Develop Your Dog puppy and gundog training courses:
An overview of the puppy and gundog training courses on offer with Develop Your Dog.
Puppy Training Courses
<6 Months Old
Our puppy training courses are suitable for complete beginners with puppies once they have had their vaccinations and are under 6 months old.
- Introduction to the clicker
- Handling skills
- Motivating your dog
- Recall
- Focus and Attention
- Introduction to Whistles
- Play
- Targets
- Settling
Puppy Graduate Courses
Puppy Graduates follows on from the Puppy Course and aims to progress the skills already learnt by adding duration to these behaviours with added distractions.
- Heelwork
- Targets
- Directions
- Retrieve Patterns
- Building Duration on Behaviours
- Focus and attention games
- Proofing and Generalisation
Gundog Training Courses Foundation Skills
Our gundog training courses are suitable for dogs, any working breed, who want to participate in a group, who want to progress on from the puppy courses. Ideally, your dog should be able to walk on a loose lead, have begun retrieving, got a reasonable recall, and started some stay training.
Course content includes:
- Marked Retrieves
- Stays
- Steadiness
- Whistle work
- Hunting
- Directions
- Stop Whistle
- Heelwork
Progressive Gundog Skills –
Gundog Club Grades 1/2
 Course content includes:
Adding Distance and Duration onto:
- Marked and Memory Retrieves
- Stays
- Steadiness
- Advancing Whistle work
- Hunting
- Directions
- Stop Whistle
- Heelwork
1.5hr lessons.
Intermediate Gundog Skills
Gundog Club Grade 3
Course content includes:
- Heelwork with distractions
- Stop Whistle
- Marked, memory and blind retrieves
- Working the dogs at bigger distances
- Jumping
- Water work
- Handling at distance
- Walk ups and much more …
Recall and Heelwork Training
We will be looking in depth at teaching you and your dog the skills of walking loosely on a lead and establishing a solid recall:-
Course content includes:
- Improving your connection with your dog
- How to motivate your dog in different environments
- How to deal with distractions
- Establishing solid foundations
- Recall Action Plan
- Conditioning a new Recall
Gundog Training Courses
Have you got a gundog breed at home? Would you like to train him/her for the shooting field, or would you just like to train your dog to a high level? I can help with these scenarios.
Puppy Training Courses
When you first bring a puppy home it can be very exciting but daunting all at the same time, so I am on hand to come and guide you through those key canine development stages to ensure that your puppy grows up to be well-mannered.