Puppy Education Perth

Is your puppy training you?
Struggling to manage puppy and child pandemonium?
Are you a first time dog owner who needs to know the basics
Have you just adopted a rescue dog and want to ensure you set up your new pup for success
Struggling to get you dog to listen to you or to focus

If you answer yes to any of these questions, let us help you understand you dog better through effective and positive training and development.

Having a dog is a wonderful thing, a soul mate to share moments of your life with, adventures, laughs and occasional tears, your pup will be there no matter what, for everything life throws at you – what a joy! But…..

Unfortunately beautifully mannered dogs just don’t happen… raising a puppy or training and managing an adult dog is not effortless. Pups that you can happily share your life with, take everywhere and enjoy, take time and devotion. But with a little know how and planning you can learn how to understand and support your pooch, preventing problems from occurring along the way.

We have a number of options that may suit you and your puppy, we offer a one on one puppy consultation, that can be tailored to suit your and your puppy’s needs. Click here to go to our puppy training page.

Alternatively, we have a structured group class program commencing with puppy school through to obedience classes.

What to do?

Puppy School – approx. 8-13weeks
Research shows that puppies have clear developmental stages from around 3-12 weeks of age is a key period of learning, a time when puppies are developing social relationships with other pups or humans, learning how to manage arousal and emotionally regulate and understanding the world in general.

Click here for Swanbourne Puppy School or here for the Floreat Vet Puppy School.

Obedience Classes – 20 weeks –adult
The more opportunities we provide out dog to learn, work out problems, use their fabulous brains, the more likely your pup is to make good decisions.

Obedience provides the chance to continue to build your relationship and to connect to your dog, to embed good manners and life skills, in a fun social environment. Providing the foundations for future training in a wide variety of specialist areas such as, retrieving, tracking, agility, doggy dancing, herding, scent work.

These classes are ideal for those who have adolescent pups ready for a new challenge or older dogs who want to improve on the basics. These classes continue to build on prior knowledge, incorporating fun group activities, teaching handler and pup how to focus in high distraction environments.
All of our training uses positive reinforcement techniques.

Click here for obedience classes

Separation Anxiety in Dogs

Despite this issue being a problem that most puppies encounter, no puppy is born with separation anxiety. The anxiety is triggered in the beginning stages of development when we used to believe we should let the dogs ‘cry it out’. As a result later in life, the dog has an inability to emotionally regulate and can present in behaviours such as the dog crying or barking unnecessarily, chewing things in its environment, destruction, digging. This is what we define as separation anxiety.

However, this does not mean that independent puppies and dogs are spared from such bad behaviour. They too are prone to behaviour we don’t like but it does not necessarily translate to separation anxiety.

We believe that correctly educating and training your dog right from its young age has enormous advantages.

Top Things to Remember When Acquiring a Puppy

A puppy has three stages in its life which include:

1) First circle of development – puppy stage- Between 8-24 weeks. This stage is the most crucial for learning and teaching.

2) Second circle of development -Between 20 weeks and 12 months. This stage entails cheeky teenage development period.

3) Third circle of development – around the 24weeks to 12months of age. This stage is the consequence phase and must only be introduced when the first and second circles have been totally developed.

4) Adult: Between 12 months-15 years. At this age, the dog is fully developed if it has the right emotional and educational development.

Always remember that your puppy should only be allowed to develop behaviours, which will be accepted at their adult stage. It is also important to note that each puppy is unique and their needs could also vary. Hence, what’s good for one puppy may not be so for others.

Right from their acquisition, puppies need an understanding environment. They need to learn how to emotionally regulate first and foremost. Some of the undesirable traits that you may witness in your puppy are biting, jumping and chewing anything. However, it is possible to get rid of all these undesirable traits by educating them correctly, proper communication with your puppy and good training. If all these are done correctly, it will be a benefit to both you and the puppy which may lead to a sweet life at home.

Training your puppy could be the best investment to securing the next 15 years through ensuring that your family’s happiness is maintained owning a confident dog. Remember, we have to teach the puppy how to fit into our world and also meet them halfway with their communication.

Do You Need Toys for Puppies?

It is common for people to purchase several toys during acquisition of a puppy thinking that they will make its life interesting. Some toys may come with the puppy and this will have the scent of their mum. These are worth keeping as their emotional regulation toys. Squeaky toys however, can contribute to a lack of bite inhibition. This can teach the puppy to bite harder on our skin, something we really want to avoid. Puppies do need things to chew on so set your environment up that has removed temptation and give them outlets of specific toys to chew on.

From my experience equipping your puppy with a rope bone or alternatively a rubber toy like a Kong has proved to be helpful. You may also acquire teething rusks which are found in pet shops in a wide range to cater for all breeds.

Best Puppy Tips

One of the best ways to rectify your puppy’s behaviour is correcting it right where you caught it doing any act which is not acceptable. Doing this with consistency will help your puppy to get to know which behaviours are not admirable. This process doesn’t work, we need to teach the pup good well before any consequence comes in

You could have been misinformed that punishing your puppy by keeping it in the laundry or any other place is an effective form of punishment for its bad behaviour. The reason this approach is not suitable is that a puppy might not be in a position to establishing the link between such form of punishments and its act of bad behaviour that you want it to stop. You need to teach the puppy good before bad, it should be a very yes environment for the puppy so the puppy understands how to exist in our world.

Best Training for Your Puppy

Most Problems you are likely to experience with dogs are a result of misleading information from other sources. Contrary, Neri provides you with only the correct information on how to better your family relationship with the dog thereby clearing out the confusion that could have caused due to the plenty myths and misconceptions that most dog owners deal with.

The most crucial moment is at a puppy's young age. At this age, the puppy needs the right handling and conditioning to prepare it for its future behaviour. Neri or Lisa could be quite helpful when it comes to settlement of your newly acquired puppy at home in terms of setting up where the dog will sleep, feed and training it to use the toilet.

Neri also comes up with a suitable program that accommodates your interests so that you are not left out of the training thereby establishing proper communication and good handling of your puppy.

If your puppy if fond of jumping, biting and chewing then don’t worry because these acts can be avoided. Such behaviour should be addressed as fast as possible upon arising because you don’t want your puppy to develop into an adult with bad behaviour. Never forget that a poorly behaved adult dog can be the result of an uneducated puppy.

With Neri’s 90min consultation plan, you are provided with good lessons on training your puppy right at the comfort of your home, which creates positive results. This could be the best way to get to learn because training your dog is much easier with the help of a qualified professional in the right environment where the dog will spend its life.

Sometimes you may need follow-up sessions in the preceding months with your dog which depends on the state of your puppy and the family situation. If the need for follows up arises, Neri or Lisa will discuss with you during the consultation time.

Puppy preschool classes run through Dog whispering are a great add on to this as well.

With over 13 years of experience in dog training and consultancy, Neri and Lisa is definitely the best trainer who understands what is suitable for both the owner and the young puppy. Neri or Lisa will take you through the right procedures for handling and condition your puppy in real situations thereby resulting in having a happy and confident trained dog.

After birth, the next 18 weeks are quite influential in your puppy’s life and therefore only correct handling and training is required in its home environment to avoid messing up with the puppy. In all circumstances as a dog owner, you should take advice from verified professionals only with regards to training and care for your puppy to march with its temperament and character.

You should contact Neri for clarification with the truth on some of the misconceptions that surround socialization. Neri will yield the best results and in the best way and most logical way that will ensure that you and your family remain properly educated. Do not hesitate to find out what could be suitable for you, your home and your puppy. Here are some of the training exercises that Neri specializes in:

● Puppy Emotional regulation
● Puppy toilet training
● Suitable routines development
● Developing sleeping and feeding plan
● Helping with puppy crying problems
● Establishing boundaries in home environment
● Addressing jumping on people problems
● Biting, nipping and mouthing issues
● Chewing issues
● Over-excitement issues
● Socialization and proper conditioning in practical conditions
● Lead manners
● Solving digging and destructive behaviours
● Ending unessential barking
● Neri plans the training exercise to benefit you, your family and to suit the environment and your lifestyle.
● Neri or Lisa teaches owners alongside their children in training
● Neri or Lisa informs you on the best preventive measures available
● Neri or Lisa comes right to your home in any Perth suburbs.

You should never forget Dog Whispering philosophy that with an emotional balance, good education, communication and socialising you can bring up a well rounded dog. If your dog is already suffering behaviour issues due to trauma or inadequate education, No need to worry because such issues can be rectified to make the future better since you can't alter the past.