How to Find the Right Trainer for Your Boerboel

How to Find a Trainer For Your Boerboel: Six Things to Look For

• 1) A pristine reputation, ask around and get suggestions from your vet, other Boerboel 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 Boerboels.
• 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 Boerboel’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Basic Boerboel Obedience Tips

Training must be a positive and rewarding experience for both you and the Boerboel. If you are not in the right mood for training, don’t even think of starting. Always reward your Boerboel for heeding your orders to the tee! A reward is anything that your Boerboel wants and is happy to work for. Food is the typical reward but different rewards could be verbalized praise and toys. Multiple brief training sessions are typically better than one 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 leashes or collars, and absolutely no electric shocking! Every single training session must be enjoyable and positive with prizes for jobs well done.

Training Boerboels with head collars

Yanking the lead is one of the few unpleasant experiences of bringing up a new Boerboel puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Boerboel training has become standard in the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the usual training collar. While very easy to use, it is vital that head collars are fitted correctly and your Boerboel correctly introduced to the collar. Head collars are typically more easy to use than a regular training collar. Head collars are quite powerful when guiding Boerboels in tricky situations.

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