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

Lessons can be conducted weekly or fortnightly to suit your individual needs & 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, not jumping up, toilet training, appropriate chew toys, 'off/take it’ (valued items such as toys or food),
• 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 as either a 4 lesson program conducted in home (due to vaccination protocols) or 6 lessons program including 2 out and about lessons once fully vaccinated