How to Find the Right Trainer for a Chinese Crested Dog

How to Find a Trainer For Your Chinese Crested Dog: Six Things to Look For

• 1) A pristine reputation, inquire and get recommendations from your veterinarian, other Chinese Crested Dog 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 Chinese Crested Dogs.
• 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 Chinese Crested Dog’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Basic Chinese Crested Dog Obedience Tips

Training must be a positive and enjoyable situation for both you and your Chinese Crested Dog. If you’re not in the best mindset for training, don’t even think of beginning. Always reward your Chinese Crested Dog for obeying your commands expeditiously! A reward is anything that your Chinese Crested Dog wants and is willing to work for. Snacks are an obvious prize but other treats could be verbalized admiration and toys. Many shorter sessions are demonstrated to be better than 1 long one. Training should not involve any negative comments or consequences. There should be no shouting, no hitting or smacking, no chain jerking on choke leashes or collars, and absolutely no electric shocking! Each training opportunity must be enjoyable and confidence-building with treats for a job well done.

Training Chinese Crested Dogs with head collars

Dragging the leash is one of the few unpleasant experiences of bringing up a new Chinese Crested Dog puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Chinese Crested Dog training has become standard during the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the regular training collar. While very simple to use, it is vital that head collars are fit correctly and your Chinese Crested Dog correctly introduced to the collar. Head collars are usually more simple to use than a typical training collar. Head collars are quite effective when training Chinese Crested Dogs in difficult situations.

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