With so many folks advertising in the industry of professional dog training right now, deciding who’s really qualified to train your Pumi can be tiresome. What to look for when deciding on a professional to help you with training your Pumi:
How to Find a Trainer For Your Pumi: What to Look For
- 1) A great reputation, ask around and obtain suggestions from the veterinarian, other Pumi 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 Pumis.
- 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 Pumi’s well being.
- 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.
Standard Pumi Obedience Tips
Training should be a pleasant and enjoyable situation for both you and the Pumi. If you’re not in the best mood for training, do not even think of beginning. Always treat your Pumi for heeding your orders promptly! A prize is anything that your Pumi desires and is willing to earn. Food is an obvious reward but other prizes could be oral praise and playthings. Multiple shorter training sessions are typically better than 1 long one. Training mustn’t contain any degrading components or punishment. There should be no yelling, no smacking or hitting, no chain yanking on choke leashes or collars, and absolutely no electric shocking! Each training session is to be enjoyed and positive with praise for each job well done.
Training Pumis with head collars
Yanking the leash is one of the few unpleasant jobs of training a new Pumi puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Pumi training has become very popular over the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some benefits over the traditional training collar. Though it’s quite simple to utilize, it is imperative that head collars are fit properly and your Pumi systematically introduced to the collar. Head collars are generally more simple to use than a standard training collar. Head collars are quite effective when training Pumis in difficult situations.
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