WONDER PAWS PUPPY COURSE

5-WEEK LEVEL 1 PUPPY TRAINING & SOCIALISATION COURSE​

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Start training your puppy before problems develop.  Our 5-week basic obedience and socialisation course is a wonderful way to bond with your puppy and successfully integrate them into family life and the human world beyond!

- Sit, Down, Touch Recall, Go to Mat and settle behaviours

- Develop Impulse Control with new skills like Leave-It, Stay, 4-paws on floor

- Behaviours trained using food lures, then quickly progress to handsignals & verbal cues

- Loose-lead walking techniques

- Building a Reliable Recall with distractions

- Carefully supervised off-leash play

- Manage puppy behaviours like play-biting, jumping, chewing etc

-  Key socialisation with other puppies, adults and children and novel stimuli
- Dog Safety & Bite Prevention: appropriate puppy handling, teaching bite inhibition, trading games etc

- Grooming preparation (happy with hands and brush skills)

- Puppy nutrition, husbandry, care & grooming

- Responsible dog ownership
- Boosts SHY puppies confidence & helps prevent fear-based behaviours

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age:  10 weeks - 24 weeks (at Week 1 date)
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pre-requisite:  full set of vaccinations PLUS canine cough vaccine​

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location: Wonder Paws Dog Park, Beech Hill Allotments, Scalp Rd Enniskerry MAP HERE - if the entrance gate is close just text the code OPEN GATE to 087 4344076

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duration:  5 x 1hr weekly classes ​

**COVID PROTOCOLS**

• Masks are MANDATORY at our training location - please wear from exiting your car
• Please observe 2m distancing from other clients
• 1 handler per puppy (over 12yrs) at our location PLUS one accompanying adult(s) is permitted to spectate on the sidelines adhereing to the 2m distancing rule - please bring your own camp-chair