The Adventure Puppy Training Programme
3 months of perfect puppy foundations, through in-home one-to-one puppy training in Leamington Spa.
Traditional puppy classes are broken. We fixed them!
Old School Puppy classes: Generic exercises that are easiest to teach to a large group of people
Our Programme: The exercises that get the best results for you and your dog
Puppy classes: Sterile environments, around other excitable puppies, that’s unrealistic to your real life
Our Programme: I work with you at home and out in the real world, making sure your puppy learns real skills for real life
Puppy Classes: Prone to creating dog-obsessed or dog-fearful puppies
Our Programme: Socialisation done the right way
Puppy classes: Ignores breed-specific development needs
Our programme: We get breed-specific, and more importantly, dog-specific!
Old school puppy classes: 4-6 weeks long, and the class ends before your puppy has a chance to develop
Our programme: A 3-month programme, where we’re right there with you as your dog grows and changes
Who is this course for?
This course is for you if:
- You have a puppy under 6 months old
- You want to set your puppy up for the most success possible
- You want support to achieve your training goals
- You want a hollistic programme that takes you beyond obedience basics
- You want a life of adventures, small or large, for you and your dog for years to come
What makes this course different?
A hollistic approach
This isn’t just a basic obedience training class. It’s a hollistic programme that covers foundations for real life. Not just sit, down, stay and heel. (We will do those things! but so much more as well…)
The work that works
There’s a whole load of advice out there, some of which you may have already tried. The stuff we’re going to go through works! And it will set you up to do the work to live the life you want with your puppy as they grow up.
Full support throughout
You’ll have clear guidance and support geared specifically towards you and your puppy. You’ll have an easy training plan to execute, which you can make part of your daily routine, and access to help and support throughout your training.
What the course covers…
Relationship at home
Everything you need to know to create a healthy, respectful relationship at home to set you up for success outdoors
Puppy problems
Puppy biting, toilet training and chewing are just a few of the typical problems people come against with their puppies. I’ll take you through how to tackle each one with confidence to help you survive these early life challenges.
Socialisation
Socialisation isn’t what most people think it is. We’ll go through the right way to show your puppy the world isn’t a scary place. How and when to advocate for your puppy and what situations to avoid at different life stages. We’ll also go through how to tackle the dreaded ‘fear periods’.
Equipment
The right equipment for different life stages, and how to introduce it to your puppy.
The big 4: Recall, walking nicely on a lead, settling in public, and settling at home.
If you taught your puppy nothing else, you could live a life of adventure on just these four things. We’ll set the basics from session 1, in each session you’ll make clear progress, and by the end of the course you’ll have a really solid foundation that you can continue to develop into adulthood.
Focus, distractions and proofing
With puppies, developing focus is everything. We need to specifically work on this skill so you don’t feel like you’re constantly pleading with or bribing your dog for attention. We also need to look at how we work through distractions and proof our training effectively so we can make sure, as our puppies transition to adulthood, their training is rock solid in all environments.
Higher Certificate in Advanced Professional Dog Training Instruction (Professional Practice)
Michael Shikashio – Certificate of completion
Companion dog trainer
Steering group member