Puppy School

Puppy training classes in Melbourne's West designed to provide you with all the knowledge required to raise a puppy.

We have designed a very educational and fun puppy training program that provides the skills all new puppy parents require to ensure their pup has the best start in life. Our aim is to establish the basis for a confident, well adjusted, well socialised, and calm dog.

Our puppy training classes promote a connection between you and your puppy by focusing on building a vocabulary through training exercises. We only use force free training methods that will strengthen the connection you create with your puppy. It is very important to start developing a special bond with your puppy from the very beginning of their life with you.

We do not teach methods that include punishment in our puppy school. These methods are outdated and unnecessary and only damage the relationship you have with your puppy.

In each of our lessons you will learn how to teach your puppy foundation exercises. These are basic exercises that can be built on as your puppy grows. These skills are taught as the first steps to achieving general manners. Our focus is setting your puppy up to succeed within your home environment and beyond.

Puppy School Program Details

• Our Puppy Program runs for 6 weeks.
• Week one is a theory lesson and is dog free. This lesson runs for approximately 90mins.
• The following five lessons run for 60mins. They include 30mins of structured training and 30mins of play time.
• Classes are conducted on weeknights at 7pm.
• Prior to booking with us, ensure your puppy is between 8-16 weeks of age when the course begins.

Puppy Training Information

Puppy Training Information

Theory class is a puppy free lesson. This gives us the opportunity to welcome you to the venue and talk about all thing’s puppy.

At the end of this lesson, we leave you with some homework, preparing you for your first class with your puppy.

Weeks Two – Six – Practical lessons

Training helps bridge the gap in communication that we have with our puppies and provides your puppy with words that they associate with actions. Teaching your puppy verbal and visual cues will help you guide and instruct your puppy in everyday real- life situations.

Training skills include but are not limited to –

• Focus – the cue your puppy learns to look at you. Used to avoid distractions and prevent unwanted behaviours.
• Go to your bed and settle – teaches your puppy where their safe place is to rest and promotes independence.
• Sit, drop and stand – the cues to either remain stationary, to relax, to prevent problem behaviours and to be examined or groomed.
• Stay and Wait – the cue for stillness, safety, and calm.
• Leave it – teaches puppies to not touch what is unsafe or unnecessary.
• Swap – teaches puppies to exchange high value items, preventing resource guarding.