General Puppy Training Classes
Our puppy training classes cover all ages of puppies regardless of their level of training.
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Age Guide - UP to six months old
Junior Puppy
Week One Theory Topics Without Your Puppies:
- Training methods
- Mouthing and chewing
- Calmness and calming behaviours
- Appropriate socialisation
- Appropriate habituation
- Rewards and motivation
- Dogs and the law
- Toilet training
- Feeding
- Enrichment
- Effects of early spaying/neutering
- Management of behaviours
- Marker training prep for class
- Marker Training
- Teaching your puppy their name
- Teaching your puppy to sit with duration
- Introducing a release cue
- Teaching your puppy to lie down
- Begin to teach a stay
- Collar touches
- Introduction to recall
- Introduction to loose lead walking
- Introduction to leave
- Handling and why it is important
- How to manage jumping up
- Introducing a drop cue
- What resource guarding is
- General good manners
- Appropriate puppy play
- Certificate & Rosette on completion of class
You can attend with your puppy once their second course of vaccinations has been completed and are able to mix safely with the other puppies.
Surrey Dog School
Apps Court Farm (Gate One)
Hurst Road
Walton-On-Thames
KT12 2EG
Drive through Gate One for 50 yards and the school is the first large building on your right with toll free parking in front.
We can allow a maximum of 4 handlers per puppy.
Children are welcome, but we must ask they remain seated unless asked to perform training so as to avoid any distractions for your puppy.
- 10% off a 1-1 training session with Surrey Dog School (valid for one year from issue)
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- Free pack of high quality treats
- Free sample of Baileys kibble – No grain, high meat content stocked by Surrey Dog Feeds (next door)
- Two natural delicious chews for your puppy
- A puppy toy
- There is a toll-free car park outside the School for you to use with a good sized grassed area for your puppy to spend a penny!
- We ask all owners to wait outside the school by their cars.
- We will open up the school door and call you in one-by-one (so as to avoid any stress to your puppy or so we can assist if they are feeling a bit shy).
SAFETY: Please do not attempt to enter the school unless called in on arrival or if late please ring the bell on the door and wait to be brought in. This is due to there being loose dogs or reactive dogs being brought out. Always wait away from the main entrance.
Age Guide - six to Twelve Months +
Puppy Follow On
These six week classes are designed to take off nicely from where you finished in our Puppy Junior class, or if you have completed a puppy course elsewhere. Including the introduction of cues and behaviours to helping your puppy understand these in more complex situations.
These classes are designed to take off nicely from where you finished in our Puppy Junior class, or if you have completed a puppy course elsewhere. Including the introduction of cues and behaviours to helping your puppy understand these in more complex situations.
- Progressing your puppy’s recall incorporating harder distractions
- Focusing on your puppy’s ability to walk nicely on a lead for longer periods of time
- Increasing the distance and duration of your puppies stay
- Progressing their downs with duration and the removal of food luring where possible
- Introducing new behaviours such as middle and touch
- Interactive toy play
- Increasing their ability to leave or drop an item
- Appropriate and polite greetings
- Dog body language
You can attend with your puppy once their second course of vaccinations has been completed and are able to mix safely with the other puppies.
Surrey Dog School
Apps Court Farm (Gate One)
Hurst Road
Walton-On-Thames
KT12 2EG
Drive through Gate One for 50 yards and the school is the first large building on your right with toll free parking in front.
We can allow a maximum of 4 handlers per puppy.
Children are welcome, but we must ask they remain seated unless asked to perform training so as to avoid any distractions for your puppy.
- There is a toll-free car park outside the School for you to use with a good sized grassed area for your puppy to spend a penny!
- We ask all owners to wait outside the school by their cars.
- We will open up the school door and call you in one-by-one (so as to avoid any stress to your puppy or so we can assist if they are feeling a bit shy).
SAFETY: Please do not attempt to enter the school unless called in on arrival or if late please ring the bell on the door and wait to be brought in. This is due to there being loose dogs or reactive dogs being brought out. Always wait away from the main entrance.
Our Puppy Follow On classes suite 6 to 12 month year old puppies. We do accept older puppies, but you must call us to discuss what level of training your puppy has, prior to booking as you may require a 1 to 1 training session to get up to speeed.
