With so many folks marketing in the field of professional dog training today, finding out who’s truly best qualified to look after your Talbot can be astonishing. What to examine for when picking a trainer to help you with training your Talbot:
How to Find a Trainer For Your Talbot: Six Things to Look For
- 1) A stellar reputation, ask around and obtain insight from your animal doctor, other Talbot 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 Talbots.
- 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 Talbot’s well being.
- 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.
Basic Talbot Obedience Tips
Training should be a pleasant and enjoyable situation for both you and your Talbot. If you’re not in the right mindset for training, do not even think of starting. Always commend the Talbot for heeding your commands to the letter! A reward is anything that your Talbot desires and is willing to work for. Food is the usual prize but different rewards could be verbalized commendation and playthings. Multiple shorter sessions are much better than 1 long one. Training shouldn’t involve any negative components or consequences. There should be no shouting, no hitting or smacking, no chain jerking on choke chains or collars, and absolutely no electricity! Every single training session needs to be pleasant and reinforcing with praise for a job well done.
Training Talbots with head collars
Pulling on the lead is one of the few unpleasant tasks of raising a new Talbot puppy. Using a head collar for Talbot training has become very popular over the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some benefits over the traditional training collar. While quite simple to use, it is important that head collars are fit correctly and your Talbot gradually introduced to the collar. Head collars are typically more intuitive to use than a standard training collar. Head collars are quite powerful when guiding Talbots in tricky situations.
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