The six week courses offer a comprehensive course to give you all of the skills and knowledge to set yourself and your dog up for a happy and fun life together.
Session one is via Zoom, as this is the session where we would previously sit and cover most of the theory side of things. We look at:
- Setting yourself and your dog up to succeed
- Exercise, play, rest, and arousal levels
- Play biting
- Toilet training
- Preventing separation anxiety
- Socialisation, habituation, and confidence building
- Your health and household activities
- Choosing the right equipment
- Nutrition and health
- Practicing calm and reinforcing good choices
- Being aware of not reinforcing "naughty" patterns
- Reinforcement and clicker training (clicker training is optional)
- Positions - sit, down, stand
- Self control around food
- Settle on a mat
Session two is in your garden and we look at:
- Self control - leaving an item
- Loose lead walking (the foundations)
- Recall games and whistle training
- Collar
- Checking in
- Release word
- Go to a place
Session three is also in your garden and we look at:
- Greeting behaviour
- Stay
- Wait - doors/gates/cars
- Self control - food bowl and toys
- Progressing previous skills
Session four is outside of your home and in your local area, with us covering:
- Loose lead walking - the next step
- Processing the world around him/her
- Distractions
- Reinforcing good choices
- Reinforcement type, delivery, and timing
- Previous skills
- Possibly some "puppy parkour" or a trick, depending on the puppy.
Session five is usually in a local park and we work on:
- Calmness
- Greeting other dogs and people, and getting permission to do so.
- Recall
- Scent games
- Puppy Parkour
- Previous skills
Our final session, session six, is usually in a local park and we conclude our training by working on:
- Anything that you feel needs extra work
- Ensuring that you are confident with how to progress skills going forward
- APDT Good Companion Puppy Award
Although there is a plan to each session, sometimes skills are covered in different weeks, as they come up, or we can add or remove things on a case to case basis.
You get a lot more content, personal to you, when training on a one to one basis, compared to when attending a group class situation.
Clients are also given access to a Google drive file with a lot of useful resources and are given a welcome pack with some treats, a toy, and a clicker to get you started.
We are able to work towards the APDT Good Companion Puppy Award, and you get a certificate upon passing.
All for only £245
There is an option to have sessions 2 and 3 via Zoom if you do not have a garden.
Please be aware that if local restrictions are put into force, meaning that in person training is not possible, or either side has to self isolate, then clients will be given the option of either having Zoom training sessions, or postponing until we can train in person again.
Mileage may be added depending on your location - please check before booking.
