Puppy Foundation Manners

The Puppy Foundation Manners Course is a 6 week course, suitable for all puppies up to around 18 weeks at the start of the course. 

The course consists of 5 real time face to face sessions which are run on a rolling programme to enable puppies to start as soon as they are ready.  In addition there is bonus introductory content which is found on the dedicated clients Facebook Group containing the information supporting the course.  The introductory content consists of several modules and there are also lots of other resources on this Facebook group to assist your learning together. 
 
The 6 week course is designed to start developing your new puppy into a confident, well socialised member of your family and deals with all main common puppy issues including

• how puppies learn and why positive training works
• how to start teaching them to walk well on the lead
• toilet training
• bite prevention 
• returning when called
• preventing jumping up
• learning to sit, stand, lie down and how to settle
• dropping and leaving items when asked
• understanding body language
• preventing separation anxiety
• developing confidence through learning 

Real time sessions take place on Sunday afternoons and as demand dictates, addtional classes will be added on Monday mornings and Tuesday evenings (from time to time the classes may be combined with Bronze Basic Manners so may have older puppies and adult dogs present).  If you are unable to attend the current sessions on offer, please do get in touch and we will let you know if we can accommodate your preferred session time in the near future.  We will train in our dedicated indoor hall unless government restrictions do not permit indoor training, in which case, the session will be held at the usual time via Zoom.  

PLEASE SIGN UP FOR THE 5 FACE TO FACE CLASSES THAT YOU WISH TO ATTEND (weeks 2-6 of the course) - IT IS PREFERABLE TO SIGN UP TO ONE CLASS EACH WEEK (Sunday session is then repeated on Monday and Tuesday so you can pick any session each week) TO ENSURE THAT YOU COMPLETE THE WHOLE SYLLABUS. 

At the end of the course you can ask to be assessed for Prelim Level 1 of the CDT Achievement Awards free of charge, which includes trainin behaviours covered and canine knowledge.

WHEN YOU HAVE SIGNED UP, PLEASE APPLY TO BE ADDED TO THE PRIVATE CLIENT FACEBOOK GROUP (CDT Clients Group - Puppy, Bronze, Silver, Gold, 121s) CONTAINING THE WEEK 1 INTRODUCTORY MODULES WHICH YOU CAN THEN START STRAIGHT AWAY https://www.facebook.com/groups/618303232097410. 
If you don't have access to Facebook, please ask for the content for the bonus introductory Week 1 content to be sent to you.