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Positive Dog Training
That Builds Confidence

Positive training, that works.

Adult Dog Training Classes For Real-Life Situations

Our Life Skills training class is a 4-week course that focuses on building reliable behaviours in an enjoyable way. We use reward-based training methods proven to strengthen the bond between you and your dog while building up confidence and providing real progress.

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Our Life Skills Class can help with:

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  • Motivating your dog

  • Walking nicely on a lead 

  • Reliable recall training

  • Building focus and engagement

  • Reactivity towards other dogs 

  • Confidence building

  • Settling calmly at home

  • Adolescent dog behaviour

 

Whether you have a long time family member who needs more support or a new rescue dog who is still settling in, we can help you build confidence and improve behaviour step by step.

One-to-one Training

What Can We Help With?

Puppy Training

Our tailored one-to-one puppy training helps your puppy learn essential life skills including:

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  • Socialisation

  • Confidence building

  • Toilet training 

  • Lead walking

  • Recall foundations

  • Calm behaviour 

Adolescent Dog Training

Teenage dogs can suddenly develop frustrating behaviours. One-to-one training can help you manage:

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  • Selective hearing

  • Pulling on the lead

  • Overexcitement

  • Jumping up

  • Unreliable recall

  • Excessive barking

  • Chewing and destructive behaviour

Adult Dog Training

We work with adult dogs needing support with training, mental enrichment, confidence, or common behavioural challenges such as dog reactivity.

For owners wanting personalised support, we offer one-to-one dog training sessions for just £40 which will include a written information pack with a training plan tailored specifically to your dog’s needs.

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Dogs that can benefit the most from additional training and enrichment:

  • High energy Cocker Spaniels 

  • Intelligent Shepherd breeds 

  • Reactive dachshunds

  • Romanian rescues who are settling in

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Our coaching methods and wrap-around support are designed so that you pick up training skills and knowledge quickly. So you can use your skills and make progress in real life.​

Why Choose Poppy’s Dog School?

Positive Reinforcement 

Training should be enjoyable for both dogs and people. Our methods are force-free, reward-based, and tailored to your dog’s personality and learning style.

Building a Relationship

Positive Reinforcement 

Using reward-based training teaches your dog that good things happen around you and you are fun to be around. This positive relationship grows stronger the more training you do. This method is much less stressful for dog and people than using tools or harsh handling methods. 

Ongoing Support

Once you join one of the group classes, you will receive a training guide for each session - including background information about canine behaviour. Plus, you will have access to free support and guidance in between sessions. 

Supportive and Friendly Environment

Training should be enjoyable for both dogs and people. Our methods are force-free, reward-based, and tailored to your dog’s personality and learning style.

Training sessions are relaxed and supportive so that people and dogs can learn without stress or fear. If you have any health conditions which require adaptations to your training we can tailor sessions to your needs.

Practical Everyday Training

Training sessions focus on real-world behaviours so you can enjoy calmer walks, better recall, and improved confidence in everyday situations.

Trainer Led Dog Walks

Is your dog amazing at home but a completely different dog on a walk?

 

Dogs can get overstimulated and frustrated very quickly outside, leading to pulling on the lead, barking, lunging, jumping, failed recall & a stressed person on the other end of the lead.

 

Trainer led walks involve partitioning time in a walk for free exploration, training, playing, mental enrichment and being calm. Practising structured walks can help dogs who are overstimulated or anxious outside by providing predictability, mental enrichment, relaxation and bond building.

 

For more information about structured walks  - Read More.

Dog Training Areas We Cover

As a local dog training school, we provide services to dog owners in Newmarket and surrounding areas including:

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  • Exning

  • Red Lodge

  • Thetford

  • Burwell

  • Moulton

  • Kentford

  • Fulbourn

  • Six Mile Bottom

  • Sawston

  • Great Shelford

  • Little Abington

  • Duxford

  • Saffron Walden

  • The surrounding Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex villages

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