Senior Puppy Enrolment

Senior Puppy training is for puppies between the ages of 13 weeks and 6 months of age at the time of starting.

This is a crucial time in your puppy’s life to ensure proper socialisation skills are developed and nurtured. Our program is designed to help puppies build calm behaviours around other dogs and people, learn strategies for coping with potentially scary things (like vacuum cleaners and hairdryers), and expand their exposure to novel items.  Through positive reinforcement techniques, we focus on teaching essential life skills such as greeting people and other dogs politely, and we expand on skills already learned during the Puppy Skills program.

The Senior Puppy program will cover things such as:

  • Good manners

  • Teaching calm

  • Games to teach your dog how to focus

  • Stand

  • Stay

  • Leave

  • Give up items

  • Go to mat/bed

  • Recall/Come when called

  • Reading dog body language

  • Dog to dog interactions

  • Environmental enrichment

  • Strategies for jumping (if needed)

  • Strategies for puppy biting (if needed)

  • Strategies for toilet training (if needed)

  • How to prevent problem behaviours

  • Co-operative Care

  • How dogs learn

  • Socialisation

  • Loose lead walking

  • and MUCH MORE

Training your dog is the first step to a lifelong bond—join us now!

Weekly Classes
Cost: $210
Duration: 1 hour
Program Length: 6 weeks
Location: Croydon Primary School
29 Croydon Road, Croydon
(Undercover)

Prerequisite: Must have completed our Puppy Skills program or another approved program, and be fully vaccinated.

Additional Information:
Puppies who show aggression on lead are not suitable for group training sessions. Please contact us prior to booking if this applies to you.

If you have not completed our Puppy Skills program, the program for you is Smart Choice 1.

Next Program Start Dates:
Saturday 3 May 2025 (8am)
Saturday 14 June 2025 (8am)