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Even if you don’t apprentice with someone, finding a mentor can give your emerging training career a boost. A mentor can help when you need advice about dealing with clients or working with tricky dogs, or when you simply seek answers to business-related questions. A good mentor can be your best source of practical information. Look for someone who isn’t devoted to a single method of training. The best teachers are those who recognize that there’s more than one way to teach people and dogs and who are always seeking out new information and techniques.

Other mentors, in a sense, are the dogs. Whether you earn a college degree, attend a training school, or apprentice with an experienced trainer, you should seek out as many opportunities as possible to work with a variety of dog breeds and mixes. Just because you can train a Golden Retriever doesn’t mean that you can train a Greyhound or a Jack Russell Terrier. All breeds, individuals within breeds, and mixed-breed dogs have their own quirks and will often require individualized techniques.