With so many folks marketing in the field of professional dog training today, trying to determine who’s actually qualified to care for your Pointer can be tiresome. What to look for when picking a trainer to help you with training your Pointer:
How to Find a Trainer For Your Pointer: What to Look For
- 1) A great reputation, inquire and obtain recommendations from your vet, other Pointer 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 Pointers.
- 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 Pointer’s well being.
- 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.
Standard Pointer Obedience Tips
Training must be a pleasant and enjoyable situation for both you and your Pointer. If you are not in the right mood for training, do not even begin. Always treat your Pointer for heeding your commands to the tee! A reward is anything that your Pointer desires and is willing to work for. Edible treats are a great prize but other rewards could be verbal admiration and playthings. Many shorter sessions are typically more effective than a long one. Training mustn’t contain any degrading comments or consequences. There should be no shouting, no smacking or hitting, no leash yanking on training chains or collars, and absolutely no electric fences! Every single training session needs to be enjoyable and confidence-building with rewards for jobs well done.
Training Pointers with head collars
Yanking the leash is one of the few displeasing requirements of bringing up a new Pointer puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Pointer training has become very popular in the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some benefits over the standard training collar. Even though it is quite simple to utilize, it is vital that head collars are fit properly and your Pointer systematically introduced to the collar. Head collars are generally more easy to use than a regular training collar. Head collars are quite effective when controlling Pointers in tricky situations.
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