How to Find a Trainer for Your Croatian Sheepdog

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

• 1) A great reputation, inquire and obtain recommendations from your animal doctor, other Croatian 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 Croatian 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 Croatian Sheepdog’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Basic Croatian Sheepdog Obedience Tips

Training must be a pleasant and enjoyable situation for both you and your Croatian Sheepdog. If you’re not in the right mood for training, don’t even start. Always treat the Croatian Sheepdog for heeding your orders to the tee! A prize is anything that your Croatian Sheepdog wants and is willing to earn. Edible treats are the expected prize but different treats could be verbal praise and playthings. Several brief sessions are demonstrated to be better than a single long one. Training mustn’t contain any degrading comments or consequences. There should be no shouting, no smacking or hitting, no chain yanking on choke leashes or collars, and absolutely no electric shocking! Each training opportunity must be pleasant and positive with prizes for each job well done.

Training Croatian Sheepdogs with head collars

Pulling on the lead is one of the few displeasing jobs of raising a new Croatian Sheepdog puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Croatian Sheepdog training has become standard over the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the usual training collar. Though it’s very simple to use, it is imperative that head collars are fit properly and your Croatian Sheepdog correctly introduced to the collar. Head collars are usually more easy to use than a typical training collar. Head collars are very effective when guiding Croatian Sheepdogs in tricky situations.

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