How to Find the Right Trainer for a Catalan Sheepdog

How to Find a Trainer For Your Catalan Sheepdog: What to Look For

• 1) A great reputation, ask around and get suggestions from your animal doctor, other Catalan Sheepdog 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 Catalan Sheepdogs.
• 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 Catalan Sheepdog’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Standard Catalan Sheepdog Obedience Tips

Training should be a positive and rewarding situation for both you and the Catalan Sheepdog. If you are not in the right mood for training, don’t even begin. Always commend the Catalan Sheepdog for heeding your orders expeditiously! A treat is anything that your Catalan Sheepdog wants and is happy to earn. Snacks are the typical reward but different treats could be oral praise and playthings. Several brief sessions are usually better than a single long one. Training shouldn’t contain any degrading comments or punishment. There should be no shouting, no hitting or smacking, no chain yanking on training chains or collars, and absolutely no electric fences! Each training session must be enjoyable and confidence-building with prizes for jobs well done.

Training Catalan Sheepdogs with head collars

Yanking the lead is one of the few displeasing jobs of training a new Catalan Sheepdog puppy. Using a head collar for Catalan Sheepdog training has become very popular over the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some unique advantages over the regular training collar. Even though it is very easy to use, it’s imperative that head collars are fitted properly and your Catalan Sheepdog systematically introduced to the collar. Head collars are usually more easy to use than a traditional training collar. Head collars are very effective when controlling Catalan Sheepdogs in tricky situations.

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