Choice of training optioNs 

  • Puppy Training Package
  • Basic Training Adolescent Level 1
  • Basic Training Adult Level 1
  • Advance Training Adult level 2 
  • Advance training Adult level 3
  • Pay as you go Consultation, Review  & Single Session
  • Single sessions 
One-to-One Dog and Puppy Training

Group classes can be useful for socialisation, practising around distractions and meeting other owners. However, some dogs and owners benefit from more personalised support.

In person training is tailored entirely to you , your dog and environment. Sessions can take place in your home or local outdoor area, allowing us to work on the challenges you experience in everyday life.

The pace, structure and training plan are designed around your dog’s needs, your lifestyle and your goals. This focused approach can help you make progress more quickly, build confidence and strengthen the bond with your dog.

Get in touch to discuss how one-to-one training could support you and your dog.
Examples of What Can Be Included in Your Package

✔️ Learn how to observe your dog’s behaviour clearly and identify what happens before and after it.
✔️ Learn how to interpret more reliably what your dog may be communicating and what the behaviour may be helping them to achieve.
✔️ Learn how to change the environment to set you and your dog up for success and reduce the need for unwanted behaviour.
✔️ Learn how to communicate clearly and effectively with your dog  including clear consistent cues . 

Your training plan will be based on the needs discussed during your consultation and the goals agreed for each area.

An important part of training is teaching your dog clear cues, A cue is something your dog can recognise, such as a word, hand signal, sound, scent, object or location. Through learning, it can signal that reinforcement is available for a particular behaviour.

Dogs also learn cues through everyday events, even when you have not intentionally trained them.
Some cues are easy for owners to recognise because the same behaviour follows them regularly. For example, picking up your keys or your dog’s lead may cue them to run to the door, even if they have only recently returned from a walk.
Other cues may be less obvious because the behaviour only occurs under certain conditions. Arriving at a familiar playing field may cue a dog to jump up at their owner for ball or tug play when they have not had an opportunity for outdoor play since the previous day, but not after an active morning.

Similarly, clipping on the lead or walking towards the park gate may cue lead biting when leaving would end access to movement, play or social interaction that is still valuable because the dog has not yet had enough opportunity for these activities.
The cue may be present on every occasion, but the behaviour is more likely when the outcome it has previously produced is more valuable to the dog at that time.

An important part of training is teaching your dog to respond reliably with the intended behaviour when a particular cue is given.

During training, words can be taught as cues that your dog associates with clear and consistent meanings.

Training helps your dog understand which behaviour is expected when that cue is given.If we look at words in your training, teaching your dog words that they can associate with clear and consistent meanings is key.
For instance if you always say  “bed” when you need  your dog to go to their bed, while always using  “OK” so you can let them know they are free to move.
The particular words you use are your choice. What matters is that each word is taught clearly and then used consistently for the same behaviour or situation. Over time, this gives you and your dog a shared vocabulary and makes communication clearer and easier for your dog to respond to in the way you want.

🐕‍🦺 Responding to their name
🐕‍🦺 Toileting on cue, such as when leaving the car or going into the garden
🐕‍🦺 Bed
🐕‍🦺 Get cosy — settling under a blanket or duvet
🐕‍🦺 OK — a release cue
🐕‍🦺 Sit, with or without a spoken cue
🐕‍🦺 Wait
🐕‍🦺 Leave — moving away from food, objects, people or dogs
🐕‍🦺 Going to work — helping your dog understand when they will be left at home
🐕‍🦺 Let me see — allowing you to examine them or asking them to give up an object
🐕‍🦺 Get it — beginning play or fetching a toy
🐕‍🦺 Take it — taking something gently
🐕‍🦺 Gentle — using a soft mouth during feeding or handling
🐕‍🦺 Touch — allowing paws, ears, mouth or other areas to be handled
🐕‍🦺 Love — calm stroking and cuddles
🐕‍🦺 Shush — becoming quiet after barking
🐕‍🦺 Get down — moving off furniture, people or other dogs
🐕‍🦺 Come
🐕‍🦺 This way
🐕‍🦺 Say hello — greeting people and dogs politely
🐕‍🦺 See the doggy — calmly noticing another dog
🐕‍🦺 Heel
🐕‍🦺 Easy — walking on a loose lead
🐕‍🦺 Go there
🐕‍🦺 Good boy or good girl — marking and reinforcing desired behaviour

You will learn the skills you need, based on what you want to achieve, what is appropriate for your dog and what you can realistically put into practice.