Overview
Our Intermediate Puppy Training strengthens your dog’s obedience foundations and introduces more advanced skills to help them cope with real-world environments, distractions, and the transition into adolescence. Training is delivered 1:1, allowing for tailored guidance, faster progression, and focused behavioural support.
Training takes place in your home and local environments around Oxford*, on days that suit your schedule.
Initial Consultation (90 minutes)
£89
What’s Included
- Assess your dog’s current skill level and training foundations
- Identify strengths, gaps, and training priorities
- Review obedience cues and communication techniques
- Introduce next-stage skills such as stronger recall, stays, and boundary work
- Discuss the changes and challenges associated with adolescence
Outcomes
- Assess your dog’s current skill level and training foundations
- Identify strengths, gaps, and training priorities
- Review obedience cues and communication techniques
- Introduce next-stage skills such as stronger recall, stays, and boundary work
- Discuss the changes and challenges associated with adolescence
Intermediate Puppy Training - 10 Sessions
£400
What’s Included
- Assess your dog’s current skill level and training foundations
- Identify strengths, gaps, and training priorities
- Review obedience cues and communication techniques
- Introduce next-stage skills such as stronger recall, stays, and boundary work
- Discuss the changes and challenges associated with adolescence
- Reliable recall in high-distraction environments
- Advanced loose-lead walking and heelwork patterns
- Complex stay and boundary scenarios
- Controlled socialisation encounters
- Settling and neutrality around dogs and people
- Environmental confidence and resilience training
- Introduction of new cues, drills, and proofing exercises
- Ongoing troubleshooting support for adolescent behaviours
Outcomes
- Respond more reliably to cues
- Show greater impulse control and focus
- Walk more calmly in real environments
- Communicate more clearly with their handlers
- A confident, responsive, and well-mannered young dog
- Strong obedience foundations that hold up in public spaces
- Better focus around people, dogs, and distractions
- Clear communication between owner and dog
- Reduced emerging adolescent problem behaviours
- Readiness for Advanced Puppy Training
Intermediate Puppy Training can also be booked in blocks of 3 at a cost of £150
*a surcharge may be applicable if your trainer has to travel far from central Oxford for sessions