Finding a Trainer for Your Sarplaninac

How to Find a Trainer For Your Sarplaninac: What to Look For

• 1) A stellar reputation, inquire and get recommendations from your vet, other Sarplaninac 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 Sarplaninacs.
• 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 Sarplaninac’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Standard Sarplaninac Obedience Tips

Training should be a pleasant and enjoyable experience for both you and your Sarplaninac. If you’re not in the best mindset for training, don’t even begin. Always reward the Sarplaninac for obeying your commands to the letter! A treat is anything that your Sarplaninac desires and is happy to earn. Edible treats are an obvious reward but other rewards could be verbal commendation and toys. Several shorter sessions are much more effective than 1 long one. Training must not contain any degrading comments or consequences. There should be no yelling, no hitting or smacking, no leash yanking on choke chains or collars, and absolutely no electric fences! Every single training opportunity needs to be pleasant and reinforcing with prizes for jobs well done.

Training Sarplaninacs with head collars

Yanking the leash is one of the few negative jobs of bringing up a new Sarplaninac puppy. Using a head collar for Sarplaninac training has become standard in the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the regular training collar. Though it’s quite easy to utilize, it is vital that head collars are fitted properly and your Sarplaninac correctly introduced to the collar. Head collars are pretty much more easy to use than a traditional training collar. Head collars are very powerful when guiding Sarplaninacs in difficult situations.

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