DogBasics Dog Training Lessons

 

Puppy, Basic or Advanced?

Once you have finished the Introduction Course, you can pick lessons that interest you from the lesson list on the Introduction Course page. For example; puppy socialisation, improving your recall, stay, walking on lead, or try something new, such as; agility, clicker training, tricks, search and retrieve, etc.

For these further lessons, you can pay on the day or buy a book of lessons for a discounted price. The price for each lesson is £5. If you buy a book of 4 lessons the price will be £16.

We don't have specific puppy classes anymore because most of the dogs that come here for training are already under a year old. The socialisation sessions and lessons are of mixed ages, but we always assess each dog before putting them in a group, so that we make sure they end up in a group that they can enjoy. The very young puppies get to socialise with the more shy dogs in the Small Breed socialisation sessions, until they are confident enough to move up to the Medium Social. When they are really confident and boisterous, they can move up to the XL social, but this group is mainly for the older dogs.

Out of our Basic range you can choose between the following type of lessons: Walk lessons where we work on recall, sit/down/stand, stay, walking on lead without pulling, search (great for their mental stimulation) and focus exercises. In the Basic lessons we go through all the basics - sit, down, stay, not jumping up, leave/relinquish, calm on cue/relaxation, distance control. We often do the exercises in a playful way, for example training stay by playing musical chairs. There are also Clicker training, Search and Agility lessons.

Please also read our basic training article.

Only advanced Agility is available for our most loyal clients, at the moment.

Our Agility lessons are very basic. Even though the trainer is an Agility course instructor, we don't have the full set of obstacles needed for proper agility training, so this is not a suitable class for those of you looking to compete or who are already competing in Agility. These lessons are mainly held for mental stimulation and fun for the dog and owner. We currently have a 6 meter long tunnel, a full sized A-frame, a full sized seesaw, flat tunnel, a table, a long jump, 12 regular jumps and a couple of weave sets.

The First Aid lesson is mainly held by the head nurse at Berry House Vet Practice, Philippa Jackson-Cox. Philippa will give you examples of how to care for your dog if he is badly wounded, when you should rush to the vet and when you can care for the dog yourself. She will also show you how to put a bandage on your dog. After this you will be shown how to teach your dog to accept a health check. This will be followed by an introduction to FLP Aloe Vera products (for more info see www.aloe4animals.co.uk) for those who are interested. You are of course welcome with any questions related to your dog's health during this lesson.

Beagle jumping hurdles in an agility lesson at DogBasics	Hungarian Viszla in a stay exercise on the agility table at DogBasics
Eurasier puppy and Working Spaniel puppy playing in puppy socialisation session at DogBasics	Day dogs and boarding dogs at DogBasics out on a walk