Bringing a new puppy home is a wonderful experience. An increasing number of dog owners are now opting to enroll their puppies at our Puppy School instead of performing the training at home. Our Puppy School classes has many social and behavioural benefits.
Social Benefits
Orchard Hills Veterinary Hospital Puppy School provides puppies with an opportunity to interact with other dogs before and during the training session. Dog-to-dog interaction is vital when it comes to ensuring that a puppy develops good social skills.
By attending Puppy School, your pup will learn to associate the visit to vet with good times and treats and will love coming to visit for vaccinations, desexing and annual check-ups.
Owner-Puppy Relationship Benefits
Enrolling a puppy in our classes isn’t just a chance to teach him new skills; it’s also an opportunity to bond and improve communications between you and your new puppy.
Our experienced dog trainers provide owners with guidance and alternative training methods that will best accommodate a particular puppy’s learning style.
Puppies also learn to experience what it’s like to process and perform simple commands amidst distraction.
Orchard Hills Vet Puppy School training program
Puppies will learn basic commands using positive reinforcement & reward
Owners are taught how to deal with behaviours such as chewing, digging, biting, barking, command stay, come, wait/off, fear of loud noises, fear of strangers/visitors to the home
Owners will learn different handling techniques and how to do a health checks on their pups
Our Puppy School believes that the handling of young puppies is very important to socialize with people later on. We use different games to teach this behaviour to puppies.
Our training program also teaches children how to safely interact with puppies
Who can attend?
All shapes, sizes, sexes, colours and ages of puppy are welcome to join. You puppy must however have atleast their first puppy vaccination in order to attend. Documentation may be requested.
What to bring
All puppies must be on a lead at all times unless otherwise instructed.
If your puppy is a fussy eater it is recommended that you bring some of their favourite treats, however liver treats will be supplied
Bring yourself and your family along! All memebers of the family are welcome to come. It helps develop unity and consistency in your puppy's learning.
When does Puppy School Commence?
Puppy school normally runs on a Wednesday evening across 4 weeks. Each session last for 1 ½ hours.
Due to popular demand, our Puppy School classes run on a regular basis. To ensure that owners and puppies get lots of attention and time to practice, we restrict class numbers. Please contact us for the next available class dates.
Say hello to our Experience Dog Trainer
Jill King is our experienced Dog Trainer, who is also a qualified Veterinary nurse. Jill started dog training in England and since moving to Australia has studied under renowned Veterinarian & Animal behaviourist, Dr Ian Dunbar. Jill has also worked with “Dog Whisperer”, John Richardson.
Watch out for Jill’s new Training Program for Adolescents – called Leader of the Pack. This exciting 5 week course, runs on Saturday mornings & with increasing numbers has also started Thursday evening classes.
Leader of the Pack is a fun packed class and includes:
Clicker training
Exercising your dog with agility
Come to your leader
Who's leading who
Becoming the leader
Now you’re the leader
Also includes a First Aid lesson
We are continuously running puppy school classes, please contact 4736 2027 for the next class dates.
