Below are resources to support your training goals. You will require a password to access the links below.
Client login
As a HBDT client, you will be assigned your own HBDT account login to access booking forms and manage online payment. You will find your login on your welcome email.
Foundation Training Exercises
- Eye Contact Game
- Loose lead heel walking
- Recall
- Sit
- Down
Establishing desirable behaviours and further information
- Human behaviour around your dog
- Chewing, nipping, biting, shredding and destroying things
- Jumping up
- Front door manners
- Puppy exercises and bone growth plates information
- Toileting outside
- Poisonous plants in your garden
- Pros and cons of early neutering
- Socialisation and desensitisation
Leaving your dog on their own
- Isolation Training
- Crate training
Verbal commands and body language
- How to use your voice effectively
- ‘Sit’, ‘Come’, ‘Heel’, ‘Leave it’ and ‘off’ – hand signals
Useful dog training kit and further information
- Treat pouch
- Whistle
Foundation Retrieving Exercises
- Picking up a training item
- Delivery to hand
Recommended Reading List
- selection of books that offer a rounded view and practical information on positive behaviour training techniques while explaining what makes our furry friends tick, covering the following topics:
- how to raise a happy and well mannered puppy
- how dogs communicate, body language, facial expressions, sounds and behaviour patterns
- positive behaviour training
- gundog training behavioural, physiological, historical and psychological
