Finding the Right Person to Train a Old Time Farm Shepherd

How to Find a Trainer For Your Old Time Farm Shepherd: What to Look For

• 1) A great reputation, ask around and get advice from your vet, other Old Time Farm Shepherd 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 Old Time Farm Shepherds.
• 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 Old Time Farm Shepherd’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Standard Old Time Farm Shepherd Obedience Tips

Training must be a pleasant and enjoyable situation for both you and the Old Time Farm Shepherd. If you are not in the best mindset for training, do not even begin. Always reward your Old Time Farm Shepherd for obeying your commands promptly! A prize is anything that your Old Time Farm Shepherd wants and is happy to earn. Edible treats are the usual prize but different treats could be oral praise and toys. Multiple shorter training sessions are demonstrated to be more effective than a single long one. Training should not involve any degrading components or punishment. There should be no shouting, no hitting or smacking, no chain yanking on choke chains or collars, and absolutely no electric fences! Every training opportunity is to be enjoyable and confidence-building with rewards for jobs well done.

Training Old Time Farm Shepherds with head collars

Yanking the leash is one of the few displeasing requirements of training a new Old Time Farm Shepherd puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Old Time Farm Shepherd training has become very popular over the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some unique advantages over the traditional training collar. Though it’s very easy to utilize, it is important that head collars are fit correctly and your Old Time Farm Shepherd properly introduced to the collar. Head collars are usually more intuitive to use than a traditional training collar. Head collars are quite effective when training Old Time Farm Shepherds in tricky situations.

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