With so many people marketing in the industry of professional dog training today, deciding who’s truly best qualified to care for your Rough Collie can be confusing. What to look for when determining a trainer to help you with training your Rough Collie:
How to Find a Trainer For Your Rough Collie: What to Look For
- 1) A good reputation, inquire and get insight from the vet, other Rough Collie 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 Rough Collies.
- 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 Rough Collie’s well being.
- 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.
Basic Rough Collie Obedience Tips
Training should be a positive and rewarding situation for both you and your Rough Collie. If you are not in the right mood for training, do not even begin. Always reward the Rough Collie for heeding your orders exactly! A prize is anything that your Rough Collie wants and is willing to earn. Food is a great prize but other treats could be verbal commendation and toys. Several brief sessions are typically more effective than 1 long one. Training mustn’t involve any degrading components or consequences. There should be no yelling, no hitting or smacking, no chain yanking on choke leashes or collars, and absolutely no electricity! Every training opportunity needs to be pleasant and positive with praise for jobs well done.
Training Rough Collies with head collars
Dragging the leash is one of the few displeasing experiences of raising a new Rough Collie puppy. Using a head collar for Rough Collie training has become standard during the last few years. Training with a head collar does have some unique advantages over the usual training collar. Though it’s very easy to utilize, it’s imperative that head collars are fit properly and your Rough Collie systematically introduced to the collar. Head collars are pretty much more intuitive to use than an usual training collar. Head collars are quite powerful when controlling Rough Collies in tricky situations.
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