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For your needs, I would recommend that you participate in your local kennel club. Good clubs offer training sessions and classes.
The classes are geared to all levels of dog management.
On this page, you can find your local club if you are in USA or Canada>
http://www.netpets.org/dogs/dogclub.html
If you contact them and explain your needs, you are likely to get help.
You can also look up 'dog trainer' in your yellow pages. Just be CERTAIN to get references. Anyone can talk a good jargon, without producing the results you seek.
If you have a specific issue, there are many pros here, as you can see, and you may get the answers you need to help..But, you gotta be thick skinned, as you are likely to also get poor, if not rude, advice.
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- Those certificates are not worth the paper on which they are written. The best and most respected credentials are those created by the titles you have earned with your dogs. You can't be an efficient, competent dog trainer if you have not trained dogs to obedience titles. You need to have worked with and put titles on several different breeds and not just a CD title. Once you have earned UD titles and OTCH titles on several dogs of a variety of breeds, then you will have the credentials to begin working with a training group as an assistant to learn how to be a trainer.
Buying into those dog training certificate groups will just be a way of wasting your money and getting a worthless piece of paper to put on your wall. - Most of the so called certifications for dog trainers are not worth the paper they are printed on.
When looking for a trainer to work with I look for titles their dogs have earned. I want to see end results.
I also want to interact with their dogs and see how they are behaved.
Then I want to work with them once and see if their methods fit my dogs personality and how well they fit my personality.
You need to have someone who you trust and feel comfortable working with. Someone whose methods you are comfortable using to train your dog on your own.
If you have a local all breed kennel club in your area that would be the best place to start. They will have many people who should be able to point you in the right direction. They will have people who work in many different areas of training. Field hunting, obedience, agility, and the like. One of them should be able to help you get started.
Good luck in your search. - None of them.
Years of experience and accomplishments with their own dogs make the trainer - not "certification".
ADD: I understand that you're only looking for pet dog training...but I stand by my answer. I'd still want someone with lots of experience helping me train my pet...and what they do with their own dogs is a good indication of how good they are at training.
Even if you're just looking for someone to teach you the basics...wouldn't you still want someone who knows what they're talking about? - I agree, titles will prove a well trained dog, the more the better, and the more advanced. Anyway, why would you search that, it could be copied and printed for ANYONE.
- There are ************NONE*************!!!!!!
No such thing exists!!!
Anybody can print out a piece of paper that says *any* old lie.
REAL trainers prove themselves w/all the TITLES they put on dogs over the decades!!!!
**TITLES ARE THE ONLY PROOF***!!!!
PERIOD-no reprieve, no excuses....PROVE IT! - Dog trainers are not certified, their dogs either win or they don't.
Here is an example of a trainer that wins once in a while (wink)
http://www.totalretriever.com/nationalar… - Canine Good Citizen is the gold standard.
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