Puppy / Beginner Class - 5 Week Class
Class Total Cost: $395
(Deposit of $25 is required to reserve your spot in class)
5 Week Class (One Hour Classes)
Each little life on a leash is cherished in my Puppy Beginner Class. Pups are exposed to kind humans and kind training at the most impressionable time of their lives.
Please Note: Pups in class are all current on their vaccines. No person in my classes would let a vaccine date go by. Your pup is with other cherished pets. Provided the pups are current on their vaccine schedule that is all we need.
Last, I let my record speak, loudly. I have never, since I started Orange County's first puppy training classes in 1979, had a sick pup attend class, or seen any pup in class with a communicable disease nor has a pup gotten sick from attending my classes.
My Puppy Classes are not ‘watered down’ adult dog classes. The exercises and how I teach them are specifically developed for the young, growing canine brain. I created and developed the exercises I teach, a perfect blend of practical, useful training that appeals to both ends of the leash.
My training techniques are created by me and are not like other trainers. I do not use clickers. I do use food rewards appropriately to help your dog love training, gentle corrections, and simple and immediately effective methods.
Some of the home problems we'll cover and manners training:
Playful nipping
Potty Training
Preventing Separation Anxiety
Getting the harness on without biting
Preventing car sickness and creating a good car traveler
Sit in front of you
Sit in the heel position
Early leash walking skills
Drop it/ Leave it
Lie Down
Stay
Come
Jumping up
With such a packed schedule, there is little time for active play and socialization between pups. The puppy beginner class focuses on skills and problem-solving for home problems. I do not teach Defend Your Dog in Puppy Beginner Class.
Please enroll in the Puppy Social School/Defend Your Dog for active play and social time. I teach body language and how to understand what dogs say with it in the Puppy Social School.
Payment Terms: A $25 non-refundable deposit is required to reserve your spot in class, the balance will be due on the first day of class. Balance for class - $370 for Check or $360 for Cash. (Total for class is $395 for Check and $385 for Cash)
Vaccine Information
My puppy training class is the safest place you can take a pup.
My clients are the best of the best. After forty five years of successful training I have a special type of owner who enrolls in my class. These owners are caring, conscientious and tremendously responsible. Their pups are house dogs, fed quality diets, are current on vaccines and do receive veterinary care on a regular basis, for life. The quality of my clients is reflected in the overall health of their pets.
The importance of repeated exposure to 'the world' is critical to pups and especially so during the dog's most impressionable period of six to sixteen weeks. Since 1954 the research from Bar Harbor, Maine done by Scott and Fuller still holds true; that the most important social developmental phase is under seventeen weeks. Attending my Puppy Classes helps you take advantage of this critical stage.
Training classes in pet stores are the worst places to train a pup. During the week the traffic of dogs of uncertain care standards is high and, rescue dog groups bring dogs straight out of the shelter/other countries for potential adoption. The sneezing, coughing and urine/stool from these groups of dogs is a real threat to a pup's health, not the locations that I use. Do not compare those classes with mine.
The locations where I teach do not have sick dogs come in for treatment. Only healthy dogs are there. This is unlike a veterinarian's office which regularly has sick dogs come in. I am not exposed to nor do I handle sick dogs. Staff at a veterinarian office handle sick and well dogs. Keeping your pup out of my class while taking him to a veterinary office for visits does not make sense.
Pups in class are all current on their vaccines. No person in my classes would let a vaccine date go by. Your pup is with other cherished pets. Provided the pups are current on their vaccine schedule that is all we need.
Last, I let my record speak, loudly. I have never, since I started Orange County's first puppy training classes in 1979, had a sick pup attend class, or seen any pup in class with a communicable disease nor has a pup gotten sick from attending my classes.
See you in class
Dr. Sue Myles
Importance of Socialization
I found this great article on the website for American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior. It talks about how important Puppy Socialization is. Please read for yourself.
