Six short exercises, about an hour with breaks, matched to your puppy's age. Tick off each skill as they learn it.
One email, on the day it's ready. Nothing else.
The way a good puppy class runs, at home, on your schedule.
Six exercises with breaks between them: four training tasks and two games. About an hour, in short bursts.
42 skills, from toilet training to spin, each in three levels with a test you can run at home. When your puppy passes it, you tick it off.
Treats, play and praise. We never use anything that scares or hurts a dog.
Matched to age: 8 weeks, 3 months, 6 months, adult. Each skill has three levels and a home test.
Marker word, taking treats gently, focus, hand target, settling in a crate or bed.
Toilet outside, sleeping through, settle on a mat, time alone, chewing the right things.
Sit, down, wait, stay, leave it, drop it, four paws for greetings, quiet on cue.
Loose lead, recall, passing dogs, meeting people, traffic, car travel, the vet.
Spin, paw, high five, roll over, play dead, weave, fetch, tidy toys, bow.
Sniff and search, food puzzles, tug with rules, impulse control, calm after play.
A few of the moments the plan is built from, across the stages.
Sit on the floor with your puppy in a quiet room and say their name once, in a happy voice.
Wait until your puppy is looking elsewhere in a quiet room, then say their name once in a happy voice.
Stand still with the dog nearby. Say their name once in a happy voice.
Take a handful of kibble from their daily meal allowance and scatter it through the grass.
Lay the towel flat and drop treats along it, then roll it up loosely for them to unroll.
Put a treat in some of the muffin cups and let them work out which ones.
Made by Blain, who lives with Winnie, a four-year-old Labrador who taught him most of this the slow way. Questions or thoughts: Email us.