Puppy School Zetland and Green Square

Yes. Zetland is taking bookings, at Dogs in Town on Epsom Road. Four weeks, one session a week, capped at ten puppies and matched by size.

Start dates vary by venue, so check the booking page for what is running next, or book a free meet and greet and we will tell you what suits your puppy's age.

Two things, and neither waits on the next Zetland start date.

The one to one work happens at your address regardless of the venue. A trainer comes to your flat and works on your lift, your balcony, your neighbours and your routine. In an apartment that is the part that fixes the actual problems.

The group class also runs at Paddington, about ten minutes away, with a rolling start. Or book a free meet and greet and we will tell you what is running next at Zetland.

It is one of the larger rooms we use, which is exactly why we hold it. The inner south is full of toy and small dogs and also full of Labradors, Retrievers and Bernese, and a room that only comfortably fits one of those groups is not much use. Every class we run is capped at ten and matched by size regardless of the venue, so your Labrador is never learning next to a Chihuahua.

Substantially, and it is the main reason the one to one session happens at your address rather than ours. A puppy in a house with a back door gets hours a day where nothing is expected of them. A puppy in a Zetland flat gets none of that unless it is built in deliberately, and that gap is behind most of the separation problems, barking and lift trouble we are called about here.

None of it is a character flaw in the dog and all of it is trainable. It just has to be taught on purpose, because the building will not teach it for you.

There are four levels and the current prices are all on the puppy school booking page, along with exactly what each one includes.

The four weeks of class are identical at every level. What you are choosing between is how much one to one time you get in your own home, how long you keep the online course, and how directly you can reach us afterwards. Most families land on the second level, which is where a session at home and the full course access switch on.

Graduation is the middle of the job, not the end of it. The four weeks cover the busiest part of the socialisation window, and that window stays open until six months, so the work carries on after the class ends. The next thing coming at you is adolescence, and that is where most owners get caught out.

You keep lifetime access to our community and to Ask Luke, our round the clock question service, with no message cap at any level. From Silver up the online course carries on through the weeks that follow, and at the higher levels you still have sessions in the bank for when something new turns up at seven months.

Yes. The entry level is the four weeks of class with community support and Public-level Ask Luke. It does not include the online course, and plenty of people start there.

Worth knowing what you are trading off. Class is one hour a week in a room. Everything that actually goes wrong happens at your front door, in your hallway and on your street, and that is what the session at home is for. If budget is the reason, start where you can and step up later rather than not starting.

You have missed the group class, not the boat. The class has to finish by around sixteen weeks because the puppies in it need to be close in age and size. Your socialisation window stays open until six months, so there is still real work to do.

Private Puppy Training is the same program with the group class swapped for more sessions in your own home. Past thirty two weeks it is Adult Dog Training and Behaviourism. Both are on the site.

Yes. On Puppy School, home sessions start at Silver. On Private Puppy Training and Adult Dog Training and Behaviourism, every session is at your address. A trainer comes to you and works on your setup, your routine and the behaviour that is actually happening where you live, which is almost never the same as what happens in a training room.

We cover Sydney within roughly a forty five minute drive of the Harbour Bridge. That takes in the eastern suburbs, inner west, lower and upper north shore, northern beaches and south Sydney. Only the group class brings you to a venue.

Yes, and we would rather you did. The meet and greet is fifteen minutes, free, and there is nothing to sign at the end of it.

Bring the questions you feel silly asking. Most of what people are worried about at eight weeks is completely normal and takes about ninety seconds to answer, and knowing that before you spend anything is worth more to us than a booking made by someone who is not sure.