Below are resources to support your training goals. You will require a password to access the links below.
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