Basic Manners Puppy Training Classes – Puppy Manners, Puppy House Training, Puppy Obedience Socialization Classes

Train your new family member with Friends for Life Training puppy positive training techniques that work. Your puppy will be rewarded for life! Sign up for our Basic Puppy Manners six week Puppy Training Class for only $110 including a free workbook, clicker, 20% discount on our six week Basic Manners Dog class, and receive one free pass to our Friday Night Grab Bag Class which includes Exerball, Nose Work, and introduction to Tellington TTouch training. Plus a special *Workshop Class of your choice for loose leash walking, nail trimming, and solving behavior problems such as excessive jumping, and barking.

Graduate from our Basic Puppy Manners Class and our Basic Dog Manners Class and receive a 10% lifetime discount at Friends For Life Dog Training including our popular Private Training Classes.

Course Goals

By the end of this course, students will know:

• How Puppies Learn
  Understand how dogs learn by association (the world is either safe or dangerous for the puppy) and consequence (it works for the puppy or it doesn’t work for the puppy) and the implications of these learning modes for training and living with dogs. Yes training a puppy can be fun.
• Fear and Aggression Prevention
  Understand the importance of bite inhibition and socialization in preventing aggression. Be able to provide positive social experiences for their new puppy and install bite inhibition.
• Basic Needs
  Understand the basic physical and mental stimulation needs of dogs and how to provide for them.
• Behavior Management
  Understand the importance of and be able to implement management strategies to prevent unwanted puppy behavior. Topics covered> house training puppies, proper chew toys for puppies, crate training for puppies, puppies that jump, puppies that bark, aggression in puppies and prevention, puppy separation anxiety.
• Reinforcement & Motivation
  Understand what is reinforcing for their puppy and be able to use this knowledge to effect positive training outcomes.
• Handling and Focus
  Be able to achieve and maintain control of puppy through safe, positive leash handling and positive methods of focusing puppy’s attention.
• Situational Awareness
  Understand the importance of and learn to always be aware of one’s surroundings, and be ready to respond proactively as needed to keep dogs and humans safe and comfortable.
• Work at the puppy’s Level
  Understand the importance of and be able to set reasonable expectations for and assess puppy’s behavior and progress based on one’s own skills, the pup’s experience, and the surrounding situation.  (Criteria setting, proofing, and rate are built into the exercises designed to teach this goal.)
• Nothing for Free
  Understand and be able to use the concept of Nothing for Free to train and reinforce their puppy in real life situations.
• Problem Solving
  Be able to apply class learning to problem solve positive approaches to real life situations.

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