Dog Training - Reward Based
'Professional Reward-Based Dog Training'
Individual and Group Dog training classes in Plymouth with professional Karen Pryor Academy trainer Cassie Bond from Thinking Dog.
Do you want your dog to greet people nicely in the park?
Come when you call?
Walk with a loose lead?
We believe all owners & their dogs deserve great trainers.
Come when you call?
Walk with a loose lead?
We believe all owners & their dogs deserve great trainers.
Dog training has become a little less about obedience and a lot more about lifeskills in the last ten years ore more. More and more people want to train their dogs to be able to live in our communities. People want to know how to teach their dogs to be alone, without listening to it cry. How to teach their dogs not to jump all over visitors.
'Training should not be considered a luxury but should be a key component of any good animal-care program' - Ken Ramirez
We can help with all these matters. We just need to make sure your dog is in the correct environment for them.
'Training should not be considered a luxury but should be a key component of any good animal-care program' - Ken Ramirez
We can help with all these matters. We just need to make sure your dog is in the correct environment for them.
We have group puppy classes for dogs from 10 weeks - 24 weeks
Puppy classes are an excellent way to introduce both your family and your new puppy to the world.
Some of the exercises include teaching your dog to focus and offer attention, targeting behaviours including a place or settle cue, the recall, sits and downs (stay cues), loose-lead walking, and "leave it" cues.
Enrolling in Life-skills group classes can help your dog learn how to listen while surrounded by distractions, work on managed socialising with other dogs and people, and figure out how to pay attention. All whilst learning various exercises.
And we also offer personal consultations. These can be at home or in a public space. It might be that your dog can't cope in a setting with numerous other dogs? Or it might be that you have recently adopted a dog and want advice on behaviours you are seeing or basic training skills. Anything, we can help with then just feel free to get in touch.
Puppy classes are an excellent way to introduce both your family and your new puppy to the world.
Some of the exercises include teaching your dog to focus and offer attention, targeting behaviours including a place or settle cue, the recall, sits and downs (stay cues), loose-lead walking, and "leave it" cues.
Enrolling in Life-skills group classes can help your dog learn how to listen while surrounded by distractions, work on managed socialising with other dogs and people, and figure out how to pay attention. All whilst learning various exercises.
And we also offer personal consultations. These can be at home or in a public space. It might be that your dog can't cope in a setting with numerous other dogs? Or it might be that you have recently adopted a dog and want advice on behaviours you are seeing or basic training skills. Anything, we can help with then just feel free to get in touch.
There are a number of good reasons to train our dogs -
- To Build a Positive Relationship would be my number 1 reason to train your dog. Trust is built upon a positive relationship, and trust is at the centre of all positive relationships, human or dog or any sentient creature.
- To Teach Life Skills will definitely reduce the stresses of living in a society that has high expectations of our dogs these days. Recall, emergency stops, down-stays, sit while greeting are all fundamental life-skills offered in our classes
- To have a sociable yet responsive dog is the result of good training. Not a dog that plays with another dog and completely ignores you, but one that recalls when asked because of the relationship you have built through reward-based training.
- Every owner wants to Avoid Problem Behaviours and enrolling for some training is a good way to avoid them before them happen
- For Loyalty and Companionship, what better reason for training our dogs then to have dog that will sit contently with us in the evening while we watch television. Or, in the garden sunbathing while we tend to our raised beds.