We offer a positive learning environment where you can lay the foundation for your puppy to develop important life skills, and start your relationship and training off on the right foot. We use different exercises and activities to help you build your bond with your puppy, address common puppy behaviours, establish good manners, lay the proper foundation for further training, and provide the opportunity to socialize your puppy with different dogs, people and environments.

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Puppy Kindergarten is a general course that introduces a variety of foundational skills to help start your training off on the right foot. This includes topics such as; managing various puppy-related issues, socializing your puppy, and introducing foundational obedience skills. Our goal is to give you the tools to lay the right foundation with your puppy and build your relationship – so you can continue their training and help them become the perfect canine companion!

As part of the course, you will receive access to a recorded Intro Talk. This session introduces the training techniques we will use and provides strategies to address common puppy behaviours, such as house training, nipping, and biting.

Skills Include:

• Puppy-proofing your home
• Addressing common puppy issues (housetraining, nipping, chewing…)
• Socialization (dogs, people, places, and situations)
• Grooming, basic care, and going to the vet
• Greeting people and dogs appropriately
• Foundational obedience basics (place, name, sit, down, stay, loose leash walking, recall…)
• Impulse control
  
• And more!

Puppy Kindergarten consists of six one-hour classes that take place the same time each week at Tumblewood Canine. Maximum of 4 puppies per course.

Price: $390+HST for 6-week course plus recorded Intro Talk.