How to Find a Trainer for a Lancashire Heeler

How to Find a Trainer For Your Lancashire Heeler: What to Look For

• 1) A pristine reputation, inquire and get suggestions from your vet, other Lancashire Heeler 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 Lancashire Heelers.
• 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 Lancashire Heeler’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Standard Lancashire Heeler Obedience Tips

Training should be a pleasant and rewarding situation for both you and the Lancashire Heeler. If you’re not in the right mindset for training, don’t even begin. Always reward your Lancashire Heeler for heeding your orders promptly! A reward is anything that your Lancashire Heeler wants and is happy to work for. Snacks are a great reward but different treats could be oral praise and toys. Multiple brief training sessions are much more effective than 1 long one. Training must not involve any degrading comments or punishment. There should be no shouting, no hitting or smacking, no leash yanking on choke chains or collars, and absolutely no electricity! Every single training opportunity needs to be enjoyed and reinforcing with praise for each job well done.

Training Lancashire Heelers with head collars

Dragging the lead is one of the few negative experiences of training a new Lancashire Heeler puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Lancashire Heeler training has become very popular throughout the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some benefits over the usual training collar. Even though it is quite simple to use, it is imperative that head collars are fitted properly and your Lancashire Heeler gradually introduced to the collar. Head collars are usually more simple to use than an usual training collar. Head collars are quite powerful when controlling Lancashire Heelers in tricky situations.

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