Life Skills Foundation Behaviour Course

LIFE SKILLS FOUNDATION BEHAVIOUR COURSE

AGE: 6 - 12 months

Most puppies hit a few tricky phases as they grow up. One minute they’re calm and sensible, the next they’re a whirlwind of hormones. It’s all part of growing up, but it can feel a bit overwhelming.

Our Life Skills Foundation Behaviour Course helps you and your pup find your balance again — building calm, connection and self-control to ease you through those tangled moments.

This course is for puppies up to12 months of age at the start of the course. If your puppy is older than this, please ask for details of our Thinking-Dog Behaviour Programme.

The course covers the following:

Chasing behaviour on walks
Anxiety towards people and dogs when out and about (this looks like fearful behaviour and doesn’t include barking)
Over-excited jumping-up with minimal excited barking (please see below for notes on barking)
Anxiety towards unfamiliar people at home (this looks like fearful behaviour and doesn’t include barking)
Separation Issues
Generalised anxiety
Stress and/or anxiety when leaving the house and on walks (this can look like reluctance to move forward and rushing to get home or back to the car)
Fear of fireworks/storms/noise anxiety

LIFE SKILLS FOUNDATION BEHAVIOUR COURSE

SESSION ONE

Skills: practical solutions to help your puppy become calm and confident in all situations.

Foundation exercises for calmness and self-control
Foundation exercises for focus and responsiveness
Practical steps to manage one of the above issues
Foundation notes summarising the session
Pdf files to help you manage the issue

Duration: 60 minute face-to-face 1-1 session with Fern or Raquel.

Venue: Brattleby, Aisthorpe and Scampton Village Hall

Fee: £75 per 60 minute session with Fern

Fee: £60 per 60 minute session with Raquel

SESSION TWO

Skills:

Managing trigger situations
Managing secondary issues if needed
Foundation exercises to teach disengagement from triggers and responsiveness when triggered.

Duration: 45 minute face-to-face 1-1 session with Fern or Raquel.

Venue: Brattleby, Aisthorpe and Scampton Village Hall

Fee: £56.25 per 45 minute session with Fern

Fee: £45 per 45 minute session with Raquel

SESSION THREE

Skills:

Applying foundation exercises to life situations
Managing secondary issues if needed

Duration: 45 minute face-to-face 1-1 session with Fern or Raquel.

Venue: Brattleby, Aisthorpe and Scampton Village Hall

Fee: £56.25 per 45 minute session with Fern

Fee: £45 per 45 minute session with Raquel

IS THIS THE RIGHT COURSE FOR ME AND MY PUPPY?

The Foundation Course is very practical and deals with moderate issues for pups no older than one year of age. High-level issues, such as reactivity towards other dogs and people or growling and biting need more in-depth support via our Thinking-Dog Behaviour Programme.

If you would like to talk through the best course for you and your puppy, please ask me to arrange a 15 minute Free First Contact Call with Fern, our Lead Behaviourist.