Thursday Nights 6pm - 7pm and 7pm - 8pm

Bury Parish Church, Bury

This is not your typical dog obedience training class. This is a 6 week course for puppies who must be under 20 weeks old at the beginning of the session. When we get puppies, due to health reasons we have to protect them and they are kept away from other dogs for what is nearly 1/3 of their life at that point. Coming out into the world at 12/14 weeks can be very scary. However we have a short, very important window of opportunity to expose our puppies to as much as possible before their socialisation window closes.

The aims of the puppy class it to teach manners, basic training, bite inhibition and socialisation with people, children and other dogs. We also include an overview of clicker training, handling for examination (which will make visits to the vet less stressful for all) and grooming. The training exercises covered are getting your puppy to interact with you while there are distractions, walking on a loose lead, come back when called, leave, sit, stand, down, stays and roll over (just for fun). We also have a puppy obstacle course with hoops, cones, poles and tunnel to help with confidence building. We use music and games to make training fun.

The classes include on and off lead socialisation and also we have the trainers adult well tempered dog attend at some point during the course as part of the socialisation.

All training methods are kind and reward based.

We encourage all the family (including children) to attend the classes and get involved, refreshments are provided free of charge, the training environment is fun, friendly and relaxed.

  The classes are a rolling 6 weeks so you can begin as soon as your vet says its safe for your puppy to go out (usually 2 weeks after last vaccination) this also means you will not be training with the same puppies for 6 weeks and your puppy will get the opportunity to meets lots of different puppies and people in a changing environment. The socialisation window is very small and it important to me that puppies get out and about and exposed to as much as possible as soon as they can, this means you do not have to wait until a course start date and miss out on important socialisation.

For more details or to book a session contact us on 0161 795 6095 or email Jane@eltondogclub.co.uk