How to Find the Right Person to Train a English Toy Terrier

How to Find a Trainer For Your English Toy Terrier: Six Things to Look For

• 1) A respected reputation, ask around and obtain recommendations from the vet, other English Toy 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 English Toy 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 English Toy Terrier’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

General English Toy Terrier Obedience Tips

Training needs to be a positive and rewarding experience for both you and your English Toy Terrier. If you’re not in the best mindset for training, do not even start. Always reward the English Toy Terrier for listening to your orders to the letter! A reward is anything that your English Toy Terrier desires and is willing to earn. Food is the typical prize but other prizes could be verbalized praise and toys. Multiple shorter training sessions are demonstrated to be more effective than 1 long one. Training mustn’t involve any negative comments or consequences. There should be no yelling, no hitting or smacking, no chain jerking on training leashes or collars, and absolutely no electric fences! Every training opportunity should be enjoyable and confidence-building with praise for jobs well done.

Training English Toy Terriers with head collars

Yanking the leash is one of the few negative jobs of raising a new English Toy Terrier puppy. Utilizing a head collar for English Toy Terrier training has become very popular during the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the traditional training collar. Even though it is quite easy to utilize, it is crucial that head collars are fitted correctly and your English Toy Terrier properly introduced to the collar. Head collars are typically more simple to use than a standard training collar. Head collars are very effective when controlling English Toy Terriers in tricky situations.

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