How To Choose a Professional Dog
Trainer
1.) Versatility— A good dog trainer
will use techniques and training styles which are compatible with your
dog’s temperament. Every dog is different, and some dogs respond
better to certain approaches. What works for a Rottweiler won’t
necessarily work for a Poodle.
2.) Experience— I know people who have been driving an automobile
for 30 years and still can’t parallel park! And dog training is
the same way! Don’t measure a dog trainer’s skill by his
number of years in the profession. Instead, judge a trainer by what he
has done in the ‘Dog World,’ rather than how long he has
been doing it.
3.) Cost— When you pay for training, make sure you are paying for
results... not for a specified number of hours or sessions. Good dog
trainers know that every dog (and owner) is different. Some need more
time to learn than others.
4.) Avoid Group Classes— I’ve never seen a dog that is 100%
reliable come out of a group class. When professional dog trainers
train their own dogs, they never do it in a group setting. It’s
always one-on-one. There are just too many distractions for a new dog
in a group class.
5.) How Much Should You Expect To Pay For a Good Dog Training Program:
Expect to pay between $400 and $1200. A good dog trainer will sometimes
have a waiting list of dog owners who want to work with him. Your goal
should be to work with the best dog trainer you can find, not to haggle
over the price. And in virtually all cases that we’ve seen, the
dog trainers who are charging bargain basement prices are the ones who
you probably don’t want to be working with in the first place.
It’s better to spend your money intelligently on a top-notch dog
training program in the first place, than to waste your money chasing a
bargain, and then have to pay more money for a good dog trainer
somewhere down the line.
6.) Ask for a Free Consultation: You don’t need to pay a dog
trainer to take a look at your dog. This should be done for free. And
besides, you don’t want to pay money to meet a dog trainer, and
then have to decide whether you want to work with him!
7.) Should You Send Your Dog Away To Be Trained? No. The idea of doing
this is largely a scam predicated on kenneling the dog so that the dog
training company can charge you even more money. For example, as a
skilled dog trainer, I can train your dog, and get him responding in a
very impressive manner, in about two days. But when I give him back to
you, he’s going to say, "I’ve never had to do anything you
say before! Why should I start now?" It’s just like driving. I
can build you a fantastic sports car, but if you don’t learn how
to drive it, it won’t get you from point A to point B. You must
find a dog trainer who will teach YOU how to train YOUR DOG!
8.) Should You Have A Dog Trainer Come To Your Home? No. It’s
going to work much better if you learn to train your dog in a neutral
territory.
9.) Why You Should Avoid the big, chain pet store dog training
programs: Because in most cases, the dog trainers you’ll
encounter have only 2 to 3 months experience, and have been recruited
through a newspaper ad. Dog training is both an art and a science.
There is no way that you can become a professional dog trainer without
apprenticing with several experienced dog trainers, with varied
backgrounds, over an acceptable period of time. Stay away from the
large pet store dog training programs.
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