How to Find the Right Person to Train Your Miniature American Shepherd

How to Find a Trainer For Your Miniature American Shepherd: Six Things to Look For

• 1) A pristine reputation, ask around and get suggestions from your animal doctor, other Miniature American Shepherd 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 Miniature American Shepherds.
• 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 Miniature American Shepherd’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Standard Miniature American Shepherd Obedience Tips

Training needs to be a positive and rewarding experience for both you and your Miniature American Shepherd. If you are not in the right mood for training, don’t even start. Always treat your Miniature American Shepherd for heeding your orders precisely! A treat is anything that your Miniature American Shepherd wants and is willing to earn. Food is the usual reward but other prizes could be verbalized praise and toys. Many brief sessions are much better than a long one. Training mustn’t contain any degrading components or consequences. There should be no yelling, no smacking or hitting, no leash jerking on training leashes or collars, and absolutely no electricity! Each training opportunity should be enjoyed and reinforcing with prizes for jobs well done.

Training Miniature American Shepherds with head collars

Pulling on the leash is one of the few unpleasant jobs of training a new Miniature American Shepherd puppy. Using a head collar for Miniature American Shepherd training has become very popular throughout the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the traditional training collar. Although very easy to use, it is imperative that head collars are fit properly and your Miniature American Shepherd correctly introduced to the collar. Head collars are usually more simple to use than an usual training collar. Head collars are quite effective when controlling Miniature American Shepherds in tricky situations.

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