How to Find a Trainer for a Maremma Sheepdog

How to Find a Trainer For Your Maremma Sheepdog: What to Look For

• 1) A good reputation, ask around and get insight from your doctor, other Maremma Sheepdog 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 Maremma Sheepdogs.
• 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 Maremma Sheepdog’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Standard Maremma Sheepdog Obedience Tips

Training should be a pleasant and enjoyable experience for both you and your Maremma Sheepdog. If you are not in the right mindset for training, don’t even think of starting. Always reward your Maremma Sheepdog for listening to your commands exactly! A reward is anything that your Maremma Sheepdog wants and is happy to earn. Food is a great reward but other treats could be verbal commendation and toys. Several brief sessions are typically more effective than 1 long one. Training mustn’t involve any degrading components or punishment. There should be no shouting, no smacking or hitting, no leash jerking on training chains or collars, and absolutely no electricity! Every single training session should be pleasant and reinforcing with prizes for a job well done.

Training Maremma Sheepdogs with head collars

Dragging the lead is one of the few displeasing requirements of raising a new Maremma Sheepdog puppy. Using a head collar for Maremma Sheepdog training has become standard in the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some unique advantages over the regular training collar. Although quite easy to utilize, it is important that head collars are fitted properly and your Maremma Sheepdog properly introduced to the collar. Head collars are typically more easy to use than a traditional training collar. Head collars are very effective when guiding Maremma Sheepdogs in tricky situations.

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