How to Find a Trainer for a Irish Water Spaniel

How to Find a Trainer For Your Irish Water Spaniel: What to Look For

• 1) A great reputation, inquire and get insight from your animal doctor, other Irish Water Spaniel 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 Irish Water Spaniels.
• 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 Irish Water Spaniel’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Standard Irish Water Spaniel Obedience Tips

Training should be a pleasant and enjoyable situation for both you and the Irish Water Spaniel. If you’re not in the best mindset for training, do not even begin. Always reward the Irish Water Spaniel for heeding your commands promptly! A treat is anything that your Irish Water Spaniel wants and is willing to earn. Food is a great prize but other prizes could be oral admiration and toys. Several shorter sessions are typically better than one long one. Training should not contain any degrading comments or consequences. There should be no shouting, no hitting or smacking, no chain jerking on training chains or collars, and absolutely no electric shocking! Every single training opportunity needs to be enjoyable and reinforcing with praise for a job well done.

Training Irish Water Spaniels with head collars

Pulling on the lead is one of the few displeasing jobs of bringing up a new Irish Water Spaniel puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Irish Water Spaniel training has become very popular throughout the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the regular training collar. Although quite simple to use, it’s imperative that head collars are fit properly and your Irish Water Spaniel gradually introduced to the collar. Head collars are typically more easy to use than a standard training collar. Head collars are very powerful when controlling Irish Water Spaniels in tricky situations.

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