Positively Pets

Was there too much time spent on certain dogs?  “Only on mine!  But no, not really.”  What did you originally want from the course? “How to put into practice what I’d learnt about dog training from books”  Did you get it?  “Very much and thank you.” Customer feedback.

All puppies start under 18 weeks of age

All classes use clicker training and clickers are provided.

Early socialisation vastly increases a puppy’s chances of being a friendly and controllable adult.

Puppy Class helps puppy learn his lessons against a background of contact with friendly people and puppies in a safe environment. 

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Puppy is our most popular class.  A specially designed infant school for puppies during their rapid learning stage of development. 

Recall: We teach pups to come to you in the park and have their lead attached.  We're not fussed if they sit straight in front of you or not.

Lead: We aren't fussed if they sit straight at heel or not.  We do want them to walk without pulling and pay attention to you.

General control: Sit, stand, down positions.  Puppy health check.  "Leave it!"  Not jumping up on people/other dogs.  Pay attention and listen to you.

Social skills (with dogs): Pups get to play off-lead with each other in a safe and supervised setting.  We don't want them to learn to enjoy dog company more than your company, so we do train them when they're loose.  We want shy dogs to gain confidence and bolder pups to learn to control themselves so we balance games carefully so pups learn the right social attitude in class.

Social skills (with people): Everybody gets to handle the other pups in class.  For example: we do mock-up health examinations where pups are checked by other class members, we play 'pass the puppy', we practise polite greetings of strangers, we play swap-pups-quickest-sit during party week.  

Bookings can be made well in advance of your puppy being able to come to class.  Pups who are too young to come to the first class can send their owners along without them for the first week and come along themselves the second week.

Puppy Class is great fun!  All the pups are very young and you will get a chance to see your new addition mixing with others of the same age, not to mention being able to play with the other pups yourself.

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Over 18 weeks old?  Go to:  Companion Class