With so many people advertising in the world of professional dog training right now, learning who’s truly best to train your French Brittany can be confusing. What to examine for when choosing a trainer to help you with training your French Brittany:
How to Find a Trainer For Your French Brittany: What to Look For
- 1) A good reputation, ask around and get insight from the animal doctor, other French Brittany 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 French Brittanys.
- 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 French Brittany’s well being.
- 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.
Basic French Brittany Obedience Tips
Training has to be a positive and enjoyable situation for both you and your French Brittany. If you are not in the right mindset for training, don’t even think of beginning. Always reward your French Brittany for obeying your commands promptly! A treat is anything that your French Brittany desires and is willing to work for. Snacks are the expected reward but other rewards could be oral praise and toys. Many shorter training sessions are usually better than a long one. Training mustn’t involve any degrading comments or consequences. There should be no yelling, no smacking or hitting, no chain jerking on choke chains or collars, and absolutely no electric shocking! Each training opportunity must be pleasant and reinforcing with rewards for each job well done.
Training French Brittanys with head collars
Yanking the leash is one of the few unpleasant experiences of training a new French Brittany puppy. Utilizing a head collar for French Brittany training has become very popular over the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some unique advantages over the standard training collar. While very easy to use, it is vital that head collars are fitted properly and your French Brittany systematically introduced to the collar. Head collars are typically more simple to use than an usual training collar. Head collars are very powerful when guiding French Brittanys in tricky situations.
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