Puppy Advice

Follow-on Classes

When your Puppy School foundation training class has finished (Puppy School classes or Older Pups classes), you may wish to continue your training journey with us by joining our follow-on classes.

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For puppies aged 20 weeks+

Superpup!

SuperPup has been designed as a follow-on course that will show you fun ways to develop and utilize your puppy’s superpowers and turn chaos into confidence and calm. Improve your bond and working relationship between you and your pup, improving focus in distracting situations.
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  • Speed up those recalls. Increase focus on you on walks. With this superpower your puppy will be the fastest in the park!

  • Simple doggy workouts and body maintenance tips for your SuperPup. Important for all superheroes!

  • Teach your pup the skill of complete calmness. Sometimes stealth is required on a superhero ‘mission’!

  • Sharpen your SuperPup’s senses. Play a variety of simple nosework games. Teach your puppy to be brave and courageous!

  • On things, over things, under things. Fun ideas to improve your SuperPup’s flexibility.

  • Throughout the course, use the fun, socialisation challenges set for homework and try to become SuperPup of the Week! 

For puppies aged 20 weeks+

Puppy University

Puppy University is designed to offer our clients a structured yet fun and educational course that tackles some of the challenges of owning an adolescent dog. The recommended age for puppies attending Puppy University classes is five months old (or as soon as your puppy has finished our Puppy School course or equivalent).  Puppy University is also suitable for those owners and dogs who have not attend Puppy School but who have already secured a basic level of training. To discuss whether this course would be suitable for your puppy or dog, please get in touch with your Puppy University Tutor direct who will be able to advise you.
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What will we learn?

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The following exercises are taught at Puppy University: 

Checking in

Building up a Retrieve

Verbal markers

Life Rewards

Weekly Tricks!

Developing 'Leave'

Distance cues

Developing Loose lead walking

Developing ‘Stays’

Manners through gateways and doorways 

 

*Please note that not all of our Puppy School tutors run our follow-on Puppy University course. To find out which of our tutors offer this course in your local area, for course price information and info on how to book onto a Puppy University course, please see our ‘Puppy University class locator’* 

 

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Other options?

Many Puppy School tutors provide other Puppy School follow-on courses and further adult dog training.  Some also offer courses towards obtaining the Kennel Club Canine Good Citizen Scheme qualifications or structured classes via the Pet Professional Guild.

For details of further classes your local Puppy School tutor may be running, please contact them or look at their website page.

Find your local Puppy School tutor

If none of our Puppy School tutors are local to you, we recommend contacting an Animal Behaviour and Training Council (ABTC) registered Animal Training Instructor for further help and advice.

Find an ABTC registered Training Instructor

 

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Testimonials

What Clients say
about Puppy School

  • “It was just a great course, it helped so much with our confidence in training Lucky correctly, and watching his confidence grow from being super nervous when he started, to the outgoing bundle he is now. Puppy School has been amazing!”
    —   Erica
  • “I really enjoyed these classes. Frankie was knowledgeable and explained the reasoning for why you need to do things the way you go in such an interesting and straightforward manner. It has definitely helped with Cooper.”
    —   Joe
  • “I can highly recommend Puppy school. I have owned dogs for over forty years but I still learnt lots of invaluable information to help with life with my new puppy. Puppy School was fun as well as informative. Betty and I both enjoyed them so much, thank you Puppy School and Frankie. ”
    —   Debby
  • “We are very grateful to Pen for helping us through a testing period with Zef, our boisterous 5-month-old labradoodle puppy, who was mouthy and jumpy and had difficulty settling.”
    —   Wendy
  • “We attended puppy school with our American bully puppy coco, we had already had a terrible experience with another school who made us feel tidally uncomfortable and unwelcome with our puppy. Puppy school Hollywood could not have been more different, Sarah was a fantastic tutor and a real supporter of Coco, encouraging us when the muzzle made exercises that bit more tricky and thinking up modifications so Coco was never left out. We were introduced to the class and the explanation of why Coco was wearing a muzzle was done in a way that we didn’t feel in any way uncomfortable and the other puppy parents were reassured. Thank you so much for giving our very restricted puppy the opportunity to be ‘normal’, I can’t articulate what an impact it had.”
    —   Frances