Finding the Right Trainer for Your Bichon Frise

How to Find a Trainer For Your Bichon Frise: Six Things to Look For

• 1) A respected reputation, ask around and get recommendations from your veterinarian, other Bichon Frise 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 Bichon Frises.
• 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 Bichon Frise’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

General Bichon Frise Obedience Tips

Training has to be a pleasant and enjoyable situation for both you and your Bichon Frise. If you are not in the right mindset for training, do not even think of beginning. Always commend your Bichon Frise for heeding your commands to the tee! A reward is anything that your Bichon Frise desires and is happy to work for. Food is the usual reward but different prizes could be verbalized admiration and playthings. Multiple brief training sessions are much better than a long one. Training should not contain any negative components or punishment. There should be no shouting, no smacking or hitting, no leash yanking on choke leashes or collars, and absolutely no electric shocking! Every single training session should be pleasant and positive with praise for jobs well done.

Training Bichon Frises with head collars

Dragging the leash is one of the few displeasing tasks of raising a new Bichon Frise puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Bichon Frise training has become standard over the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some unique advantages over the traditional training collar. While quite easy to use, it is important that head collars are fit properly and your Bichon Frise systematically introduced to the collar. Head collars are usually more easy to use than a standard training collar. Head collars are very effective when training Bichon Frises in difficult situations.

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