Every programme follows the Positive Start Method ™ – a simple framework built around four key pillars:
Confidence – A puppy who feels safe and secure is better able to learn, explore and cope with the world around them.
Skills – Learn real-world skills using kind, reward-based methods that strengthen your relationship.
Understanding – Puppy’s behaviour is their way of communicating so learning how to understand the dog in front of you helps you become more confident at your end of the lead.
Fulfilment – A fulfilled puppy is a calm puppy. Meeting their instinctual needs and individual personality type helps reduce frustration and supports emotional wellbeing.
Preparing for Puppy
‘The Positive Start Pathway’
Perfect for:
- First time owners
- Families with children
- People getting a puppy in 1-8 weeks
Includes:
- What questions to ask your breeder
- Preparing your home
- Equipment recommendations
- Crate/puppy pen set up and sleep routines
- Toilet training plan
- Managing puppy mouthing
- Family rules and consistency
- Children and puppy interactions
- Socialisation roadmap
- Breed specific needs and instincts
- First week success plan
Format:
90 min consultation + digital guide
Price: £125
Getting Started
‘Positive Start Foundations’
Perfect for:
- Getting it right from the start
- First time owners or refresher training
- Puppies aged 8-16 weeks
Includes:
- Home skills
- Toilet training
- Sleep routines
- Independence training
- Preventing separation concerns
- Appropriate chewing
- Confidence Skills
- Socialisation
- Novel environments and surfaces
- Sounds
- Handling and grooming
- Vet preparation
- Life Skills
- Name recognition
- Recall foundations (hand touch)
- Collar & lead association
- Loose lead foundations
- Settle
- Focus around distractions
- Polite greetings
- Food manners
- Instinct & Enrichment Module
- What motivates your puppy
- Breed specific fulfilment
- Age-appropriate enrichment
- BONUS: Body language and what your puppy is telling you
Format:
6 private in person sessions + digital guides
Price: £450
Growing Together
‘Positive Start Life Skills Programme‘
Perfect for:
- Building on the Foundations Programme
- Owners facing the onset of adolescence
- Puppies aged 4-8 months
Includes:
- Real-World Skills
- Loose lead walking
- Developing reliable recall
- Calm café behaviour
- Settling in public
- Polite greetings
- Focus around distractions
- Emotional Development
- Frustration tolerance
- Resilience
- Confidence building
- Managing excitement
- Impulse control
- Instinctive Fulfilment Workshop
- Understanding –
- Why dogs chase
- Why dogs steal
- Why dogs become frustrated
- Why unmet needs create behavioural changes
- Understanding –
- Weekly fulfilment plan
- Mental enrichment
- Physical exercise
- Breed specific outlets
- Relaxation activity
Format:
6 private in person sessions + digital guides
Price: £450
Navigating Adolescence
‘Positive Start Teenage Dog Academy’
Perfect for:
- When your boundaries are being tested
- When your dog appears to ‘ignore’ you
- Puppies aged 8-18 months
Includes:
- Adolescent Behaviour
- Hormonal changes
- Regression
- Independence
- Over arousal
- Confidence fluctuations
- Advanced Skills
- Recall reliability
- Stress and arousal
- Separation resilience
- Frustration behaviours
- Breed specific outlets
Format:
6 private in person sessions + digital guides
Price: £550