This is such an exciting time and critical time in your new pups life. Getting things right from the start will help your pup develop into a wonderful companion and help to reduce or avoid many of the common problems people encounter. 

Specifically for people & their puppies from 8 weeks to 16 weeks of age that aren't able to attend a puppy class we can conduct lessons in your home (and out and about once fully vaccinated) to ensure you all get off to a great start in your puppy's learning journey.

To enable your puppy to be the best dog he or she can be there are some critical timelines in their early development:

• Socialisation with People -by 12 weeks of age - The Most Urgent Priority
• Learning Bite Inhibition (soft mouth)- by 18 weeks of age - The Most Important Priority (people & dogs)
• Preventing Adolescent Problems —by five months of age - The Most Enjoyable Priority

Puppy training overview

Lessons are normally conducted weekly or fortnightly to ensure smooth progress in your puppy's development & all training is based on positive reinforcement, and conducted off lead (except when learning loose lead walking) & we will be introducing you puppy to lots of different things including:

• Learning basic manners and helping you to put into place ‘household etiquette' such as
  • going to lay quietly on bed/quiet area,
  • greeting people nicely (not jumping up),
  • toilet training,
  • appropriate chew toys,
  • take it /thank you (lerning to happily release items from oys, food, shoes, clothes and so on & to avoid resource guarding of valued things),
  • soft mouth (developing bite inhibition)
• enrichment strategies to simulate their minds and bodies and avoid ‘owner absent problems’ such as excessive barking, destruction etc
• introduction to loose leash walking,
• body conditioning (familiarity with touch and collar)
• ‘strange things’- different surfaces, objects, on, off/over under etc and of course lots handling by people and introduction to unfamiliar appropriate dogs.
• Learning with distraction (other dogs and people)

Puppy training is conducted in your home subject to vaccination protocols.