finding the right dog trainer?

"Certified" really means nothing if you don't like or agree with their methods, or if the methods they use don't suit your dog.

What I always do before signing up with any new trainer, is sit in on one of their classes with no dog. Watch them and their methods. Do they use the one-approach-fits-all approach or do they tailor their methods to what actually works with each dog? How much experience do they have and with what breeds?

With a husky, you'd ideally want a trainer with some experience with northern breeds. It seems there's a lot of trainers who have experience only with "traditional" obedience breeds and don't know or can't be bothered dealing with other breeds.

My dogs are obedience competitors and I'm very picky about choosing a trainer and even then, I only do what I feel is best for my dogs.

You can talk to your breeder or other husky owners in your area for recommendations, go to dog shows and talk to obedience competitors about which trainers they like. (And you don't need to compete with your dog to go to the best trainers.)

Hi, I understand that you are looking for some advice or resources to help fully train your dog or fix behavior problems. If a professional dog trainer is not an option at this time, or if you want to trt training your dog on your own (a great way to bond), I'd suggest you https://bitly.im/aNK6f

A friend recommened it to me a few years ago, and I was amazed how quickly it worked, which is why I recommend it to others. The dog training academy also has as an excellent home training course.

There is generally a license or some type of certification that verifies a person has completed "dog training school." I'm sure I'm not saying that right.

That said, even "Certified" trainers can turn out to be bad. I've had a terrible experience with a well known, renowned trainer in my area. He was even recommended by my Vet!

It's sometimes a Trial-and-Error type thing. You have to try around to see which one works best for you. Choose a trainer who uses the methods you prefer.

First, dog section regular, there is NO license or cert for ANY type of dog training. YOU can hang a sign up and claim to be one and no one can say anything about it.

Now, OP..I very seriously doubt that any trainer was charged with any abuse and went to prison, and if you have proof of this, I would LOVE to see it. What do you call abusive, what is cruel to you?

There is indeed a training method that works for all dogs world and breed wide and that method involves consequences, both positive and negative.

In my world that method of training is called NEPOPO and it simply makes the dog understand that if you do what I tell you when I tell you, good things happen to you. If you t or choose to ignore me, bad things happen to you.

What you must understand is that dogs work for ONE reason, ALL of them, to make their situation better and we help them do that by training them to understand that there WILL be consequences.

Finally, no,there are no licenses and no certs, only actual proof in the REAL world of what a trainer has accomplished. I have no idea where you live so I cannot suggest anyone. Hope I helped.

Go to your local dog classes without your dog and decide on a class that your want to enrol in.

Unfortunately "so called" dog trainers in the UK , don't need qualifications.

I am not qualified, however I have trained dogs forever and I don't charge. One of my pupils was so useless that I decided that I could not continue to help her.

A few weeks later she advertised that she was a qualified trainer and charged for her services.

Don't kid yourself that the dogs which were a year old were already trained. Dogs need to practise what they have been taught every day.

Some trainers and so called experts are USELESS.