How to Find a Person to Train Your Karelian Bear Dog

How to Find a Trainer For Your Karelian Bear Dog: Six Things to Look For

• 1) A pristine reputation, ask around and get recommendations from your veterinarian, other Karelian Bear Dog 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 Karelian Bear Dogs.
• 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 Karelian Bear Dog’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Standard Karelian Bear Dog Obedience Tips

Training needs to be a positive and enjoyable situation for both you and the Karelian Bear Dog. If you are not in the right mindset for training, don’t even think of starting. Always commend the Karelian Bear Dog for heeding your commands expediently! A prize is anything that your Karelian Bear Dog desires and is happy to earn. Snacks are the usual prize but different rewards could be oral admiration and toys. Several brief training sessions are usually better than 1 long one. Training must not contain any degrading components or consequences. There should be no shouting, no smacking or hitting, no chain yanking on training leashes or collars, and absolutely no electric fences! Every single training session is to be enjoyed and positive with rewards for jobs well done.

Training Karelian Bear Dogs with head collars

Pulling on the leash is one of the few negative tasks of training a new Karelian Bear Dog puppy. Using a head collar for Karelian Bear Dog training has become standard during the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the standard training collar. Even though it is very easy to use, it is imperative that head collars are fit correctly and your Karelian Bear Dog properly introduced to the collar. Head collars are usually more intuitive to use than a standard training collar. Head collars are quite powerful when controlling Karelian Bear Dogs in tricky situations.

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