How to Find a Trainer for a Great Pyrenees

How to Find a Trainer For Your Great Pyrenees: What to Look For

• 1) A great reputation, inquire and get insight from the doctor, other Great Pyrenees 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 Great Pyreneess.
• 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 Great Pyrenees’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Standard Great Pyrenees Obedience Tips

Training must be a positive and rewarding experience for both you and the Great Pyrenees. If you’re not in the right mood for training, don’t even start. Always reward your Great Pyrenees for heeding your commands to the letter! A treat is anything that your Great Pyrenees desires and is happy to earn. Food is the usual reward but different prizes could be verbal commendation and toys. Multiple brief training sessions are much better than a single long one. Training shouldn’t contain any negative comments or punishment. There should be no yelling, no hitting or smacking, no leash yanking on choke leashes or collars, and absolutely no electric shocking! Every single training session should be enjoyed and confidence-building with treats for a job well done.

Training Great Pyreneess with head collars

Dragging the lead is one of the few unpleasant tasks of bringing up a new Great Pyrenees puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Great Pyrenees training has become standard during the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the regular training collar. Even though it is very simple to use, it is vital that head collars are fit properly and your Great Pyrenees gradually introduced to the collar. Head collars are typically more intuitive to use than a typical training collar. Head collars are quite powerful when training Great Pyreneess in tricky situations.

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