Finding the Right Trainer for a Grand Griffon Vendeen

How to Find a Trainer For Your Grand Griffon Vendeen: 6 Things to Look For

• 1) A great reputation, inquire and obtain recommendations from your animal doctor, other Grand Griffon Vendeen 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 Grand Griffon Vendeens.
• 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 Grand Griffon Vendeen’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

General Grand Griffon Vendeen Obedience Tips

Training must be a positive and rewarding situation for both you and your Grand Griffon Vendeen. If you are not in the best mindset for training, don’t even think of starting. Always treat the Grand Griffon Vendeen for listening to your commands expeditiously! A prize is anything that your Grand Griffon Vendeen desires and is happy to earn. Food is the typical prize but different prizes could be verbal praise and toys. Many shorter sessions are usually more effective than one long one. Training mustn’t contain any negative comments or consequences. There should be no yelling, no hitting or smacking, no leash yanking on choke leashes or collars, and absolutely no electricity! Every training session must be enjoyable and positive with prizes for a job well done.

Training Grand Griffon Vendeens with head collars

Pulling on the lead is one of the few unpleasant tasks of bringing up a new Grand Griffon Vendeen puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Grand Griffon Vendeen training has become very popular over the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some unique advantages over the usual training collar. Although quite easy to utilize, it is imperative that head collars are fitted properly and your Grand Griffon Vendeen correctly introduced to the collar. Head collars are generally more intuitive to use than a standard training collar. Head collars are very powerful when controlling Grand Griffon Vendeens in tricky situations.

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