How to Find the Right Trainer for Your Australian Shepherd

How to Find a Trainer For Your Australian Shepherd: Six Things to Look For

• 1) A respected reputation, ask around and obtain insight from your animal doctor, other Australian Shepherd 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 Australian Shepherds.
• 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 Australian Shepherd’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

General Australian Shepherd Obedience Tips

Training must be a pleasant and rewarding experience for both you and the Australian Shepherd. If you’re not in the right mood for training, don’t even think of beginning. Always treat the Australian Shepherd for heeding your commands to the letter! A prize is anything that your Australian Shepherd wants and is happy to earn. Edible treats are the expected prize but other rewards could be verbal commendation and playthings. Many shorter training sessions are typically better than one long one. Training shouldn’t involve any negative comments or consequences. There should be no shouting, no smacking or hitting, no chain yanking on choke leashes or collars, and absolutely no electric fences! Every single training session needs to be enjoyable and confidence-building with prizes for each job well done.

Training Australian Shepherds with head collars

Pulling on the leash is one of the few displeasing requirements of training a new Australian Shepherd puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Australian Shepherd training has become standard throughout the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some unique advantages over the usual training collar. While quite easy to utilize, it is important that head collars are fit correctly and your Australian Shepherd gradually introduced to the collar. Head collars are typically more simple to use than a standard training collar. Head collars are very effective when guiding Australian Shepherds in difficult situations.

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