It has been proven beyond any doubt that the first few months of your dog’s life are the most important in its behavioural development. It is during this precious time up to about 16 weeks that your pup learns how to interact with the world around it, especially how to act appropriately with its own species (other dogs) and alien species (humans, other animals). Once these weeks are past you do not get a second chance, no matter how hard you work at it. It is therefore absolutely essential that you put in a lot of work to your puppy during these formative weeks.
Puppy training is an indispensable foundation for the rest of your dog’s life. We look at teaching you how to shape the behaviours that your puppy naturally offers, connection to you, reliance on you, looking to you for safety and support, into long term, helpful, learned behaviours.
We will teach you how to create connection in an outdoor environment so that we build a habit within the growing puppy that hanging out with their human is the most valuable thing to do. This means that we can teach your pup all the things that they ned to know to be safe off the lead and how to enjoy hanging out with you on a lead. How to walk together or chill out standing still together.
Using boundary work we can help our puppies learn how to manage their emotions, how to cope with not being involved in everything, how to deal with FOMO, how to deal with being on their own, and how to deal with being with people and not having to be the centre of everything all of the time.
Helping a puppy to become a well rounded, secure, educated adult dog is a long term project. I wrote a blog about this, click here if you would like to read about how it takes two years for your puppy to become two years old! This is a marathon, not a sprint. There are many stages that your very cute puppy will go through before they become the dog that you hope that they will be.
We are here for you through all of those stages. You won’t need to come to training through the whole time that your dog is maturing but we are here whenever you need more input, or whenever you hit a snag.
For in-person private training sessions at our training venue in Silverton, Leanne teaches Tues and Weds from 1pm until early evening, Friday and Saturday, she teaches in the morning and early afternoon. The cost is £55 per hour session and these can be booked at a time and frequency to suit you.
Be prepared – Puppy Online Consultations
If you have never had a puppy before it can be quite a shock when that cute bundle turns into a weeing and pooing velociraptor. We offer a puppy preparation session that will ensure you have all the bits and pieces you need to make both your lives easier as well as prepare you for those first few weeks when you otherwise might feel quite at sea. We offer online pre-puppy sessions and online sessions once your puppy has come home but cannot yet attend our training venue due to not having had all of their vaccinations. During these sessions we can answer any questions that you have and also advise you how to adapt your home and routine so that you can make your puppy’s introduction as smooth as possible.
Online sessions can be on any platform that works for you and us. The cost is £55 for an hour session.
If you would like to book a session please email leanne@dogsrdogs.co.uk
