How to Find a Trainer for Your Silken Windhound

How to Find a Trainer For Your Silken Windhound: What to Look For

• 1) A good reputation, inquire and get insight from your veterinarian, other Silken Windhound 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 Silken Windhounds.
• 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 Silken Windhound’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Standard Silken Windhound Obedience Tips

Training has to be a positive and rewarding situation for both you and the Silken Windhound. If you are not in the right mood for training, do not even begin. Always commend your Silken Windhound for following your commands to the tee! A treat is anything that your Silken Windhound desires and is willing to work for. Food is the typical prize but other treats could be verbal commendation and playthings. Several shorter training sessions are typically more effective than one long one. Training should not contain any negative components or consequences. There should be no shouting, no smacking or hitting, no leash jerking on choke leashes or collars, and absolutely no electricity! Every single training session must be enjoyable and reinforcing with praise for jobs well done.

Training Silken Windhounds with head collars

Dragging the lead is one of the few negative experiences of bringing up a new Silken Windhound puppy. Using a head collar for Silken Windhound training has become standard over the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some benefits over the standard training collar. Though it’s quite simple to utilize, it is vital that head collars are fit correctly and your Silken Windhound correctly introduced to the collar. Head collars are generally more easy to use than an usual training collar. Head collars are very powerful when guiding Silken Windhounds in difficult situations.

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