Walkies & Waggietails are opening more puppy and dog training classes in Isleworth!
Walkies and Waggietails are delighted to be expanding and opening more puppy schools and dog training classes in Isleworth, at a new location at St Johns Hall, St John’s Road, TW7 6NY. The new additional training facility will enable us to provide more Puppy Schools and Junior/Intermediate level training courses to West London. Our venues in Kew and Chiswick are very popular and we recognised the need to provide more availability and frequency, so that puppies can be socialised sooner and within the key socialisation period without having to wait.
Launching in April our first dog training courses in Isleworth will be:
Puppy Prep School & Play Group
Our puppy school is not just a socialisation puppy party, but a fully comprehensive 7-week course that covers everything from socialisation to house training, basic manners at home and on walks, healthcare, nutrition and all the basic positions such as sit, lie-down, stay, drop, leave, recall and reducing pulling on the lead.
We will help you guide your puppy through gradual positive socialisation, teaching appropriate play and meet and greet etiquette. We will help you to read your puppy’s body language to ensure they are happy and confident and provide choices where they may feel overwhelmed and guide you through all of the different developmental stages your puppy will experience and how to respond. We aim to provide you and your puppy with all the basic life skills they need to become a happy, calm and well-adjusted family pet.
During the course you and your puppy will learn:
· Basic positions such as sit, lie-down, stand-up and stay.
· How to settle and relax at home.
· Basic food and toy manners preventing possession, including ‘leave’ and ‘off’.
· Good ‘meet & greet’ manners that prevent jumping up and mouthing.
· Good lead manners and loose lead walking.
· Socialisation with people and playmates.
· Guiding appropriate play with other dogs.
· Toilet training.
· Crate training.
· Safe handling, grooming and health inspections.
· Learning to communicate with your dog and reading their body language.
· Health and Nutrition
· Learn about the key 10 development stages that affect your puppies learning and behaviour.
Puppy School Details:
Age requirement: 8 – 20 weeks of age (first vaccination necessary).
Course Length: 7 weeks
Price per course: £204.00
Junior/Adolescent and Intermediate Level Dog training course
The aim of our junior and intermediate course is to build upon and improve your basic skills, adapting them to real-life situations and advancing your dog’s response in any place, any time. At this stage, we also introduce the use of clicker training and aspire to help you further understand the basic principles behind canine learning theory so that you can positively and effectively communicate with your dog. All dogs are welcome to join this class from five months of age with no upper age limit. However, if your dog has no prior training, we may advise a one-to-one assessment and starter session before-hand.
The junior/intermediate course includes:
· Understanding the basic principles of canine psychology and learning theory
· Development of basic skills such as sit, stay, down and heel to advance response times in any given circumstance and ‘real-life’ situations.
· Introducing clicker training
· Teaching and progressing retrieve, drop, and give.
· Achieving good loose lead walking and heel throughout your walks.
· Improving impulse control such as leaving food, preventing jumping up and giving up toys.
· Learning door and car manners.
· Improving meet and greet on walks and visitors arriving at home.
· Generalising all the above behaviours to many different locations and situations and distractions
· Reducing the dependency on food for behaviours.
· Encouraging different types of play and games or training, rewards and bonding
Dog Training Intermediate Course Details
Age requirement: Minimum 5 months with no upper age limit
Course Length: 7 weeks
Price per course: £204.00
