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 breeds of puppies are accepted.
Puppies of different ages are accepted.
Puppies must have had their required vaccinations prior to attending. Certificate or documentation of vaccination is required.
All puppies must be on a lead.
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 or email
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for the next class dates.
Orchard Hills Veterinary Hospital has been serving the Penrith Valley community and pets for over thirty years. As of January 2010, our hospital has a new owner and veterinary surgeon, Dr Camille Brandt. To view more about Camille and the exciting changes and new services available, visit our About us page.
