How To Choose a Good Dog Trainer for Your Family Pet

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Bringing home a new fur baby is exciting. Dogs need proper training to do what you wish and for their own well-being. But how do you choose a trainer among all the options? Trainers offer sessions with group dog training or on a one-on-one basis. Here are some tips to weed out bad trainers from the good ones.

Use Food

A trainer who uses food to train your dog is better suited to train your dog. Pronged collars, shock collars and other methods are not recommended for the dog’s well-being. Food allows trainers and owners to engage in positive reinforcement of good behavior. Food is the modern method to humanely and kindly train your dog.

Food Types

Hiding food in your hand is an easy way to have the food available when your dog performs as you would like. If you don’t want to have it in your hand, you can use a pouch full of treats clipped to your pants. Motivate them with a treat so the food feels like a reward for your dog. Packaged treats or cooked small pieces of meat are perfect motivators. Find one your dog prefers.

Positive Reinforcement

In group dog training, the dogs help reinforce positive behaviors if they are already trained. Group training helps the dogs see how they can also get a treat for their behavior. Quickly rewarding good behavior with food positively reinforces the training. Over time, the food can be phased out as the dog learns the good behavior. Positive reinforcement can also be used for fearful dogs who need help getting over a fear such as being groomed.


Choose group dog training or solo training for your pet that uses food. The positive reinforcement of the modern training technique helps your dog avoid fear inducing, negative reinforcement techniques used by other trainers. Your pet benefits from long-lasting results that make them a true companion for you to love and pet.