Finding the Right Person to Train Your Longhaired Whippet

How to Find a Trainer For Your Longhaired Whippet: 6 Things to Look For

• 1) A respected reputation, inquire and obtain recommendations from your animal doctor, other Longhaired Whippet 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 Longhaired Whippets.
• 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 Longhaired Whippet’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Basic Longhaired Whippet Obedience Tips

Training needs to be a pleasant and enjoyable situation for both you and the Longhaired Whippet. If you’re not in the best mood for training, do not even think of beginning. Always reward your Longhaired Whippet for obeying your orders expeditiously! A reward is anything that your Longhaired Whippet desires and is happy to earn. Food is an obvious prize but different prizes could be oral admiration and playthings. Several brief training sessions are demonstrated to be more effective than a long one. Training must not contain any degrading components or consequences. There should be no yelling, no hitting or smacking, no leash yanking on choke leashes or collars, and absolutely no electricity! Every single training opportunity must be pleasant and positive with prizes for each job well done.

Training Longhaired Whippets with head collars

Yanking the lead is one of the few displeasing tasks of bringing up a new Longhaired Whippet puppy. Using a head collar for Longhaired Whippet training has become very popular over the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the usual training collar. Even though it is very simple to utilize, it’s crucial that head collars are fitted correctly and your Longhaired Whippet systematically introduced to the collar. Head collars are usually more easy to use than a regular training collar. Head collars are very effective when guiding Longhaired Whippets in tricky situations.

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