Online Puppy School

Help your puppy thrive from day one

The first few months shape the dog your puppy becomes. This online puppy school teaches you how to raise a confident, well-mannered puppy at home: toilet training, puppy biting, sleeping through the night, good manners, socialisation and the beginnings of obedience, all in one place, at your own pace.

Who it’s for

Anyone with a new puppy, or about to bring one home. First-time owners get a step-by-step plan from day one; experienced owners get a refresher built around how puppies actually learn. It also suits families who can’t get to a weekly puppy class, or who want more depth than a class can give in one hour a week.

What you’ll learn

• Toilet training in two weeks: the do’s, the don’ts, and the mistakes that cause accidents
• Puppy biting, nipping, chewing and crying: why it happens and what to do instead of saying “no”
• Sleeping arrangements and how to settle your puppy at night
• Socialisation done right: sounds, objects, people and other dogs, and the difference between play and bullying
• Canine body language, so you can read your puppy and respond the right way
• Basic obedience: sit, down, stay, come, leave it and the start of loose-lead walking
• Life skills: patience, impulse control, polite greetings, happy alone time and confinement taught in a positive way
• Walks: how to start them, and how to build focus around distractions
• Mental stimulation, playtime rules, and preventing destructive and attention-seeking behaviours

What’s inside

Four sections, each with short video lessons, fact sheets and homework. Section 1 sets up learning, toilet training, sleep, the first obedience lesson, sound socialisation and first walks. Section 2 covers canine behaviour, meeting other dogs, play, lesson two of obedience and leash manners. Section 3 adds impulse control, preventing and correcting unwanted behaviours, polite greetings, confidence-building confinement exercises and focus around distractions. Section 4 brings calmness, tricks and games, playtime rules, destructive and attention-seeking behaviours, and proofing your cues.

How you’ll train

Everything in this course runs on the Asset Method: work out what your puppy values right now, whether that’s food, play, your attention or getting outside, and use it to pay for the behaviour you want. Puppies learn all the time, not just in training sessions, so you’ll also learn how to arrange your home and your day so that the right choices are the easy ones. Each skill is built in small steps using the three D’s of dog training, distance, duration and distractions, so your puppy keeps succeeding as life gets busier.

Why online puppy school works

Puppies don’t wait for Tuesday at 6pm. Questions come up at 11pm on day one, and the habits that matter are formed at home, not in a hall. This online course is there when you need it, lets you rewatch any step, and gives you 12 months of access so you can revisit lessons as your puppy grows into a teenager. Every lesson is short enough to fit around a puppy’s nap.

Try the first lesson free, pay once, train at your own pace.