How to Find the Right Trainer for a Bluetick Coonhound

How to Find a Trainer For Your Bluetick Coonhound: What to Look For

• 1) A great reputation, inquire and obtain insight from your veterinarian, other Bluetick Coonhound 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 Bluetick Coonhounds.
• 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 Bluetick Coonhound’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

General Bluetick Coonhound Obedience Tips

Training must be a pleasant and rewarding experience for both you and the Bluetick Coonhound. If you are not in the right mood for training, do not even think of beginning. Always commend your Bluetick Coonhound for listening to your commands precisely! A treat is anything that your Bluetick Coonhound wants and is willing to earn. Food is a great reward but other prizes could be verbal praise and playthings. Multiple brief sessions are usually more effective than a single long one. Training should not contain any degrading comments or punishment. There should be no yelling, no hitting or smacking, no leash jerking on choke leashes or collars, and absolutely no electric shocking! Every single training session needs to be enjoyed and reinforcing with treats for each job well done.

Training Bluetick Coonhounds with head collars

Dragging the lead is one of the few negative experiences of bringing up a new Bluetick Coonhound puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Bluetick Coonhound training has become very popular during the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some unique advantages over the standard training collar. Although very simple to utilize, it is crucial that head collars are fit properly and your Bluetick Coonhound gradually introduced to the collar. Head collars are generally more simple to use than an usual training collar. Head collars are very effective when guiding Bluetick Coonhounds in difficult situations.

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