TRAINING SERVICES
Puppy School is a great way to start your training journey, packed full of essential information and practical activities.
Puppies can start at 10 weeks / 2 weeks after their first vaccinations. I also welcome older puppies and dogs who have no training experience making Puppy School ideal for rescues too.
Puppy School is a 6 week course, each weekly session lasting 60 minutes supported by comprehensive notes, videos and general advice as appropriate through a group What's App.
Classes are kept to a maximum of 4 puppies to allow individual attention for all and a relaxed, friendly atmosphere.
Two adults are more than welcome and children who would like to take part in the training are also welcome.
Puppy School introduces foundations, emphasising key behaviours and life skills
as well as building and nurturing confidence and resilience.
Foundations are essential - good training is always the basics done well.
Training and learning is lifelong, so it's always important to look ahead to what's next.
See below for more details on Training Club, Puppy Club, and Canines, Confidence & Calm: Socialisation & Social Meets.
Providing you with all the knowledge & understanding; support & advice; activities, exercises & challenges; fun & laughter
to successfully navigate puppyhood from those very first few days through adolescence and beyond...
Setting you and puppy up for success for life!
Training Club
Training Club is the brand new accessible, flexible way to train. It's open to all puppies/dogs from 24 weeks with a maximum of 4 per session to ensure individual attention for all. Sessions are booked individually with no limit to the number of sessions - come every week, fortnightly, make your own little block or come whenever you need a little extra support. Sessions are available on different days at different times every week because life doesn't always guarantee you can be available at the same time every week. Sessions cannot be cancelled but they can be rescheduled up to 48 hours before, in the event that the unexpected happens. Every session is structured to foster achievable progress at the pace that's right for you and your puppy/dog. Criteria can be raised or lowered. Good training is founded on recall, loose lead walking, wait/stay and settle underpinned by duration, distance and distraction and in the first 2-3 years of puppy's life, these need to be revisited and fine-tuned as puppy undergoes various developmental stages & changes. Every session will be focused on building & developing skills you need for everyday life through a wide range of activities & games. Each week, the content of the sessions will change so if you want to come every week on a rolling basis or block book, you will have plenty of opportunities to learn new skills & strategies. I'm passionate about the importance of meeting our puppies physical, mental & emotional needs and will often take inspiration from the wonderful world of scent, showing you how to enrich your puppy/dog's life by employing their incredible noses. I'll also incorporate the exciting and challenging, games-filled gundog world and introduce activities designed to to explore and harness natural talents, traits, characteristics and breed-specific instincts. A great way to enable you and your puppy/dog to learn and have fun, develop your relationship, build connection and bond. Gundog and scent activities not only channel your dogs genetic superpowers, they meet their needs, providing essential physical and mental stimulation and enrichment and go a long way towards addressing many of the common issues that owners find themselves facing, especially in those first few years.
Canines, Confidence & Calm:
Socialisation &
Social Meets
"It all goes really well until we see a distraction..." Regular sessions enabling you to practice your skills in the presence of other dogs within a range of carefully chosen environments. Introducing skills, developing skills, learning true, appropriate socialisation. Supporting both you and your puppy/dog in situations where overexcitement, frustration, anxiety, uncertainty or simple lack of opportunity may be stopping you both from living your best lives possible. An opportunity to meet a range of other puppies/dogs and their owners. Make it purely social, have fun on a sniffari, try out some parkour, engage in a little guided free play, manage those longlines, chill out together... Friendly, fun and always non-judgemental.
