With so many folks advertising in the field of professional dog training today, finding out who’s really best qualified to train your Malinois can be overwhelming. What to prepare for when selecting a professional to help you with training your Malinois:
How to Find a Trainer For Your Malinois: What to Look For
- 1) A great reputation, ask around and get advice from your veterinarian, other Malinois 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 Malinoiss.
- 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 Malinois’s well being.
- 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.
Basic Malinois Obedience Tips
Training has to be a pleasant and enjoyable experience for both you and the Malinois. If you’re not in the right mindset for training, don’t even think of starting. Always treat your Malinois for obeying your commands exactly! A treat is anything that your Malinois desires and is willing to work for. Food is a great reward but other treats could be verbalized admiration and playthings. Multiple shorter sessions are demonstrated to be more effective than 1 long one. Training shouldn’t contain any degrading components or punishment. There should be no yelling, no smacking or hitting, no leash yanking on choke leashes or collars, and absolutely no electric fences! Every single training session needs to be enjoyed and confidence-building with rewards for each job well done.
Training Malinoiss with head collars
Pulling on the lead is one of the few displeasing experiences of bringing up a new Malinois puppy. Using a head collar for Malinois training has become very popular during the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some unique advantages over the usual training collar. While very simple to use, it’s vital that head collars are fit properly and your Malinois properly introduced to the collar. Head collars are pretty much more simple to use than an usual training collar. Head collars are quite effective when guiding Malinoiss in tricky situations.
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