Finding a Trainer for Your Koolie

How to Find a Trainer For Your Koolie: Six Things to Look For

• 1) A respected reputation, ask around and obtain recommendations from the animal doctor, other Koolie 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 Koolies.
• 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 Koolie’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Standard Koolie Obedience Tips

Training has to be a pleasant and rewarding situation for both you and the Koolie. If you are not in the right mindset for training, don’t even start. Always reward your Koolie for obeying your orders expediently! A treat is anything that your Koolie desires and is willing to work for. Snacks are the expected reward but other prizes could be verbal admiration and playthings. Multiple brief training sessions are demonstrated to be more effective than 1 long one. Training shouldn’t contain any degrading comments or punishment. There should be no shouting, no smacking or hitting, no chain jerking on choke chains or collars, and absolutely no electric shocking! Each training opportunity is to be enjoyable and reinforcing with treats for a job well done.

Training Koolies with head collars

Yanking the lead is one of the few negative requirements of raising a new Koolie puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Koolie training has become standard in the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the standard training collar. Although very easy to use, it’s vital that head collars are fitted properly and your Koolie gradually introduced to the collar. Head collars are pretty much more simple to use than a typical training collar. Head collars are very powerful when training Koolies in tricky situations.

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