How to Find the Right Trainer for Your Flat-Coated Retriever

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

• 1) A good reputation, ask around and obtain advice from your animal doctor, other Flat-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 Flat-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 Flat-Coated Retriever’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Standard Flat-Coated Retriever Obedience Tips

Training should be a pleasant and enjoyable situation for both you and the Flat-Coated Retriever. If you’re not in the right mood for training, do not even think of beginning. Always reward the Flat-Coated Retriever for obeying your commands precisely! A prize is anything that your Flat-Coated Retriever wants and is willing to earn. Snacks are the expected prize but other prizes could be verbalized admiration and toys. Several brief sessions are typically more effective than a single long one. Training mustn’t involve any negative comments or consequences. There should be no yelling, no smacking or hitting, no chain jerking on training leashes or collars, and absolutely no electricity! Every single training session is to be enjoyable and positive with praise for a job well done.

Training Flat-Coated Retrievers with head collars

Yanking the lead is one of the few negative experiences of bringing up a new Flat-Coated Retriever puppy. Using a head collar for Flat-Coated Retriever training has become standard during the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some benefits over the regular training collar. Though it’s quite easy to use, it’s important that head collars are fit properly and your Flat-Coated Retriever gradually introduced to the collar. Head collars are pretty much more intuitive to use than a standard training collar. Head collars are quite effective when training Flat-Coated Retrievers in difficult situations.

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