Puppy School: Basic Training

Early learning schools are a vital part of helping a puppy develop and grow alongside their owners in a healthy, confident and respectful way. Our expert team provides puppy dog training for dogs aged between eight and sixteen weeks after they've received their first vaccinations. We offer a comprehensive course to ensure your puppy learns and retains basic commands, including: 

• Come 

• Sit 

• Stay 

• No 

• Wait 

• Heel 

• Down 

Preschool for Essential Socialisation

Enrolling your puppy in one of our preschool classes is a great way to introduce them to other dogs of the same age and people in a safe environment. Early socialisation for your puppy is essential to develop their confidence, reduce anxiety, and help them become more comfortable around dogs, people and in different environments.

Puppy Preschool Classes to Address Issues

It's common for puppies to be extremely excitable, which can lead them to exhibit excessive and immature behaviour. Enrolling your young dog in our puppy school allows our expert trainers to teach them using respectful, compassionate techniques to remedy common issues, including:  

• Biting and mouthing people and other dogs 

• Toilet training indoors 

• Destructive chewing on furniture and belongings 

• Excessive barking and whining 

• Jumping up at people 

Puppy Training: Using Positive Reinforcement

Our clinic offers a puppy training regimen focused on reward-based methods, as we believe this encourages more effective learning. We bring a firm but tender approach to encourage positive learning in our classes, ensuring your puppy feels no anxiety about wrongdoing in the future. The benefits of positive reinforcement include: 

• Forming a stronger bond between puppies and owners 

• Encourages puppies to focus on what they can do, rather than on mistakes 

• Builds confidence and enthusiasm for learning 

• Strengthen communication skills 

• Makes it easier to teach new commands 

• Encourages mutual respect 

Our Expert Trainers

We bring years of experience working with owners and their dogs to help build lasting relationships between them and our clinic. Each of our trainers brings knowledge and techniques that encourage good behaviour in puppies through reward-based training, which leads to a happy, healthy pet and home life.

Early training is a vital part of puppy ownership, helping your pet live a happy and well-adjusted life. The team at Hobsons Bay Vet Clinic in Newport offers classes for puppies to help them through their younger years, so contact us online today to book a spot.