With so many people marketing in the field of professional dog training right now, trying to determine who’s truly best qualified to care for your Rat Terrier can be overwhelming. What to look for when selecting a professional to help you with training your Rat Terrier:
How to Find a Trainer For Your Rat Terrier: What to Look For
- 1) A pristine reputation, inquire and get advice from your doctor, other Rat Terrier 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 Rat Terriers.
- 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 Rat Terrier’s well being.
- 6) Memberships with reputable associations, organizations and training clubs.
Basic Rat Terrier Obedience Tips
Training needs to be a pleasant and enjoyable experience for both you and your Rat Terrier. If you’re not in the right mindset for training, do not even start. Always commend the Rat Terrier for heeding your orders to the letter! A reward is anything that your Rat Terrier desires and is willing to work for. Food is the typical reward but different prizes could be oral admiration and playthings. Several shorter training sessions are demonstrated to be more effective than a single long one. Training should not involve any negative components or consequences. There should be no shouting, no smacking or hitting, no chain yanking on training leashes or collars, and absolutely no electricity! Every training opportunity must be pleasant and reinforcing with prizes for jobs well done.
Training Rat Terriers with head collars
Pulling on the lead is one of the few negative requirements of raising a new Rat Terrier puppy. Utilizing a head collar for Rat Terrier training has become standard over the last decade. Training with a head collar does have some unique advantages over the regular training collar. While very easy to utilize, it’s crucial that head collars are fit correctly and your Rat Terrier properly introduced to the collar. Head collars are pretty much more simple to use than an usual training collar. Head collars are quite effective when guiding Rat Terriers in tricky situations.
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