Finding the Right Trainer for Your Italian Greyhound

How to Find a Trainer For Your Italian Greyhound: 6 Things to Look For

• 1) A pristine reputation, inquire and obtain advice from the doctor, other Italian Greyhound 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 Italian Greyhounds.
• 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 Italian Greyhound’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Basic Italian Greyhound Obedience Tips

Training should be a positive and rewarding situation for both you and the Italian Greyhound. If you’re not in the best mood for training, don’t even think of starting. Always reward your Italian Greyhound for listening to your commands expeditiously! A prize is anything that your Italian Greyhound desires and is happy to earn. Food is an obvious prize but different rewards could be oral commendation and toys. Multiple shorter sessions are demonstrated to be more effective than 1 long one. Training shouldn’t involve any degrading comments or consequences. There should be no shouting, no hitting or smacking, no chain yanking on choke chains or collars, and absolutely no electricity! Every single training opportunity should be enjoyed and positive with prizes for jobs well done.

Training Italian Greyhounds with head collars

Yanking the lead is one of the few negative experiences of bringing up a new Italian Greyhound puppy. Using a head collar for Italian Greyhound training has become very popular during the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some unique advantages over the standard training collar. Though it’s quite simple to use, it is important that head collars are fitted correctly and your Italian Greyhound correctly introduced to the collar. Head collars are usually more easy to use than an usual training collar. Head collars are very effective when training Italian Greyhounds in difficult situations.

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