Finding the Right Trainer for Your East-European Shepherd

How to Find a Trainer For Your East-European Shepherd: What to Look For

• 1) A respected reputation, inquire and obtain advice from your vet, other East-European Shepherd 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 East-European Shepherds.
• 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 East-European Shepherd’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Standard East-European Shepherd Obedience Tips

Training needs to be a positive and rewarding experience for both you and the East-European Shepherd. If you are not in the right mood for training, do not even think of beginning. Always reward the East-European Shepherd for following your orders expediently! A reward is anything that your East-European Shepherd wants and is happy to earn. Edible treats are the usual reward but different treats could be verbal commendation and playthings. Many brief training sessions are typically better than one long one. Training must not contain any negative components or punishment. There should be no shouting, no smacking or hitting, no chain jerking on training chains or collars, and absolutely no electricity! Every single training opportunity needs to be pleasant and positive with prizes for jobs well done.

Training East-European Shepherds with head collars

Pulling on the leash is one of the few displeasing requirements of bringing up a new East-European Shepherd puppy. Using a head collar for East-European Shepherd training has become very popular in the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some benefits over the regular training collar. While very simple to use, it’s vital that head collars are fitted correctly and your East-European Shepherd properly introduced to the collar. Head collars are pretty much more easy to use than an usual training collar. Head collars are very effective when training East-European Shepherds in tricky situations.

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