Finding the Right Person to Train a St. John’s Water Dog

How to Find a Trainer For Your St. John’s Water Dog: What to Look For

• 1) A stellar reputation, ask around and get advice from your doctor, other St. John’s Water Dog 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 St. John’s Water Dogs.
• 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 St. John’s Water Dog’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Standard St. John’s Water Dog Obedience Tips

Training needs to be a positive and enjoyable situation for both you and your St. John’s Water Dog. If you’re not in the best mood for training, don’t even think of beginning. Always treat the St. John’s Water Dog for heeding your commands expeditiously! A reward is anything that your St. John’s Water Dog wants and is happy to earn. Food is an obvious prize but different prizes could be oral praise and toys. Several shorter sessions are usually better than a single long one. Training mustn’t contain any negative components or consequences. There should be no yelling, no hitting or smacking, no leash yanking on choke leashes or collars, and absolutely no electric shocking! Each training session should be pleasant and reinforcing with rewards for a job well done.

Training St. John’s Water Dogs with head collars

Yanking the leash is one of the few negative experiences of bringing up a new St. John’s Water Dog puppy. Using a head collar for St. John’s Water Dog training has become standard over the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the usual training collar. While quite easy to utilize, it is crucial that head collars are fitted correctly and your St. John’s Water Dog systematically introduced to the collar. Head collars are generally more simple to use than a regular training collar. Head collars are quite effective when guiding St. John’s Water Dogs in tricky situations.

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