Getting your Puppy Training Perfect
Are you getting a puppy? There's a lot to decide - male or female? Big or small? Pedigree or Crossbreed? But there's one thing you can be sure of - Puppy School is the place to go to turn your bundle of fluff and teeth into a loyal and well-behaved family friend.
Puppy School is an established national network of professional tutors, founded by world-renowned dog behaviourist Gwen Bailey, author of many bestselling puppy training books including The Perfect Puppy. Tutors are carefully selected, trained, and monitored, by her.
Our puppy classes are always small, and the atmosphere friendly. Owners are shown how to get the most out of their relationship with their puppy, and the puppy training methods used are all gentle and crucially involve the puppy being able to make choices.
The Puppy School Tutor for Malvern and Ledbury is Beverley Courtney, who has a long history of working with dogs, training them and competing with them.
"I love watching the spark of comprehension in a dog's eyes when he gets the new game you're playing with him - it's all games to them!" That new game may be coming when called, walking nicely on the lead, or playing calmly with the children.
There's no shouting, no throwing things, and no pushing or pulling dogs around. "Those puppy training methods went out with the ark," says Beverley, "People used to beat children and send them up chimneys, but we've changed our approach to teaching them - the same goes for dogs."
Puppy School stresses the importance of early socialisation - indeed plenty of experienced dog-owners know how valuable it is and come to class principally for the positive experiences their puppy will enjoy there.
"We have thoroughly enjoyed the course and more importantly so has Oscar. He has come on leaps and bounds - we are very proud of him. We're both very, very happy with the course and your method of puppy training. Thanks for making the training fun and enjoyable!"
Border Terrier pup owner,
Fernhill Heath
If your puppy has got to six or seven months old and missed out on early classes, you can still access this help and puppy training. Beverley runs classes for older puppies as well, at Good for Dogs!
Run along the same lines as Puppy School, they also explore door manners, play manners, dog tricks, and a lot of calm self-control from the pups. So it's a great follow-on class for Puppy School graduates, too.
"Teenage dogs are just like teenage people," Beverley told us. "Your charming puppy hits six or seven months and seems to have forgotten everything you learnt together!" This is a time when lots of dogs get rehomed due to bad behaviour, but in most cases a bit of help and guidance is all that's needed to get them through this tricky period.
"Excellent course - can't believe the progress in 6 weeks. Beverley clearly understands the dynamic between dog and owner and how to enhance the relationship between them. Above all, the classes were great fun!"
Labrador owner,
Malvern
"The Good for Dogs! course has given us the tools to help our dog to grow up and be as we want him to be - so that we're all happy."
Terrier owner,
Longdon
Classes are held in Malvern and Worcester, with people travelling from Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, and Herefordshire, for this level of puppy and dog training.
We have puppies from Malvern, Worcester, Ledbury, Hereford, Bromyard, Stourport, Bewdley, Tenbury Wells, Droitwich, Colwall, Newent, Defford, Upton-upon-Severn, and Tewkesbury.
Private sessions are also very popular.
Home Visits
Quite often, problems you may be experiencing at home can most easily be solved at home. So a very popular feature of Good for Dogs! is a home visit.
Beverley will come out to you and show you how to train better behaviours, and give you management tips while you are working on this with your dog. You can arrange follow-up visits, or simply phone for guidance while you're working through the protocols.
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Good for Dogs!
Beverley Courtney
MAPDT : 01086