Your puppy is only a puppy once.

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Those first few months are about so much more than teaching a puppy to sit, drop or walk nicely on a lead. During this important stage of development, they're learning how to feel about the world around them.

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Every new experience helps shape their confidence, resilience and ability to cope with life's challenges. These early experiences influence the dog they become and the relationship you'll share for years to come.

 

That's why the right Puppy School matters.

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At Goin' Muttz, we've reimagined Puppy School to focus on what matters most during this important stage of development - for both puppies and the people raising them.

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Experience That Shapes Our Approach

With more than 9 years of professional experience, a commitment to ongoing education, and a background training and assessing assistance dogs, I've completely redesigned the Goin' Muttz Raising Puppies program to reflect what puppies - and the people raising them - truly need.

 

Training and assessing assistance dogs has reinforced something I see every day:

 

The dogs that thrive aren't simply the ones who know the most cues.

They're the dogs who can confidently navigate unfamiliar environments, recover from challenges, stay engaged with their handler and continue thinking when life becomes unpredictable.

 

Those qualities begin in puppyhood.

 

Everything we do at Goin' Muttz is designed to help puppies develop those same lifelong foundations.

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Our Puppy School is Different Because We Go Deeper

We'll absolutely teach the start to practical skills like recall, loose lead walking and polite manners.

But we don't begin there.

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Before we focus on what we want puppies to do, we focus on how they feel and how they learn. A puppy who feels safe, curious and engaged is far more capable of learning than one who feels overwhelmed or uncertain. That's why every activity in our Puppy School has a purpose.

Through carefully designed games, exploration, problem solving and positive, science-based training, puppies learn through cause and effect. They discover that their own choices create positive outcomes, building confidence, resilience and a genuine love of learning.

Rather than simply teaching behaviours, we're helping puppies become adaptable learners who can confidently navigate the world around them.

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Just as importantly, we'll teach you how to understand your puppy - how to read their body language, recognise what they're communicating and support them through new experiences with confidence.

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When those foundations are in place, teaching the obedience skills becomes the easy part.

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Every Puppy Is Different

No two puppies are the same. Some puppies arrive ready to take on the world, while others need a little more time and support to feel comfortable in new situations.

 

Raising Puppies is designed to meet every puppy where they are. We celebrate their individual strengths while helping them build confidence at their own pace. We don't expect perfection. We simply want every puppy to leave more confident than when they arrived.

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What You'll Learn Together

Puppy School isn't just about training your puppy.

It's about giving you the knowledge and confidence to guide them through the most unfluential developmental stages of their life.

Together we'll cover:

• How puppies learn and process information

• Reading canine body language and communication

• Building confidence, resilience and calm

• Appropriate socialisation

• Focus and engagement

• Loose lead walking foundations

• Recall foundations

• Toilet training

• Puppy biting and mouthing

• Independence and preventing separation-related issues

• Mental enrichment

• Everyday manners

• Troubleshooting common puppy challenges

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What's Included

✔ 7.5 hours of practical, hands-on training over five weeks

✔ Small class sizes for personalised coaching

✔ Classes held at Hall Veterinary Surgery

✔ Lifetime access to the Goin' Muttz Raising Puppies Portal

✔ Step-by-step video tutorials

✔ Training guides and practical resources

✔ Ongoing support throughout the course

Your Raising Puppies Portal means the learning continues long after class ends, with video demonstrations and resources to help you confidently practise at home.

 

Our Philosophy

We don't believe the goal of Puppy School is simply to raise a puppy who can sit on cue.

We believe it's to raise a dog who feels safe exploring the world, enjoys learning, is calm and confident in their decisions,  can recover from challenges and looks to their person for guidance.

 

Because when confidence comes first, learning follows.

When resilience is nurtured, challenges become opportunities.

When curiosity is encouraged, the world becomes something to explore rather than something to fear.

 

That's the kind of companion we're helping you raise. One that's ready for whatever life brings.