How to Find a Trainer for Your Irish Wolfhound

How to Find a Trainer For Your Irish Wolfhound: What to Look For

• 1) A good reputation, inquire and get insight from your animal doctor, other Irish Wolfhound 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 Irish Wolfhounds.
• 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 Irish Wolfhound’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Standard Irish Wolfhound Obedience Tips

Training has to be a pleasant and enjoyable situation for both you and the Irish Wolfhound. If you’re not in the best mood for training, do not even start. Always reward the Irish Wolfhound for following your orders precisely! A treat is anything that your Irish Wolfhound desires and is happy to work for. Snacks are an obvious prize but other rewards could be verbalized commendation and toys. Many shorter sessions are demonstrated to be better than a long one. Training must not contain any negative comments or consequences. There should be no yelling, no hitting or smacking, no leash jerking on choke chains or collars, and absolutely no electric fences! Each training session must be enjoyable and positive with treats for each job well done.

Training Irish Wolfhounds with head collars

Pulling on the leash is one of the few negative jobs of bringing up a new Irish Wolfhound puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Irish Wolfhound training has become standard over the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some benefits over the standard training collar. Although very easy to use, it’s crucial that head collars are fitted correctly and your Irish Wolfhound correctly introduced to the collar. Head collars are usually more intuitive to use than a traditional training collar. Head collars are quite effective when guiding Irish Wolfhounds in tricky situations.

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