How to Find a Trainer for Your Picardy Spaniel

How to Find a Trainer For Your Picardy Spaniel: What to Look For

• 1) A great reputation, ask around and get recommendations from the vet, other Picardy Spaniel 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 Picardy Spaniels.
• 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 Picardy Spaniel’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Basic Picardy Spaniel Obedience Tips

Training must be a pleasant and enjoyable situation for both you and your Picardy Spaniel. If you are not in the best mood for training, do not even start. Always treat your Picardy Spaniel for obeying your commands expeditiously! A treat is anything that your Picardy Spaniel wants and is happy to work for. Food is a great reward but other treats could be verbal admiration and playthings. Many shorter training sessions are usually more effective than a long one. Training should not involve any degrading comments or consequences. There should be no yelling, no smacking or hitting, no chain jerking on training leashes or collars, and absolutely no electricity! Every training session needs to be enjoyable and positive with praise for a job well done.

Training Picardy Spaniels with head collars

Dragging the leash is one of the few negative experiences of training a new Picardy Spaniel puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Picardy Spaniel training has become standard in the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the traditional training collar. While very easy to use, it is important that head collars are fit properly and your Picardy Spaniel correctly introduced to the collar. Head collars are usually more simple to use than a standard training collar. Head collars are very powerful when controlling Picardy Spaniels in difficult situations.

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