How to Find the Right Trainer for Your Old Croatian Sighthound

How to Find a Trainer For Your Old Croatian Sighthound: What to Look For

• 1) A good reputation, inquire and get insight from your animal doctor, other Old Croatian Sighthound 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 Old Croatian Sighthounds.
• 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 Old Croatian Sighthound’s well being.
• 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.

Standard Old Croatian Sighthound Obedience Tips

Training needs to be a positive and enjoyable experience for both you and your Old Croatian Sighthound. If you are not in the right mindset for training, don’t even begin. Always commend your Old Croatian Sighthound for heeding your commands to the letter! A prize is anything that your Old Croatian Sighthound desires and is happy to work for. Edible treats are the usual reward but other rewards could be verbalized commendation and toys. Many brief sessions are demonstrated to be better than one long one. Training mustn’t involve any degrading components or consequences. There should be no yelling, no hitting or smacking, no chain jerking on choke chains or collars, and absolutely no electric fences! Each training session should be enjoyed and confidence-building with praise for jobs well done.

Training Old Croatian Sighthounds with head collars

Pulling on the leash is one of the few negative requirements of bringing up a new Old Croatian Sighthound puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Old Croatian Sighthound training has become very popular over the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some advantages over the traditional training collar. While very easy to utilize, it’s imperative that head collars are fit properly and your Old Croatian Sighthound systematically introduced to the collar. Head collars are generally more simple to use than a traditional training collar. Head collars are quite effective when guiding Old Croatian Sighthounds in tricky situations.

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