Dog Health Questions: TOP TEN REASONS TO HAVE YOUR DOG PROFESSIONALLY TRAINED?

Just looking for reasons to have you dog trained by a professional! Any input would be great!

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Recommended Answer:
I agree. You may very well want to attend a professional training class but go with your dog - you may need "training" as much as he does. We need to learn how to make our dogs mind, how to give commands and how to correct bad behavior. The training is as much for you as it is for the dog so you can work as a team.

The Praise and Reward Dog Training Method

• 1- trainers are EXPERTS in dog behavior and training
  2- you're not
  3 - dogs need structure in their everyday lives or else they get bored, destructive, and bratty
  4- you will learn how to be the alpha
  6- it will keep you safe (if your dog becomes aggressive or is just too rough of a player or gets in a dogfight)
  7 - it will keep other dogs safe through #9 and teaches
  8 - good manners
  9 - socialization
  10- it will keep your dog safe (if your dog chases a squirrel out into the street and you can't call it back...)


• You will want a professional trainer. However, he'll be training you, not your dog. Take a class or organize private training sessions. Leaving someone else to train your dog is not very helpful if your dog still has no respect for you and blows you off (and I say this as a cookie trainer!) Also, you never know what's going on when you're not there. There have been horror stories of dogs doing board-and-trains dying while there, being neglected or abused, or physically and emotionally damaging "methods" being used for quick compliance. These programs are often ridiculously expensive as well.
  
  If you don't have an hour broken up over the day to train with your dog, you don't have time for a dog.


• I believe in hiring a professional trainer to train ME, not the dog. Training is for me to understand the methods and ways to best work with my dog or pup. I don't know if that counts as the dog being professionally trained, but I don't see it that way. I train the dog, the professional trains me.
  
  An example is my agility classes I take with one dog. After a year, my dog knows the equipment, no problem. I am the one getting the training so I know how to move on course and direct her.


• reason you don't - he learns to "work" for the pro not nessarly for you
  only reason I can think for if you honestly can't get 1 hr once a week to attend class (then do you have time for dog at all?
  you working with dog in a class is superior


• Ummmmm........He would get well trained...maybe.
  Personally, training your dog is one of the funnest parts of getting a dog in the first place.
  I would never get my dog professionally trained even if it was free.


• We attempted to have our dog professionally trained, but all the trainers gave up.
  The dog we have sent them all packing.


• Here's two.
  
  1. To keep you out of jail.
  2. To keep your dog out of the pet cemetery.