Finding the Right Trainer for Your Boykin Spaniel

How to Find a Trainer For Your Boykin Spaniel: 6 Things to Look For

• 1) A good reputation, inquire and obtain suggestions from your doctor, other Boykin Spaniel 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 Boykin Spaniels.
• 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 Boykin Spaniel’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Standard Boykin Spaniel Obedience Tips

Training needs to be a positive and rewarding experience for both you and the Boykin Spaniel. If you’re not in the right mood for training, do not even think of beginning. Always treat the Boykin Spaniel for obeying your orders exactly! A reward is anything that your Boykin Spaniel desires and is willing to earn. Food is the typical reward but different rewards could be verbalized commendation and playthings. Many brief sessions are usually more effective than a single long one. Training shouldn’t involve any degrading components or consequences. There should be no shouting, no hitting or smacking, no leash jerking on training chains or collars, and absolutely no electric fences! Every single training session needs to be enjoyable and confidence-building with praise for a job well done.

Training Boykin Spaniels with head collars

Yanking the leash is one of the few displeasing requirements of bringing up a new Boykin Spaniel puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Boykin Spaniel training has become very popular throughout the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some unique advantages over the traditional training collar. Even though it is quite simple to use, it is important that head collars are fit properly and your Boykin Spaniel correctly introduced to the collar. Head collars are typically more intuitive to use than a regular training collar. Head collars are quite effective when guiding Boykin Spaniels in difficult situations.

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