Finding the Right Person to Train Your Stephens Cur

How to Find a Trainer For Your Stephens Cur: Six Things to Look For

• 1) A great reputation, ask around and obtain recommendations from your doctor, other Stephens Cur 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 Stephens Curs.
• 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 Stephens Cur’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Basic Stephens Cur Obedience Tips

Training must be a positive and rewarding experience for both you and the Stephens Cur. If you’re not in the right mindset for training, don’t even begin. Always reward your Stephens Cur for obeying your orders to the letter! A reward is anything that your Stephens Cur desires and is happy to work for. Food is the usual reward but different rewards could be oral admiration and playthings. Multiple shorter training sessions are demonstrated to be better than a long one. Training must not involve any negative comments or punishment. There should be no yelling, no smacking or hitting, no leash yanking on choke leashes or collars, and absolutely no electricity! Each training session must be enjoyable and confidence-building with treats for each job well done.

Training Stephens Curs with head collars

Dragging the leash is one of the few negative requirements of training a new Stephens Cur puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Stephens Cur training has become very popular during the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some unique advantages over the regular training collar. Although very easy to use, it’s important that head collars are fit properly and your Stephens Cur correctly introduced to the collar. Head collars are pretty much more intuitive to use than a traditional training collar. Head collars are quite powerful when controlling Stephens Curs in difficult situations.

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