Pawsitive Solutions Dog Training Services

 

 

Mashpee, MA
ph: (508) 539-9783

So you want to be a Dog Trainer

Being a trainer involves more than just going out there and teaching a dog to Sit, Stay and Come.

It means knowing how that dog learns, reading their signals through body language and being able to communicate in a way they understand what is expected of them.

It also means you you are willing to commit to a Lifetime of learning and updating your skills as a trainer.

It means you are there for the benefit of the dog and its wellbeing as well as the owners.

It means you need to be patient with both dogs and owners.

 

It means helping and coaching owners to learn as well so they can continue with their dogs training when you are not there.

It means being creative in your approach, What works for one dog may not for another. Each dog must be evaluated an indivialized to meet their training needs.

It means being open to Idea's and coming up with ways to make training a fun and positive experience for both owner and dog while working to get the end result you seek.

Games and fun go together with training it is a part of a dogs training.

 

These are just a few things that need to be considered when thinking about a career in dog training. There are many more.

One Important thing is you must love what you do !

Remember when you choose to train dogs, You become an educator as well as a trainer.

Its as much about the owners as it is about the dogs.

An owner can acually be rewarding a behavior they consider to be a problem without even knowing they are doing so. So a trainer needs to educate as well as train. A lot of unwanted behaviors are acually caused by this factor.

There are also many other factors , Abuse, breeding, trama, just to name a few.

To be a good trainer you should start with a good knowlege of what a dogs about. The how's where's and why's of a dog.

Mashpee, MA
ph: (508) 539-9783