Puppy School Lancaster

Welcome to Puppy School Lancaster

At Puppy School, we pride ourselves on using modern, reward-based training techniques based on the science behind behaviour to achieve great results. In fully appreciating and understanding canine behaviour, we work hard to make sure you and your puppy have the best possible life together.

Puppy School Lancaster provides a comprehensive programme which has been carefully designed to take you through all the obedience basics giving you a good foundation for life with your new puppy.

Puppy School is founded by APBC registered behaviourist and author Gwen Bailey. Your tutors regularly attend seminars and conferences run by leading trainers/behaviourists in order to keep up to date with the latest science behind animal behaviour and training.

The puppy training exercises gradually progress from easy to more complex over a period of six weekly sessions lasting one hour. We help you to build on your puppy’s understanding and reliability each week.

We want to give your puppy the best start possible so we educate puppies to have good manners, to be friendly with adults, children and other puppies and to respond to basic commands.

Your experienced Puppy School Tutor will be on hand throughout the course to help you with any behavioural problems you may be experiencing. At the end of the six-week course, your puppy will graduate and receive a very special Puppy School rosette and certificate for completing the course.

Kelly is a full-time canine behaviour practitioner operating in and around Lancashire and Cumbria.

Her hands-on experience began as a child growing up with 12 greyhounds (all at once) and other family dogs that seemed to gravitate to her and earning her a reputation as a dog whisperer. This led to many subsequent years of volunteering in shelters and projects all over the world that supported dogs and other species too.

Whilst opting for kind and humane methods has always been a natural choice for Kelly, it wasn’t until pursuing formal qualifications that the science behind learning theory really projected her career and training methods. Now, Kelly is a proud advocate of rewards-based training and force free methods and hopes to see more trainers follow suit.

Teaching calm, security and resilience are important tenets of Kelly’s work along with understanding the emotional aspects of behaviour.