Responsibilities of Trainer
My responsibilities include:
- Provide an initial consultation to assess your dog’s current level of knowledge and skills of basic commands; identify any behavior problems that need addressing; and help you to develop a goals plan.
- Provide throughout the training process ongoing assessment of your dog’s progress.
- Demonstrate the use of verbal cues, hand signals, clicker training and positive reinforcement.
- Teach you effective training and handling techniques through instruction, modeling, helpful handouts and homework assignments.
- Provide you with homework assignments to do between sessions to enhance your dog’s progress and your training skills.
- Promote training in locations where your dog will be in contact with other dogs and people; encourage training during activities with your dog such as when taking walks.
- Discuss the importance of socialization and how to enhance this process for your dog.
- Address any negative behaviors that your dog is displaying and develop effective strategies to resolve them.
- Help you and your family to be consistent in ways of interacting with your dog, using the same commands and training techniques, and the same strategies for addressing problem behaviors.
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Focus on using positive reinforcement techniques.
- Effectively train you to the extent that when the professional training process is over with, you will be able to continue the training and manage your dog's behavior.