Finding the Right Trainer for Your Chesapeake Bay Retriever

How to Find a Trainer For Your Chesapeake Bay Retriever: Six Things to Look For

• 1) A good reputation, inquire and get insight from the animal doctor, other Chesapeake Bay Retriever 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 Chesapeake Bay Retrievers.
• 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 Chesapeake Bay Retriever’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Basic Chesapeake Bay Retriever Obedience Tips

Training should be a pleasant and enjoyable experience for both you and your Chesapeake Bay Retriever. If you are not in the best mindset for training, don’t even start. Always reward the Chesapeake Bay Retriever for following your commands precisely! A treat is anything that your Chesapeake Bay Retriever desires and is happy to earn. Food is a great prize but different rewards could be verbalized praise and playthings. Multiple brief training sessions are typically more effective than a single long one. Training mustn’t contain any degrading comments or punishment. There should be no shouting, no hitting or smacking, no chain yanking on training chains or collars, and absolutely no electric fences! Every training session should be pleasant and confidence-building with prizes for jobs well done.

Training Chesapeake Bay Retrievers with head collars

Pulling on the lead is one of the few displeasing experiences of raising a new Chesapeake Bay Retriever puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Chesapeake Bay Retriever 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 easy to use, it is important that head collars are fit properly and your Chesapeake Bay Retriever properly introduced to the collar. Head collars are typically more easy to use than a traditional training collar. Head collars are quite powerful when training Chesapeake Bay Retrievers in difficult situations.

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