With so many folks advertising in the field of professional dog training right now, finding out who’s actually qualified to care for your Landseer can be overwhelming. What to prepare for when deciding on a professional to help you with training your Landseer:
How to Find a Trainer For Your Landseer: What to Look For
- 1) A respected reputation, inquire and obtain insight from your animal doctor, other Landseer 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 Landseers.
- 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 Landseer’s well being.
- 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.
General Landseer Obedience Tips
Training needs to be a pleasant and enjoyable experience for both you and the Landseer. If you are not in the right mindset for training, do not even begin. Always treat the Landseer for heeding your commands to the letter! A treat is anything that your Landseer desires and is willing to earn. Edible treats are an obvious prize but other rewards could be verbalized commendation and toys. Multiple shorter training sessions are demonstrated to be better than 1 long one. Training must not involve any negative components or punishment. There should be no yelling, no smacking or hitting, no leash yanking on choke leashes or collars, and absolutely no electric fences! Every training session is to be enjoyable and confidence-building with rewards for jobs well done.
Training Landseers with head collars
Yanking the leash is one of the few displeasing experiences of bringing up a new Landseer puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Landseer training has become standard in the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the standard training collar. Although quite simple to utilize, it is vital that head collars are fit properly and your Landseer correctly introduced to the collar. Head collars are usually more intuitive to use than a standard training collar. Head collars are quite powerful when training Landseers in tricky situations.
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