How to Find a Trainer for a Spanish Mastiff

How to Find a Trainer For Your Spanish Mastiff: 6 Things to Look For

• 1) A stellar reputation, inquire and get insight from the veterinarian, other Spanish Mastiff 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 Spanish Mastiffs.
• 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 Spanish Mastiff’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Basic Spanish Mastiff Obedience Tips

Training needs to be a positive and rewarding situation for both you and your Spanish Mastiff. If you’re not in the right mindset for training, do not even begin. Always reward your Spanish Mastiff for listening to your orders promptly! A prize is anything that your Spanish Mastiff wants and is willing to earn. Food is a great prize but other treats could be verbalized commendation and toys. Several shorter training sessions are typically better than a single long one. Training must not contain any negative components or punishment. There should be no yelling, no smacking or hitting, no leash jerking on training chains or collars, and absolutely no electric shocking! Each training session is to be pleasant and positive with rewards for each job well done.

Training Spanish Mastiffs with head collars

Dragging the leash is one of the few unpleasant jobs of training a new Spanish Mastiff puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Spanish Mastiff training has become very popular during the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the standard training collar. Although quite simple to use, it is vital that head collars are fit correctly and your Spanish Mastiff correctly introduced to the collar. Head collars are pretty much more simple to use than a standard training collar. Head collars are very effective when training Spanish Mastiffs in difficult situations.

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