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Little Orchard Dog Training Academy

Little Orchard Dog Training Academy operate in and around the Weston-super-Mare area, Somerset, UK.
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Training at Little Orchard is designed to be fun and interactive, strengthening the bond between you and your dog. We provide reward based training for dogs and aim to provide a relaxed environment for owners. We offer a number of Courses including:
The Kennel Club Good Citizen Dog Scheme Bronze, Silver and Gold Levels. Kennel Club Puppy courses, Agility courses, Fun Club and Gundog Workshops. We also offer Social Courses and 1-2-1 training and assessments.

09/11/2024

07/11/2024

Week 4 of our indoor activities training at Stretcholt and we seem to have found a good rhythm and we are fitting as much into the lessons as we can. There are 4 Agility groups at the far end of the Arena and the other end shares between 2 Hoopers and 2 Rally groups. The new central barrier plan has really helped divide the teaching spaces this year.
We hope you are all enjoying being under cover instead of under water :-)

06/11/2024

Excited to be teaming up with some other lovely trainers on a Training camp at a fantastic venue where we plan to hold a Rally show.

If you would like a space let me know and I can send you the payment link for the deposit to secure a space.

04/11/2024

KC Rally Regulations and Judging procedure. Saturday 11th January 2025 hosted by Little Orchard.

22/10/2024

Save the date while we are in the planning stages of summer camp 2025.
We have Barrie James covering Agility workshops, Kay Allen joining us to cover Obedience, Sue will be back for a day of
Gun Dog Training, Lucy has agreed to cover some fun scent work sessions, and we have lots more exciting news.
If you would like a space held priority is for those booking the 3 days. Please email or message us.
23rd - 25th of July 2025

19/10/2024

A great day out at Ilminster Rally today!
So proud of Emma Howarth and her 3 red rosettes! What an amazing team with such an exciting journey ahead of them!
Congratulations and great results for Jane with Buzz and Woody at their 1st shows both picking up qualifying scores in level one.
Liv and Alfred for an excellent in level one and impressive work at level 2.
The family managed some great results with our star of the day going to Tom and Primrose for excellent qualifications at L3 and 4.
Jess and Ginny did a fab excellent round at L3 and qualifying score at L4.
Super pleased with how Brae and Woody worked today with fun and energy, even though they had a few errors :-)
Good luck to everyone their tomorrow and do share your photos with us here.

17/10/2024

Thank you to everyone that joined us at Stretcholt for the new courses today.
We had 4 groups of Agility, 2 of Hoopers and 2 of Rally. We tried a new barrier system that seemed to really help.
You all did great at a new venue with lots of distractions! Keep up the great work and look forward to seeing you next week
Sarah, Stu, Danni, and Maria X

16/10/2024

** For anyone joining us at Stretcholt tomorrow **

As we were moving equipment today, they have started digging up the A38 along the main route to Stretcholt Equestrian Centre from the M5 J22.

Traffic is heaviest from the motorway but there are currently 3 way lights on the roundabout near Screwfix / McDonalds and Aldi.

I've attached the image below with 2 alternative routes.

Dashed line - Follow the main road into Burnham from the Motorway roundabout. At the Tesco roundabout, turn left and follow the road (Frank Foley Parkway) all the way to Burnham Road B3139. Turn left and it will bring you out at the Asda roundabout. Turn right and you'll be back on track.

Solid Orange Line - From the motorway roundabout head towards Highbridge. After the Windmill caravan park on the left, turn left onto Burnham Moor lane (which later turns into Pillmore lane).
Follow all the way to Mark Causeway (B3139). Turn right and go past Rich's Cider, following the road round to the right and onto Mark Road. Follow this down past Highbridge train station and once you reach the roundabout at Huntspill road, Turn Left. Again, you're back on the "Usual" route.

Stu

15/10/2024

Currently sorting Monday daytime courses for Silver, Fun Gun Dog and Training club.
Let us know if you want to join us in the last options for 2024 :-)

13/10/2024

A space is available starting next Thursday evening at Stretcholt Arena for starters Rally and Starters Agility.
Let us know if you would like to join us :-)

10/10/2024

WE CURRENTLY HAVE NO EVENING AVAILABILITY FOR PUPPY COURSES / GCDS BRONZE COURSES UNTIL 2025.
Sorry for any inconvenience.

09/10/2024

Due to the field being a bit like a swimming pool our last Hoopers lessons have moved to the garden today. Great to have the sun shining. Next week we roll out to Stretcholt Arena for undercover Hoopers lessons :-)

08/10/2024

I am wondering about doing some more Facebook lives over winter...
Who would be interested and what would you like to hear about?
Suggestions please :-)

07/10/2024

This is Primrose responding to me asking for admin assistance....
We are in the final stages of booking the last few spaces for this year's training!
Stretchholt arena with undercover lessons start on Thursday 17th October.
1 space in Agility, Hoopers, Rally.
I am also thinking about forming a Silver Group if there are people out there wanting to train their Good Citizens? :-)

02/10/2024

Info for the South West regional Rally team try outs.

27/09/2024

Course updates -

As we get ready to move venues on Thursday's for the winter, there will be come changes to the "normal" course times on other days at Little Orchard......

Puppy course options that still have availability (under 20 weeks old at lesson 1):
Tuesday 1st October - 10.30am - 1 SPACE
Tuesday 1st October - 5.15pm - 1 SPACE

Bronze course options that still have availability:

Monday 4.15pm - Bronze
Tuesday 11.45am - Bronze
Friday 9.15am - Bronze

26/09/2024

I have no willpower..... I know it's still September but whilst ordering Vet bedding, for stock, these are available again.......

so.........

I have 6 of each style coming in ready for sale next week :-)

Stu

Address

Little Orchard, Gills Lane
Axbridge
BS262TZ

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 9pm
Tuesday	9am - 9pm
Wednesday	9am - 9pm
Thursday	9am - 9pm
Friday	9am - 9pm

Telephone

+447736425527

Website

http://www.little-orchard.co.uk/

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Thank you to everyone that joined us at Stretcholt for the new courses today. We had 4 groups of Agility, 2 of Hoopers and 2 of Rally. We tried a new barrier system that seemed to really help. You all did great at a new venue with lots of distractions! Keep up the great work and look forward to seeing you next week Sarah, Stu, Danni, and Maria X

A big thanks Maria Nash for teaming up with me to teach two Gun Dog workshops today. A shame about the rain at times but amazing relationships and skills at part 2 this morning building up lots of training and some layers added to retrieves. Then part 1 all getting to grips with use of whistles, breaking down the retrieve and lots of foundation skills. Thanks everyone for coming along:-)

Lovely to be outside for the 3 Rally groups tonight. Great work everyone! Here is Jess practicing :-)

It seems we have 3 foxes playing in the garden tonight.......

This is two members of our "K9 distraction team" playing with a lid from a pot of Platinum Pet Food UK left out after training last night...... I have the lid but no idea where they took the pot. #happyfoxes

A lovely walk about the field this morning with Nutty and Ginny having lots of play. Very quickly our home has gone from 8 to 6 dogs which feels a bit strange for us all. What are your dogs up to today?

This morning Sarah and Maria teamed up to teach another intro to Gun Dog skills workshop. We were blessed with a great group of dogs and handlers in lovely weather. We covered heelwork, recalls with whistles, breaking down retrieves, shaping onto targets, forward focus, stop whistles and a hunting game. The dogs worked so well around each other and gave their handlers super focus. Thanks everyone for your great work today. :-)

Well what a lively day out at the Jurassic Coast Agility Show. No red ribbons but a lot to be so PLEASED about. Woody and Ginny both measure into intermediate (lower jumps) and we all got to have a run in a great course set by Barrie James. Unfortunately, I think he must've forgotten to straighten the last 4 jumps out into a nice line as one was offset and caused us all problems ;-) pic attached below. The Agility community were all really supportive and friendly today and it was really refreshing to be able to a) Enter a show on the day b) Follow classes and results on an app c) Have plenty of space around well fenced rings for dogs competing It made for a stress free day. Best bit - Woody held his wait, didn't shout at me (much) and didn't bite my leg...... yes he has previous!! Stu P.s This is Tom's round in the video. That 1 jump.......

A big thank you to Stu for covering all my work this week including Rally on line zooms and a mix of Rally and Parkour lessons today. I hope to have my voice and some energy back soon. Sarah x

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A little bit about Little Orchard........

Training at Little Orchard is designed to be fun and interactive, strengthening the bond between you and your dog. We provide reward based training for dogs and aim to provide a relaxed environment for owners. We offer a number of Courses including: The Kennel Club Good Citizen Dog Scheme Bronze, Silver and Gold Levels. Kennel Club Puppy courses, Agility courses, Kennel Club Rally, Fun Courses and Gundog Workshops. We also offer Social Courses and 1-2-1 training and assessments.