How to Find the Right Person to Train a Neapolitan Mastiff

How to Find a Trainer For Your Neapolitan Mastiff: 6 Things to Look For

• 1) A respected reputation, ask around and get advice from your animal doctor, other Neapolitan Mastiff 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 Neapolitan Mastiffs.
• 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 Neapolitan Mastiff’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Basic Neapolitan Mastiff Obedience Tips

Training must be a pleasant and rewarding experience for both you and the Neapolitan Mastiff. If you’re not in the best mindset for training, don’t even think of starting. Always commend the Neapolitan Mastiff for heeding your orders to the tee! A treat is anything that your Neapolitan Mastiff desires and is willing to work for. Food is the typical reward but different treats could be verbalized commendation and playthings. Many brief training sessions are demonstrated to be more effective than 1 long one. Training must not contain any degrading components or punishment. There should be no shouting, no hitting or smacking, no leash jerking on choke chains or collars, and absolutely no electricity! Each training opportunity is to be enjoyed and positive with rewards for jobs well done.

Training Neapolitan Mastiffs with head collars

Dragging the lead is one of the few displeasing tasks of bringing up a new Neapolitan Mastiff puppy. Using a head collar for Neapolitan Mastiff training has become very popular in the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the usual training collar. Although quite simple to utilize, it is imperative that head collars are fit properly and your Neapolitan Mastiff correctly introduced to the collar. Head collars are pretty much more simple to use than an usual training collar. Head collars are very effective when controlling Neapolitan Mastiffs in difficult situations.

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