Puppies under 16 weeks
PROGRAM OPTIONS:
- Early Learning Program (5 weeks)
- Combination program: Early Learning + Basic Training (15 weeks)
- Development Program: Early Learning + Basic Training + 10 Casual Classes (25 weeks)
- The Whatever Dog Program: Early Learning Program + 2 x one hour Private Training + Confidence Building Course + Basic Program + Casual Classes + 2 more one hour Private Training (25 weeks)
Call us to learn more.
Puppies & dogs over 16 weeks
PROGRAM OPTIONS:
- Basic Training (10 weeks)
- Success program: Basic Training + 10 Casual Classes (20 weeks)
- The Whatever Dog Program: 2 x one hour Private Training + Confidence Building Course + Basic Program + Casual Classes + 2 more one hour Private Training (20 weeks)
Early Learning Program
Duration: 5 weeks, 45 minute classes
The primary objective of our Early Learning Program is to help create an emotionally stable puppy who is comfortable with new noises, people, object, dogs, handling, separation, vet and grooming visits.
Our Early Learning Program is different to your pet-shop puppy classes; we focus heavily on educating YOU on how to raise a confident and emotionally healthy puppy, giving you the tools to make this happen and supported by our qualified and engaging team of trainers.
A lot of other “puppy classes” are often a “free for all” where a lot of clients come to us after having negative experiences. We ensure you’re set up for success from the get go!
What you'll learn:
- Training techniques and use of daily food intake
- Toilet Training and preventing mistakes
- Biting, mouthing, and handling
- Jumping and managing arousal
- Emotional development and life exposure
- Recognising canine body language, and how to promote safe encounters with other dogs
- Training cues: come, sit, take, give, finish, up, off
- Appropriate socialisation and dog:dog interactions
- Facilitated by our qualified and engaging staff
- Training your puppy using Positive Reinforcement techniques and NO aversives or intimidation
- And much more!...
Locations
BASIC TRAINING PROGRAM
Duration: 10 weeks, 45 minute classes
Our Basic Training Program is conducted outside, teaching our dogs to be responsive under real life conditions.
We support you to ensure you understand your dogs developmental phases, individual needs, how to tolerate distractions and engage appropriately with other dogs.
What you'll learn:
- Learning Theory: how dogs learn and how to achieve the best response from your pet
- Managing inappropriate behaviours WITHOUT intimidation and aversives
- Reward marking and fun with food
- Luring, fading lures and teaching hand signals
- Teaching dogs to understand verbal cues and the training process
- Teaching your dogs to ‘think’, control their impulses and ignore life’s distractions
- Lowering arousal levels and learning to calm your dog
- Our secrets to the ‘whatever dog’
- Walk nicely on a lead
- Training a reliable recall with distractions
- Tricks and mini agility tasks
- Fun and useful cues and tricks such as beg, bow, up, off, recall, stay, wait, drop, eye contact, loose lead walking and finish cues
- All facilitated by our experienced, engaging and qualified trainers
Locations
OPEN / CASUAL CLASSES
Time: Saturdays - 4pm
Duration: 10 sessions - Purchase 10, Use & book in when you are available!
Our casual classes are purchased in a pack of ten sessions and are aimed at owners who have completed our Combination or Basic Program and wish to join our ‘whatever dog’ community or train therapy and assistance dogs.
These classes are conducted at 4pm Saturday afternoons and helps you refine your dog’s skills and keep socialising them appropriately.
Each week different exercises are practiced including the basic cues, trick training, socialisation and the recall, mini agility and everyday life skills such as desensitisation to handling for the vet clinic, noise, object and environmental desensitisation.
This is the perfect opportunity for our Therapy Dogs in training to work through their workbook prior to their test as well!
