands expediently! A prize is anything that your Black Norwegian Elkhound desires and is willing to earn. Food is an obvious reward but other prizes could be oral praise and playthings. Several brief sessions are much more effective than a single long one. Training mustn’t contain any negative comments or consequences. There should be no shouting, no smacking or hitting, no chain jerking on choke chains or collars, and absolutely no electricity! Each training opportunity should be enjoyable and reinforcing with praise for a job well done.

Training Black Norwegian Elkhounds with head collars

Dragging the lead is one of the few negative tasks of raising a new Black Norwegian Elkhound puppy. Using a head collar for Black Norwegian Elkhound training has become standard during the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some unique advantages over the usual training collar. Even though it is very simple to use, it’s imperative that head collars are fit properly and your Black Norwegian Elkhound gradually introduced to the collar. Head collars are typically more simple to use than an usual training collar. Head collars are quite powerful when training Black Norwegian Elkhounds in difficult situations.

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