Puppy Primer

Our Puppy Primer course is a 3 week starter course for puppies so that we can lay the foundations of polite interactions and deal with any puppy problems you are having.

This course builds a reliable response to name, teaches handling and grooming basics, emphasizes calm responses from puppies, and introduces polite social skills.

This is all a requirement for all new puppies before moving to our Polite Puppy Foundations to build a reliable relationship between you and your dog.

All puppies must be fully vaccinated, including with kennel cough to join the group. This group is open to puppies up to 16 weeks of age on the 1st week of class.

Start date - Sunday 5th March, 10am, Prosperous, Kildare
Course dates: 05/03, 12/03, 26/03

Start date - Sunday 4th April, 10am, Prosperous, Kildare
Course dates: 02/04, 16/04, 23/04

Cost €75

Polite Puppy Foundations 

Our Polite Puppy Foundations group is designed to introduce the basics of polite interactions and general manners to your pup. This six week long course reinforces the calm down and chill work you did in Puppy Primer and builds on it. This group is for puppies under 7 months of age.

We focus on continuing to build that solid rapport between you and your dog and work on polite leash walking, recall, self control and polite greetings.

All puppies must be fully vaccinated, including with kennel cough to join the group.

Start date - 11:15am - 12:15am  Sat Apr 15th, Monread Park Naas
Course dates: 15/04, 22/04, 06/05, 13/05, 20/05, 27/05

Cost €180 

Scentwork - Level 1 Course for Trials

Our Level 1 Course for Trials is open to both  dogs who are brand new to scentwork and for dogs who have done courses in this area before. We are building up to a level where your dog can, if you so choose, compete in a Scentwork UK Level 1 trial. We will hold a mock trial at the end of the course and look to set up a trial for those who wish after that.

In this course we will teach your dog to look for a target odor in four environments:
1. Luggage search
2. Office search
3. Vehicle search
4. Shed search
 

We are fully accredited by ScentworkUK and follow the main competition programme. There is no requirement to take part in any competitions in this course.

Start date - Sun 2nd April, 11am, Garvogue, Prosperous
Course dates: 02/04, 16/04, 23/04, 07/05, 14/05, 21/05, 28/05, 11/06, 18/06, 25/06

Cost €450

Scentwork Practice - All Levels

This course is for dogs at all levels of Scentwork to practice once you have completed a course with us previously. These weekly sessions add extra exercises and focus on specific elements that you have covered previously in classes but tidying up and refining your work with your dog. These classes run in two blocks of 5 weeks each.
 

We are fully accredited by ScentworkUK and follow the main competition programme. There is no requirement to take part in any competitions in this course.

Start date - Sun 2nd April, 1pm - 2pm, Garvogue, Prosperous
Course dates:

Block 1: 02/04, 16/04, 23/04, 07/05, 14/05
Block 2: 21/05, 28/05, 11/06, 18/06, 25/06

Cost €150 each block

Polite Puppy Practice

Polite Puppy Practice is a group to help you practice your behaviours from your Foundations class and help you get over any obstacles or sticking points you have had in your training. We work to get you and your puppy ready for the next level of training that will build on the Foundations work.

Our main focus is to continue working on our recall, polite leash walking, and general day to day self control.  If you are still having issues with your jumping up, nipping, not coming back at all, and pulling on leash, this is the course for you.

Cost €1 80

Polite Puppy Intermediate

The Polite Puppy Intermediate group is our follow on, level 2 course, from Polite Puppy Foundations. You must have completed Foundations or Adult Obedience L1 to join this group. 
In this course we build on the foundations we created in the first course and start to add more difficulty and real world distractions. So we will be working on recall past food, dogs and other obstacles, walking nicely past similar distractions and sitting quietly while handlers stop for a chat or a coffee.

To join the group your pup must be able to walk politely beside you for 10m in a non-distracting setting, and recall from the same distance also without distractions.

Start date - Sat 22nd April, 10am - 11am, Monread Park, Naas
Dates: 22/04, 06/05, 13/05, 20/05, 27/05, 10/06

Cost €180 

Puppy Playdates

Puppy playdates are off-leash, directed socialisation sessions for puppies and handlers to learn how best to interact with other off leash dogs. We go through polite play and how to intervene if necessary. A key component of the sessions are knowing when to intervene, along with listening to your puppy if they don't want to play with a particular other dog.

Playdates are open to puppies up to 8 months of age who have completed our Puppy Primer or Polite Puppy Foundations groups before. Please note that these sessions are not suitable for sorting out behaviour issues such as extreme nervousness, barking, lunging or snapping towards other dogs, we have other options for these issues.

All puppies must be fully vaccinated, including with kennel cough to join the group. This group is open to puppies up to 6 months of age.

 

Adult Obedience - L1

In our Adult Obedience course we introduce adult dogs (or any dog over 11 months of age) to the foundations of polite walking, reliable recall and general self control which includes dogs who jump up or pull to get over to see something.

Please note that this group is not suitable for dogs that bark, lunge or snap at other dogs or people on walks. We have a more suitable option for these cases, please get in touch with the office for further information.

Start date - Sat Feb 18/02/23, Monread Park Naas
Course dates: 18/02, 25/02, 04/03, 11/03, 25/03, 01/04
Cost €180