With so many folks marketing in the field of professional dog training today, finding out who’s actually qualified to care for your Harrier can be astonishing. What to examine for when selecting a professional to help you with training your Harrier:
How to Find a Trainer For Your Harrier: What to Look For
- 1) A respected reputation, ask around and get suggestions from your animal doctor, other Harrier 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 Harriers.
- 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 Harrier’s well being.
- 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.
Standard Harrier Obedience Tips
Training must be a positive and rewarding experience for both you and the Harrier. If you are not in the right mindset for training, don’t even start. Always treat the Harrier for following your commands to the tee! A reward is anything that your Harrier wants and is willing to earn. Food is a great reward but different rewards could be verbal admiration and playthings. Several brief sessions are usually better than a single long one. Training shouldn’t involve any negative comments or consequences. There should be no shouting, no smacking or hitting, no chain jerking on choke chains or collars, and absolutely no electric shocking! Each training session needs to be enjoyed and confidence-building with praise for each job well done.
Training Harriers with head collars
Dragging the lead is one of the few displeasing experiences of raising a new Harrier puppy. Using a head collar for Harrier training has become very popular in 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’s important that head collars are fitted properly and your Harrier gradually introduced to the collar. Head collars are usually more intuitive to use than an usual training collar. Head collars are quite effective when training Harriers in tricky situations.
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