Finding the Right Person to Train Your Miniature Pinscher

How to Find a Trainer For Your Miniature Pinscher: What to Look For

• 1) A great reputation, ask around and get recommendations from your vet, other Miniature Pinscher 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 Miniature Pinschers.
• 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 Miniature Pinscher’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

General Miniature Pinscher Obedience Tips

Training needs to be a positive and rewarding experience for both you and your Miniature Pinscher. If you are not in the right mindset for training, do not even think of starting. Always reward the Miniature Pinscher for obeying your commands to the letter! A prize is anything that your Miniature Pinscher wants and is happy to work for. Food is a great reward but other treats could be oral praise and toys. Several brief training sessions are demonstrated to be more effective than a long one. Training shouldn’t contain any degrading comments or consequences. There should be no yelling, no hitting or smacking, no leash jerking on choke chains or collars, and absolutely no electric fences! Every single training opportunity needs to be pleasant and reinforcing with treats for each job well done.

Training Miniature Pinschers with head collars

Yanking the leash is one of the few negative jobs of raising a new Miniature Pinscher puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Miniature Pinscher training has become very popular over the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some benefits over the usual training collar. Even though it is quite simple to use, it’s vital that head collars are fitted properly and your Miniature Pinscher properly introduced to the collar. Head collars are usually more easy to use than a standard training collar. Head collars are very effective when guiding Miniature Pinschers in tricky situations.

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