Unstructured Puppy Pre School...

[Dame Aussie]

We've started taking our 12 week old aussie pup to a puppy pre school run by the local vet.

The first week was pretty much just a free for all play session, the pups were let off the leash and allowed to play and run around. While it was good for our pup to socialise I was hoping for some more info and training advice. Also there's a little staffy cross who comes to the class and attacks the other puppies, we haven't let our girl off the leash anywhere near him!

We decided to give it another try and went again last night...the same thing. We won't be going back so I'm now looking for another course with a bit more structure.

Can anyone recommend anywhere good around the western suburbs of Melbourne??

Thanks!

[jenz0r]

We've started taking our 12 week old aussie pup to a puppy pre school run by the local vet.

The first week was pretty much just a free for all play session, the pups were let off the leash and allowed to play and run around. While it was good for our pup to socialise I was hoping for some more info and training advice. Also there's a little staffy cross who comes to the class and attacks the other puppies, we haven't let our girl off the leash anywhere near him!

We decided to give it another try and went again last night...the same thing. We won't be going back so I'm now looking for another course with a bit more structure.

Can anyone recommend anywhere good around the western suburbs of Melbourne??

Thanks!

that sounds like a horrible experience!

maybe you could enquire at local vets and ask what the classes involve. our classes (not melb unfortunately) are great and the pups stay on lead on their mats the whole time, and at the end one at a time is allowed off lead for a 2 min walk/sniff around the vet clinic then goes back on lead.

each week we learned different commands with food, and the trainer comes around to each owner/s to show you how to do it then you get practise time. you get to demonstrate to the class how well you learned it the next week! they also taught us about grooming, health, etc etc.

hope you find a great class cos it really did help with our pup who is a handful at times

[Cosmolo]

Whereabouts in the western suburbs are you? We run puppy school at Sth Melbourne- not sure if this would be too far? You are welcome to come along and look at the current class to give you an idea about what we cover- its quite in depth in comparison to other puppy schools and the puppy play is heavily supervised with lots of instruction about dog body language and if, when and how to intervene!

Alternately i would contact Four Paws K9 Training and find out the locations of puppy classes run by them. :D

[Rhi*Jak*Ed]

We've started taking our 12 week old aussie pup to a puppy pre school run by the local vet.

The first week was pretty much just a free for all play session, the pups were let off the leash and allowed to play and run around. While it was good for our pup to socialise I was hoping for some more info and training advice. Also there's a little staffy cross who comes to the class and attacks the other puppies, we haven't let our girl off the leash anywhere near him!

We decided to give it another try and went again last night...the same thing. We won't be going back so I'm now looking for another course with a bit more structure.

Can anyone recommend anywhere good around the western suburbs of Melbourne??

Thanks!

that sounds like a horrible experience!

maybe you could enquire at local vets and ask what the classes involve. our classes (not melb unfortunately) are great and the pups stay on lead on their mats the whole time, and at the end one at a time is allowed off lead for a 2 min walk/sniff around the vet clinic then goes back on lead.

each week we learned different commands with food, and the trainer comes around to each owner/s to show you how to do it then you get practise time. you get to demonstrate to the class how well you learned it the next week! they also taught us about grooming, health, etc etc.

hope you find a great class cos it really did help with our pup who is a handful at times

That's what ours was like - all pups on their mat on a lead. And only certain pups got to play off lead as a reward at the end of it. I wouldn't feel too comfortable with a puppy free-for-all each lesson! Good luck with finding somewhere else :-)