life skills plus

Life Skills Plus is for dogs and owners who have completed Life Skills or worked with me 1-2-1 and want to continue progressing their training.

This is your opportunity to practice real-life skills around real-life distractions.

Working alongside other owners and dogs in a controlled environment, we’ll focus on loose lead walking, recalls, stays, play, settling, engagement and lead handling skills. The goal is to build reliability where it matters most, around the things your dog encounters in everyday life.

Suitable for puppies, adolescent dogs, reactive dogs, owners with multiple dogs, and anyone wanting more opportunities to train around distractions.

Whether they’re shouting frustrated invitations to play or telling everyone to bugger off, they all need the same thing… practice.

This is proper socialisation. Learning how to exist appropriately around other dogs, people and distractions. Giving both you and your dog the skills and confidence to do more together.

There is a time for avoiding triggers, environments and situations. Sometimes that’s exactly what your dog needs. But avoidance alone isn’t training. Dogs won’t learn how to ignore other dogs if they never work around other dogs.

Using what I call the ‘amber zone’, we’ll work at a level where dogs can notice each other, stay engaged with their handler and learn to make better choices. This is where confidence, neutrality and reliability is built.

Classes are capped and booking is required. Every dog attending will already have completed foundation training with me, ensuring everyone starts from the same foundations and gets the most from the session.

Training isn’t about avoiding the world. It’s about giving your dog the skills to succeed in it.

If you’re unsure whether Life Skills Plus is right for you and your dog, just send me a message.