How to Find a Trainer for Your Akbash

How to Find a Trainer For Your Akbash: What to Look For

• 1) A respected reputation, ask around and get advice from your animal doctor, other Akbash 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 Akbashs.
• 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 Akbash’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Basic Akbash Obedience Tips

Training must be a positive and rewarding situation for both you and the Akbash. If you are not in the right mood for training, do not even begin. Always commend your Akbash for following your orders expeditiously! A treat is anything that your Akbash wants and is happy to earn. Food is the expected prize but different prizes could be verbalized praise and playthings. Multiple brief sessions are demonstrated to be more effective than one long one. Training should not contain any degrading comments or punishment. There should be no shouting, no hitting or smacking, no leash jerking on training chains or collars, and absolutely no electric shocking! Each training opportunity needs to be pleasant and positive with rewards for jobs well done.

Training Akbashs with head collars

Yanking the lead is one of the few negative jobs of raising a new Akbash puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Akbash training has become very popular throughout the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some unique advantages over the traditional training collar. Although very easy to utilize, it is vital that head collars are fit correctly and your Akbash systematically introduced to the collar. Head collars are pretty much more intuitive to use than a typical training collar. Head collars are quite powerful when guiding Akbashs in difficult situations.

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