Miniature Schnauzer Training Requirements
Training your Miniature Schnauzer from a young age is critical, they are very intelligent pups that will train their owner if the opportunity presents and the end result of this is often undesirable.
Effective training involves:
- Understanding how the Miniature Schnauzer thinks and what ‘drives’ them ie what their instinctive behaviours are, especially particular to their breed.
- Learning to engage their brain to listen to their owner’s voice rather than to their inner voice which drives their impulsive and often overstimulated behaviour.
- Clear, consistent and effective communication that the dog understands. A pet dog does not need to know 20 or even 10 commands, it can know 4 or 5 that will serve it well for it’s entire life.
- Teaching them how to relax in the home from a young age
- Commitment to spending the time to learn how to train your Miniature Schnauzer to be the best version of itself. There is a saying, ‘every interaction that you have with your dog is either training it, or untraining it’. Understanding what that looks like can be life changing for your relationship with your dog.
- Understanding that rules and guidance are critical for all pups and dogs to learn to live in our world well. We don’t leave children to bring themselves up living by their own rules, that would be chaotic - it is no different with dogs.
An improperly trained Miniature Schnauzer will be very vocal, highly impulsive and over-excitable when taken on walks and will often lunge and pull hard on the lead.
A properly trained Miniature Schnauzer is a delight to take out socially, they will walk politely on the lead, calmly meet other dogs and people and be happy to remain with their owner at all times. They are able to be taken to cafes, or into shops or hospitals with highly reliable public access skills.
We can help families to guide their puppy to be that wonderful and delightful dog to take everywhere easily.
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Our current litters and waiting list are on our Miniature Schnauzer puppies for sale page.