Puppies
Puppies
Time to ditch the tradition!
Traditional puppy classes focused on teaching sits, stays, and downs in sterile settings, but as our understanding of canine development has evolved, we now know that building confidence, resilience, and real-life coping skills lays a far stronger foundation for raising a well-rounded, emotionally balanced adult dog — and that’s what truly helps in the long run.
At the heart of our Puppy Confidence Course lies a foundation built not on outdated obedience models, but on modern, evidence-based understanding of canine development. We're proud to be inspired by the work of Kristina Spaulding and her Unlocking Resilience Mastercourse, which deepens our understanding of how puppies build emotional resilience — not just through training cues, but through real experiences that shape the brain and nervous system.
Resilience is the ability to bounce back from stress, to adapt, and to stay emotionally regulated in the face of change. We combine behavioural science with compassion, helping us move beyond traditional classes and into a more holistic, relationship-based approach. We're not just teaching puppies to “sit” — we're helping them learn how to cope, how to trust, and how to thrive in a complex world.
Through this course, we’re bringing that science to life in practical, meaningful ways for both puppies and their people.
🐾 Puppy Confidence Course
Helping You Build a Resilient, Confident Companion from the Ground Up
Our Puppy Confidence Course is unlike the standard sit-down-and-stay puppy class. We've designed a thoughtful, interactive experience that nurtures your puppy’s body, brain, and bond with you — setting them up to grow into a well-rounded, confident adult dog.
🐾What Makes This Course Different?
At the heart of our course is a bespoke confidence-building environment, packed with exciting yet gentle challenges tailored specifically for puppies. Your puppy will have the opportunity to explore:
🛤 Walkways, bridges, and ramps
🔄 Tyres to step through and tunnels to crawl through
🐕 Lead walking zones
🗣 A dedicated recall pen for safe practice
🕊 Wait stations for building impulse control
🛋 Two settle zones to practice calm observation
This is more than just socialisation — this is enrichment with purpose.
🐾Why Proprioception Matters
Proprioception is your puppy’s awareness of their own body in space — how they place their feet, how they balance, and how they adjust to uneven or moving surfaces. Just like toddlers learning to walk, puppies need time and safe opportunities to learn how to move with confidence.
Helping a puppy develop body awareness:
Reduces clumsiness and hesitation
Builds confidence in novel environments
Improves coordination and balance
Lowers reactivity to movement, surfaces, and unpredictable stimuli
When a puppy knows what their body is doing, they feel more secure — and that security translates into calmer behaviour and greater adaptability later in life.
🐾Building Trust Through Teamwork
Navigating our course isn’t just for the puppy — it’s a chance for you both to learn how to move together, communicate clearly, and trust one another.
As you guide your puppy over the bridge, through the tunnel, or around the lead walking zone, you're not just teaching them “how” — you're showing them that you’re a team. Every pause, every cue, every success builds a stronger relationship and reinforces that their person is a safe and reliable guide through the world.
🐾Calm Around Canines
We've deliberately designed the course to include settle areas and wait stations, where puppies can learn to sit calmly and watch other dogs work around them. This is a powerful skill.
Why?
Dogs that can watch without reacting become more stable in stimulating environments.
Observing helps puppies learn from each other.
Being okay with doing nothing is as important as learning a new trick.
It’s one of the first steps toward a dog who can handle cafes, vets, busy paths, or just your neighbour’s dog walking past without a meltdown.
From Confidence to Resilience
We believe that early learning should prepare dogs not just to follow cues, but to be emotionally robust, adaptable, and calm when life gets unpredictable.
That’s why our course focuses on:
Real-life foundations (not just cues)
Emotional regulation
Confidence without overwhelm
Relationship-based learning
Standard puppy classes often focus on sit, down, and come — and while those are useful, they mean very little if your dog is too overwhelmed, fearful, or distracted to hear you.
We start with confidence, calmness, and connection — because when those things are in place, the rest flows naturally.
Ready to Build a Braver Pup?
Whether your puppy is already bold and curious, or a little more cautious and reserved, our Puppy Confidence Course gives them the tools to succeed — at their pace, with your support.
Join us and give your puppy the gift of true confidence — in their body, their world, and in you.
📍 Rolling course. Join anytime. No more waiting for a puppy course to begin.
🐾 6 weeks £150 🐾
PARKER'S PUPPY PACKAGE
Parker's Puppy Package is the first place to start your puppy journey. Starting even before your puppy arrives home this package arms you with knowledge on crate set ups and what toys and food to buy.
The first 4 weeks is a critical period for their learning development. If your vaccinations are later or if your puppy has medical conditions then this is prefect, you have 1 to 1 sessions in your own home. You have 2 packages to choose from;
Positive Pupppy Pack + 2 sessions £50
Problem Prevention Pack + 4 sessions £8
Environmental socialisation is paramount. When booking these sessions and if your puppy is 9 weeks plus you have the opportunity to bring puppy along and watch others navigate the confidence course. Safe exposure is better than no exposure.
What they do or don't learn in this critical learning stage will influence future behaviour.
Parkers puppy pack is available without visits to download and is highly recommended to purchase from the shop as a stand alone product. Contains information on growth and development, positive & negative reinforcement. Preventing unwanted behaviours. Plus training guides and progress tracking.
About the 4 week package
The first few visits will be in your home, the first discussing the best way to manage the home environment, answering the questions you have, handling preparation for future visits at vets and groomers, we go through the canine mind in detail, you cannot train something you do not understand. We talk about what behaviours we are seeing, what they may mean and what we can do, the personality of your puppy and what skills would benefit your puppy and your lifestyle.
The 2nd will be teaching the skills we have discussed for you to practise throughout the week, the 3rd will be in my training field giving us the perfect opportunity to train in a new environment, I shall explain the importance of doing so during our visits. The final session will be in an area you will be going to often. This gives the opportunity for me to help you prevent unwanted behaviours and manage situations that usually arise when out and about.
The 4th will be out and about. We shall practice leaving the car calmly and started our walks calmly we will see how the puppy feels about the world and what techniques we can do to support it.
About the 2 week package
Both these visits take place in the home. These are for problems you may find yourself facing and would like a little help with. Such as puppy biting, jumping up, crate training, toilet training, any behaviours you have questions about, we may need extra sessions to work on a specific issue. This is a great time to have an extra pair of eyes in the home.
During both packages you are encouraged to utilse opportunities of visiting the training fields. Carrying your puppy safely while watching other dogs sniff, play and run in the other fields.
Chewing.
Biting
Toileting
Crate Work
Cooperative Handling for health checks and vet visits
Independence training to avoid separation anxiety
Food bowl training to avoid resource guarding
Socialisation to novel stimuli, including other dogs and humans .
Counter surfing
Digging
Jumping up
Car travel
What Parker's Canine Care offers is a 4 week socialisation package from 8 weeks to 16 weeks of age. This is to guide and support your puppies journey and offer firm foundations on which to shape positive behavior.
It is crucial to remember that training a puppy isn't like programming a machine. You don't just do it once and its done. When training and socialisation continue the dog will become better trained and more sociable. When it stops the dogs sociability and level of training will decrease.
Socialisation, confidence building and temperament training must be accomplished during puppyhood this will help the puppy develop into a good natured, well behaved and happy adult dog.
There are many stages of development that new owners will have no influence over during Neonatal and Transitional periods. But you will for the socialisation period. It starts from 3 weeks to around 12/13 weeks. So when the puppy arrives at their forever home at 8 weeks you're already playing catch up.
This is where the choice of breeder is important. If done correctly your puppy should be desensitised to the physical aspects of a home environment e.g hoover noise, children, people coming and going, positive human interactions etc.
What does it include?
Detailed weekly training program
Positive association-depth knowledge of the canine mind
The ability to problem solve unwanted behaviours
handling, preparation for vet and groomer visits
Human socialisation
Dog socialisation
Basic skills training
Weekly progress report and updates of each visit
Home work sheets
Related advice sheets
Proofing/lifeskills Course
£120
This is a 6 week course for any dog over 6 months of age. We can work in a group class or one to one basis. We concentrate on proofing behaviours, Dogs aren't great at generalisation. You can teach your dog a Sit Stay in the house but it may not be able to achieve that in a environment with distractions. In this course we teach each new behaviour in the field then each week add a level of distraction. This course allows us to see which if any environments your dog may struggle in, we can tailor these moments and teach skills that will help support your dog.
By week 6 each dog will be able to or be on the road to achieving the following in high distraction environments.
Responsiveness, the ability to engage safely in every environment, the ability to settle, the ability to leave desired items or dogs and people. The skills we will teach would be the Leave It, Settle, Recall, scatter feeds, find its, waits, lead walking using a few fun techniques and anything else along the way that’ll be beneficial.
This course will run as a 1 to 1 or a group and will be in various real life locations.
No worries if you live far away
For clients who are further afield, you can now purchase my Puppy Pack for £6.99 through Etsy. Its worth it, comes complete with training guides from 8 weeks to 2 years plus socialisation check sheets, shopping list and training logs to stay on track.
Its an in-depth pack and will really help through the first 4 weeks at home.
Puppy Pack
https://parkerscainetraining.etsy.com
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