PERSONALISED PUPPY TRAINING

BUILD THE LIFE SKILLS THAT MAKE EVERYDAY LEARNING EASIER

Puppy Life Skills is a personalised four-session programme designed to help your puppy build the foundations for calmness, confidence, focus, disengagement, and coping with everyday life.

 Across four 55-minute sessions, we’ll focus on the skills that matter most for you and your puppy, with six months of online learning and support alongside your training.

Happy older Border Collie puppy representing Puppy Life Skills

LIFE SKILLS BEFORE OBEDIENCE

Puppies can learn plenty of behaviours, but everyday life becomes much easier when the underlying skills are there too.

Puppy Life Skills focuses on things like calmness, confidence, engagement, disengagement, frustration tolerance, and arousal regulation, helping your puppy cope better with the situations they meet day to day.

The aim isn’t simply to teach your puppy what to do. It’s to help them develop the skills that make learning, settling, adapting, and making good choices easier as they grow.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

Puppy Life Skills combines personalised one-to-one training with online learning and between-session support, so you can keep building useful foundations as your puppy grows.

PERSONALISED TRAINING

FOUR 55-MINUTE SESSIONS

Each session is tailored to you and your puppy, focusing on the areas that will make the biggest difference in everyday life.

INCLUDED

  • Four personalised 55-minute training sessions 
  • Training tailored to your puppy and priorities 
  • Practical guidance you can use between sessions

BUILD THE FOUNDATIONS

PRACTICAL PUPPY LIFE SKILLS

We’ll work on the underlying skills that support calmer behaviour, better learning, and more confidence in everyday situations.

INCLUDED

  • Calmness and arousal regulation 
  • Confidence and engagement 
  • Disengagement and frustration tolerance

SUPPORT BETWEEN SESSIONS

6 MONTHS OF ONLINE ACCESS AND SUPPORT

You’ll have access to the comprehensive Calm & Confident Puppy Course and private online support alongside your one-to-one training.

INCLUDED

  • Calm & Confident Puppy Course 
  • Private Support Hub 
  • 6 months of online access and support 

HOW PUPPY LIFE SKILLS WORKS

The programme is designed to build skills gradually, with each session shaped around your puppy, your priorities, and what will be most useful in everyday life.

START WITH YOUR PUPPY

We’ll look at what’s going well, where you’re getting stuck, and which underlying skills will make the biggest difference for you and your puppy.

BUILD THE FOUNDATIONS

Across the sessions, we’ll work on practical life skills such as calmness, confidence, engagement, disengagement, frustration tolerance, and arousal regulation.

PRACTISE BETWEEN SESSIONS

You’ll have clear guidance on what to work on between sessions, with online learning and support to help you keep progressing.

ADAPT AS YOUR PUPPY GROWS

We’ll review what’s changing, adjust the training where needed, and keep building the skills that will help your puppy cope with everyday life more confidently.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

Puppy Life Skills focuses on the underlying abilities that help your puppy cope, learn, and make better choices in everyday life.

CALMNESS AND AROUSAL REGULATION

FIND A BETTER BALANCE

Help your puppy learn to settle, recover more easily from excitement, and move between activity and calm more successfully.

CONFIDENCE AND OPTIMISM

FACE THE WORLD WITH MORE CONFIDENCE

Support your puppy in approaching new experiences more positively, while giving them the space and skills to cope when something feels unfamiliar.

ENGAGEMENT AND DISENGAGEMENT

SHIFT ATTENTION MORE EASILY

Build your puppy’s ability to connect with you, shift their attention, and move away from things that might otherwise become difficult to ignore.

FRUSTRATION TOLERANCE

COPE WHEN THINGS DON’T HAPPEN STRAIGHT AWAY

Help your puppy develop more patience and flexibility when they can’t immediately have, reach, or do the thing they want.

IS PUPPY LIFE SKILLS RIGHT FOR YOU?

Puppy Life Skills is designed for owners who want personalised help building the foundations that support calmer behaviour, better learning, and more confidence in everyday life.

PUPPY LIFE SKILLS MAY SUIT YOU IF…

  • You want personalised training tailored to your puppy 
  • You’d like help with calmness, confidence, or focus 
  • Your puppy finds it hard to disengage or settle 
  • You want to build frustration tolerance and arousal regulation 
  • You’d like practical guidance to work on between sessions 
  • You value having online learning and support alongside your training 

WHAT TO KNOW BEFORE YOU JOIN

  • The programme includes four personalised 55-minute sessions 
  • Your puppy must be under six months old when you enrol 
  • Standalone Puppy Life Skills sessions should be completed within three months 
  • Six months of online course access and Private Support Hub support are included 
  • Suitability, timing, location, delivery format, and any applicable travel charge are confirmed before payment

YOUR PUPPY LIFE SKILLS PROGRAMME

£425

FOUR 55-MINUTE PERSONALISED SESSIONS

6 MONTHS OF ONLINE ACCESS AND SUPPORT

Including:

  • Four personalised Puppy Life Skills sessions 
  • Training tailored to your puppy and priorities
  •  Comprehensive Calm & Confident Puppy Course
  •  Private Support Hub 
  • 6 months of online access and support

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

  1. Register your interest 
  2. We’ll confirm suitability, timing, location, delivery format, and any applicable travel charge 
  3. Once everything is agreed, we’ll arrange your first Puppy Life Skills session 
  4. You’ll receive access to the online course and Private Support Hub alongside your training

You're welcome to get in touch by email or call 07527 450289 if you'd like help in deciding whether this is the right fit.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Puppy Life Skills is for puppies under six months old at enrolment. The programme is designed to build useful foundations during early puppyhood, before progressing into more advanced training later on.

The programme includes four personalised 55-minute training sessions.

Puppy Life Skills sessions are normally delivered at Clyne Gardens, Blackpill, Swansea, with Zoom and selected real-world locations also available where appropriate. Home visits may be available by prior agreement and can be subject to a travel charge.

Standalone Puppy Life Skills sessions should normally be completed within three months.

It includes four personalised training sessions, six months of access to the Calm & Confident Puppy Course, and access to the Private Support Hub for between-session support.

The programme focuses on underlying life skills such as calmness, confidence, engagement, disengagement, frustration tolerance, and arousal regulation, with the exact focus tailored to your puppy and your priorities.

Yes. You’ll have access to the Private Support Hub alongside your training, as well as six months of access to the Calm & Confident Puppy Course.

No. Puppy Life Skills is a personalised service, so you’ll register your interest first. We’ll confirm suitability, timing, location, delivery format, and the total price before payment.

A travel charge may apply for home visits or other locations outside the standard delivery arrangements. Any applicable charge will be confirmed before payment.

Happy older Border Collie puppy representing getting started with Puppy Life Skills

BUILD THE FOUNDATIONS YOUR PUPPY CAN KEEP GROWING FROM

Register your interest in Puppy Life Skills and we’ll confirm whether the programme is the right fit for you and your puppy, along with timing, location, delivery format, and any applicable travel charge. You’ll then have a clear next step for starting personalised training and building the skills that matter most in everyday life.

Prefer to talk it through? Call 07527 450289.

REGISTER YOUR INTEREST

Tell us a little about you and your puppy, and we’ll get back to you to confirm whether the Puppy Life Skills Programme is the right fit and talk through the next steps.

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