Karen, that's interesting, I hadn't really thought about training beyond this first few steps. I love the idea of gun dog training as she is from...
Hi Nicky, thanks for that, really interesting! I think we will try both. We have classes starting on Saturday. So I am going to see how we get on...
We are a week on from starting the training log. So here is progress and this week's aims! Training Walks She has continued to do really well...
Welcome!! You will get so much good advice here. This site has been a godsend to us. I know there will be lots of other advice from people far...
Oh, the lead is a great idea, I will give that a go. I haven't yet started to train her to lie on the mat, I was trying sit for a while and then...
In the past week Jessie has started jumping up at the table and at 2 mealtimes now has managed to take food off a child. Whilst the look of total...
I have no advice.... Just sympathy! We are doing 'drop it' with a food reward, which generally works, but hard to watch them all the time. Jessie...
Hi, thank you for that perspective. Really interesting and helpful, thank you. I also felt the 1:1s looked really good value compared to the...
Aw sounds like he is settling really, really well! My older child (6) was also the more wary one. 6 weeks into puppy ownership everyone loves her....
This is really helpful, thank you everyone. I think I am going to give the 1:1 a go as I feel I could really do with the tuition myself! I was...
Hi, I've just read an interesting thread on whether puppy classes are worth it and wanted a bit of further advice. My issue is that we can't make...
Yes, stairgate, good point! Our puppy is confined to the kitchen by a gate. The kids are banned from bringing toys in here now unless they want...
I am absolutely no expert as this is my first puppy. Hopefully some more experienced owners will be able to help too. But I have 2 kids of 4 and 6...
pest is an excellent word for Jessie! Most of the dogs we know tolerate her far more than she deserves, which makes her think she can get away...
Good look with vaccinations. Jessie didn't even notice the needle going in! I am sure he is settling down. I think if you got him at 12 weeks he...
We are in the same boat. Jessie is 15 weeks. We have neighbours with 6 dogs between them who we saw whilst out walking just now and she got so...
As I have never trained a puppy before, I thought it would be useful to write a training log to focus my mind on what we are doing each week and...
I think totally normal. Especially if they have just been separated from their litter mates. We had Jessie at 9 weeks and I started sleeping by...
I just had to share a small victory! I was so happy today that Jessie (14 weeks today) survived 6 noisy, excited three and four year olds coming...
Thank you, that is really helpful! We will work on being calmer! We are working on recall, but this is coming far slower than anything else! I...
