With so many guys marketing in the field of professional dog training today, trying to determine who’s really best to train your Basenji can be confusing. What to consider for when deciding on a trainer to help you with training your Basenji:
How to Find a Trainer For Your Basenji: Six Things to Look For
- 1) A pristine reputation, ask around and get recommendations from your doctor, other Basenji 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 Basenjis.
- 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 Basenji’s well being.
- 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.
Basic Basenji Obedience Tips
Training has to be a positive and rewarding situation for both you and the Basenji. If you’re not in the right mood for training, do not even start. Always treat the Basenji for listening to your commands to the letter! A reward is anything that your Basenji desires and is happy to earn. Food is the usual prize but other treats could be verbal praise and playthings. Many brief sessions are much more effective than 1 long one. Training mustn’t involve any degrading components or punishment. There should be no shouting, no hitting or smacking, no leash yanking on training chains or collars, and absolutely no electricity! Every single training opportunity needs to be pleasant and reinforcing with praise for jobs well done.
Training Basenjis with head collars
Yanking the leash is one of the few negative tasks of bringing up a new Basenji puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Basenji training has become standard during the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the standard training collar. Though it’s quite easy to use, it’s important that head collars are fit correctly and your Basenji systematically introduced to the collar. Head collars are pretty much more simple to use than a regular training collar. Head collars are very effective when guiding Basenjis in difficult situations.
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