With so many people marketing in the world of professional dog training right now, deciding who’s truly qualified to train your Leonberger can be astonishing. What to prepare for when picking a trainer to help you with training your Leonberger:
How to Find a Trainer For Your Leonberger: Six Things to Look For
- 1) A great reputation, ask around and get advice from the vet, other Leonberger 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 Leonbergers.
- 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 Leonberger’s well being.
- 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.
General Leonberger Obedience Tips
Training has to be a positive and rewarding situation for both you and the Leonberger. If you’re not in the right mindset for training, don’t even begin. Always commend your Leonberger for obeying your commands to the letter! A reward is anything that your Leonberger wants and is happy to earn. Food is the usual reward but different rewards could be verbal admiration and playthings. Many shorter training sessions are much more effective than one long one. Training shouldn’t involve any degrading comments or punishment. There should be no shouting, no smacking or hitting, no leash yanking on training leashes or collars, and absolutely no electric fences! Every single training session needs to be enjoyable and confidence-building with treats for jobs well done.
Training Leonbergers with head collars
Dragging the leash is one of the few displeasing experiences of bringing up a new Leonberger puppy. Using a head collar for Leonberger training has become very popular in the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the traditional training collar. Although very simple to use, it’s vital that head collars are fit properly and your Leonberger systematically introduced to the collar. Head collars are generally more intuitive to use than a traditional training collar. Head collars are quite powerful when controlling Leonbergers in tricky situations.
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