Services

Foundation Puppy and Dog classes

Frettenham Village Hall Tuesdays 7pm

Sprowston Recreation Pavilion Thursdays 9:30am

£80 for 8 week course

This course of 8 x 50 minute classes introduces all the skills needed to build a harmonious and happy home with your puppy or dog. Class activities are carefully managed and adapted to ensure even anxious or shy dogs (and owners) have a good experience and build their confidence.

Practical skills taught:

• Recall from distractions
• Loose lead walking
• Sit, down and stay
• Leaving food and items
• Confidence and calmness (instead of jumping or barking)
• Responding to owner around other people and dogs
• Understanding your dog's behaviour and helping them learn
• Advice on home life (separation anxiety, playing nicely, crate training)

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Advancers multi-skill classes

Frettenham Village Hall Tuesdays 8pm

Sprowston Recreation Pavilion Thursdays 10:30am

£80 for 8 week course

These 50 minute classes are tailored to the needs of the dogs attending, so please discuss your needs so they can be included in the lesson. We can revisit basics that were missed or concentrate on persistent problem behaviours that need more attention than usual. For training enthusiasts, there is the opportunity to advance skills to a level above that exhibited by the average pet dog. As with all my training, the main aim is to have a happier and more co-operative relationship with your pet in your home and out and about.

Some examples of what can be covered upon request:

• Stay: Staying for duration with distractions, proofing the release cue.
• Recall: Recalling from food, toys, dogs, people and other distractions.
• Leave it: Leaving food and other items, including on the floor.
• Play skills: Fetch skills, dropping items, developing play skills.
• Walking to heel: Progressing loose lead including fixing bad habits.
• Manners/ calmness: Relaxing or focusing instead of jumping, barking etc.

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Private training sessions

For Locations including Norwich, Catton and surrounding areas*

£40 per session (1h max)

Depending on the needs of the dog, these sessions may take place at a local park, a secluded area, the trainer's home or the owner's home.

These sessions aim to address specific behaviours quickly and effectively. In each session, I teach your dog to better understand what it is you would like them to do, and then introduce practical, simple methods that you will be able to successfully carry out so you can continue the training independently.

You will learn how to make progress and gain a deeper understanding as to why your dog is behaving the way they are.

Private lessons that mimic group lessons can help you and your dog build the skills needed to succeed in group activities. You will learn techniques tailored to your dog to help them focus, and learn how to successfully respond to your dog's behaviour. Haku is available as a practice dog, to help your dog get used to responding to you while another dog is training nearby.

Drop-in Training

For Locations including Norwich, Catton and surrounding areas*

£30 per drop-in for a 40 minute visit. An introductory session must be carried out before booking an unsupervised visit.

In these sessions the trainer does all the training in a series of drop-in sessions until the skill is complete. As this service doesn’t involve teaching the owner how to also teach their dog, more complex training techniques can be used, and training often progresses more swiftly. Once the skill is complete, the trainer will show the owner what word or signals to use to put it into practice.

You are welcome to be there to watch the training, but this service can also take place while you are at out, so your dog not only gets some training but conveniently gets some enrichment and a toilet break while you are away. 40 mins of training is as tiring for a dog as an hour’s walk!

Common skills taught at drop-in sessions:

• All obedience commands such as sit, down, settle, stay
• Teaching manners: not jumping, leaving items and food, no mouthing
• Crate training, addressing separation anxiety
• Toy manners and teaching fetch, drop, hold, teaching not to snatch or mouth
• Confidence with being handled including grooming
• Loose lead walking and response to owner on walks

* Extra travel fees may apply if you are out of the trainer's local area.

Guided Walks

Near Mousehold Sundays 9am

45 mins £10 per dog

Does your dog seem nervous or over excited (or completely deaf) around other dogs? These guided walks give you the opportunity to help your dog build calmness, confidence and responsiveness to you around other dogs and people.

These walks are on lead, but the dogs will walk near eachother, therefore dogs attending must not pose a risk or behave in an intimidating manner towards other dogs in the group. Each dog will be assessed on a case by case basis.

Activites on the walk include:

• Practicing dog's response to their owner.
• Practicing essential skills (loose lead, stays and recall).
• Scatter feeding and encouraging sniffing (calming behaviours).
• Safely investigate other dogs in the group.
• Controlled encounters with strange dogs and people.
• Supportive, non-judgemental guidance and support.

Shielded Dog Walks

Near Mousehold

Tuesdays 8am

45 mins £10 per dog

These walks are suitable for dogs that aren't yet comfortable meeting any unfamiliar dogs on their walks. If you feel a leap of dread whenever you see an off-lead dog approaching, this walk will give you a chance to relax (which in turn can help change how your dog is feeling). You will have the opportunity to practice a calmer walk, as Haku and Justine will be working hard to shield your dog from any sudden approaches from off-lead dogs.

On top of this, Justine will teach owners different skills and activities all aimed at reducing reactivity and building confidence for your dog with gentle but effective methods.

The entire walk is on lead, and any dogs attending must be fully secure on their collar or harness. Any dog with a bite history must wear a muzzle to attend. Size of groups are small, and differ depending on the needs of the dogs involved.

Practical skills taught:

• How to position yourself and manage the lead to help your dog relax.
• Coaching dogs to respond to owner around other people and dogs.
• Opportunity for controlled investigation of other dogs.
• Haku will model calm greeting behaviours with strange dogs when possible.
• Scatter feeding and encouragement to sniff (calming behaviours).
• Justine and Haku will make every effort to divert any off-lead dogs who come near the group.