With so many folks advertising in the field of professional dog training right now, deciding who’s actually qualified to look after your Border Terrier can be tiresome. What to look for when deciding on a professional to help you with training your Border Terrier:
How to Find a Trainer For Your Border Terrier: What to Look For
- 1) A great reputation, ask around and get advice from the veterinarian, other Border Terrier 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 Border Terriers.
- 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 Border Terrier’s well being.
- 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.
Basic Border Terrier Obedience Tips
Training needs to be a pleasant and enjoyable experience for both you and your Border Terrier. If you are not in the right mindset for training, do not even think of starting. Always reward the Border Terrier for obeying your commands to the letter! A treat is anything that your Border Terrier desires and is happy to earn. Food is an obvious reward but other prizes could be oral commendation and playthings. Multiple brief training sessions are demonstrated to be better than one long one. Training must not contain any degrading components or punishment. There should be no shouting, no hitting or smacking, no chain jerking on training leashes or collars, and absolutely no electricity! Each training session is to be pleasant and positive with rewards for jobs well done.
Training Border Terriers with head collars
Yanking the lead is one of the few negative tasks of raising a new Border Terrier puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Border Terrier training has become standard in the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some benefits over the usual training collar. Although quite simple to utilize, it’s crucial that head collars are fit correctly and your Border Terrier gradually introduced to the collar. Head collars are typically more easy to use than an usual training collar. Head collars are quite powerful when controlling Border Terriers in difficult situations.
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