We will get familiar with the theory of learning and then immediately put it into action. In this module, your puppy will:

• develop drive and motivation to work with you,
• get familiar with clicker training -> which adds to speed and accuracy of learning
• learn how to learn new behaviours -> so puppy starts offering new things,
• start with crate games, recall foundations and nice leash walking.

On top of it, we will go through a few fun tricks good for puppy's body awareness.

We'll continue and upgrade, what we learned in the first two weeks and start having fun with:

• teaching your puppy to go on his place,
• handling to get him used to visits to the vet, groomer, dog show, etc.,
• practicing rear-end awareness to develop his balance and
• learn some new tricks based on nose targeting.

In week 5 & 6 we:

• add speed to the recall and make it super fun,
• start sending a puppy to the crate while adding distance and duration,
• introduce nail clipping -> so it quickly becomes regular "non-scary" routine
• build foundations for heeling, which is used in lots of dog sports and helps to build focus on the owner, and
• learn how to calmy hold different objects.

We start working on:

• a recall from dogs and other distractions,
• retrieving toys, which can with time evolve in bringing any thing you like,
• basic positions - sit, stand, down,
• self-control around food and toys,
• walking backward for even better coordination and
• sending around cone, tree or any other object.

In this last module, we combine things that we learned so far and focus on:

• heeling,
• adding self-control to the crate and place training,
• proofing basic positions with triple D (duration, distance, distractions),
• sending to the target and
• sending around objects from a even greater distance.

When you finish with the Puppy class, you will have an obedient, active and confident puppy with really good foundations for on-going work.