With so many people advertising in the industry of professional dog training right now, finding out who’s truly best qualified to care for your Tosa can be tiresome. What to consider for when determining a professional to help you with training your Tosa:
How to Find a Trainer For Your Tosa: 6 Things to Look For
- 1) A stellar reputation, ask around and get insight from the vet, other Tosa 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 Tosas.
- 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 Tosa’s well being.
- 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.
Basic Tosa Obedience Tips
Training needs to be a pleasant and rewarding situation for both you and your Tosa. If you are not in the best mindset for training, don’t even think of starting. Always commend your Tosa for obeying your commands promptly! A prize is anything that your Tosa desires and is willing to earn. Snacks are a great prize but different prizes could be oral praise and toys. Multiple shorter sessions are much better than one long one. Training shouldn’t contain any degrading components or punishment. There should be no yelling, no smacking or hitting, no leash yanking on training leashes or collars, and absolutely no electricity! Every single training session should be pleasant and positive with praise for a job well done.
Training Tosas with head collars
Yanking the lead is one of the few negative requirements of bringing up a new Tosa puppy. Using a head collar for Tosa training has become very popular during the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the usual training collar. While quite simple to use, it is imperative that head collars are fitted properly and your Tosa systematically introduced to the collar. Head collars are pretty much more easy to use than a standard training collar. Head collars are quite powerful when training Tosas in tricky situations.
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