How to Find a Person to Train Your Greek Harehound

How to Find a Trainer For Your Greek Harehound: What to Look For

• 1) A great reputation, ask around and obtain insight from your veterinarian, other Greek Harehound 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 Greek Harehounds.
• 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 Greek Harehound’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Basic Greek Harehound Obedience Tips

Training needs to be a positive and enjoyable experience for both you and your Greek Harehound. If you are not in the best mood for training, do not even think of beginning. Always treat your Greek Harehound for obeying your orders precisely! A treat is anything that your Greek Harehound desires and is willing to work for. Food is the expected prize but different prizes could be verbal admiration and toys. Several brief training sessions are usually more effective than 1 long one. Training mustn’t contain any negative components or consequences. There should be no shouting, no smacking or hitting, no chain jerking on choke chains or collars, and absolutely no electric fences! Every training session should be enjoyed and reinforcing with prizes for each job well done.

Training Greek Harehounds with head collars

Yanking the leash is one of the few negative requirements of training a new Greek Harehound puppy. Using a head collar for Greek Harehound training has become very popular throughout the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the regular training collar. Though it’s quite simple to use, it’s important that head collars are fit correctly and your Greek Harehound systematically introduced to the collar. Head collars are usually more intuitive to use than an usual training collar. Head collars are very effective when training Greek Harehounds in tricky situations.

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