How to Find the Right Trainer for Your Curly Coated Retriever

How to Find a Trainer For Your Curly Coated Retriever: What to Look For

• 1) A stellar reputation, ask around and obtain recommendations from the doctor, other Curly Coated Retriever 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 Curly Coated Retrievers.
• 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 Curly Coated Retriever’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Basic Curly Coated Retriever Obedience Tips

Training has to be a pleasant and rewarding experience for both you and your Curly Coated Retriever. If you’re not in the best mood for training, don’t even think of beginning. Always commend the Curly Coated Retriever for heeding your commands expeditiously! A prize is anything that your Curly Coated Retriever desires and is willing to work for. Edible treats are an obvious reward but different prizes could be verbal praise and playthings. Several brief training sessions are demonstrated to be more effective than 1 long one. Training must not contain any degrading comments or consequences. There should be no yelling, no hitting or smacking, no leash jerking on choke chains or collars, and absolutely no electric fences! Every training opportunity must be enjoyable and positive with prizes for jobs well done.

Training Curly Coated Retrievers with head collars

Dragging the lead is one of the few unpleasant jobs of training a new Curly Coated Retriever puppy. Using a head collar for Curly Coated Retriever training has become standard over the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the traditional training collar. While very simple to utilize, it is crucial that head collars are fitted correctly and your Curly Coated Retriever correctly introduced to the collar. Head collars are usually more intuitive to use than a typical training collar. Head collars are quite powerful when controlling Curly Coated Retrievers in difficult situations.

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