Perfect Puppies

22/09/2025

If you haven’t been able to get a place in puppy classes that fits around your work check out the new Sunday morning classes 👌🤩🐾

22/09/2025

Puppy advice online overwhelming you? Been given conflicting suggestions? It can get really stressful if you don’t feel confident in your approach, especially if you are a first time puppy owner. A home visit means you can focus your energy on your puppy, get off to a flying start and by the time your puppy classes begin your puppy could be:- toilet trained ✅ stopped play biting ✅ sleeping through the night ✅ already started socialising ✅

18/08/2025

Updated course dates, some sold out, some new dates added. Plan for perfection - learn with an expert 💪🏻🐾

08/08/2025

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06/08/2025

Bringing home a new puppy? Here are weekly puppy training classes in the Cotswolds, plus home puppy consultations, puppy-specific chews & toys. Perfect Puppies.

18/03/2025

27/06/2024

Travelling in style! 🤩

14/05/2024

Is your puppy a fussy eater?

Are you feeding them too much? I know, you're feeding what it says on the pack right? unfortunately feeding according to their weight, age or size is a pretty unreliable guide (it's on the bag because it's required by law) some pups - just like people - need less food than others.

Use this physical body check instead:- put your hands on either side of their ribcage, find your way through their fur so your fingertips touch their skin, now rub their skin back and forth over their ribs.. does it feel like a T-shirt covering the bones? In which case they are the perfect weight! Maybe it feels more like a sweater? In which case they are rather 'well-covered'! Maybe feed a little less. If it feels like a winter coat a fairly drastic ration reduction is required 😬 .

Remember to count healthy training treats and natural chews as part of their daily food allowance, and not extra.

Most fussy eaters are simply fully satisfied by what they are eating, and will always turn their nose up at the least interesting offering, which is often their main food (unless you feed raw..now thats a whole other story! 😁 ).

25/04/2024

What if my puppy is great at home but in class he just wants to play with the other puppies?

Training at home in a quiet, distraction-free environment is a perfect way to help your puppy learn brand new exercises.

But once they have the basics what really counts is teaching them to respond to you with distractions around them, so they will do ask you ask in real life situations which are often busy, noisy or filled with dogs and people.

When you are asking something quite tricky of your puppy (eg. Listening to you in a busy class environment) it's important to adjust your expectations, ask less of them, so they will more easily succeed, but don’t give up.

Training in the class environment is definitely challenging but a great opportunity to train for real situations.

What was your training experience like?

Helen x

25/04/2024

Isn't this just the perfect sky to walk your perfect puppy under? What's your favourite walk spot?

Helen x

24/04/2024

Is there still any point to socialising my puppy early on?

You puppy may look very different from a wild dog, but his DNA is almost identical. This equips him with instinctive survival mechanisms. Being wary of the unfamiliar is a clever way to stay alive in the wild, it doesn’t help much when you are a living with a human family though.

During the period of early development that a wild puppy would be with its mother, she will learn what her environment looks like, what she sees, hears and smells every day goes on an important list in her brain of ‘things that I don’t need to be afraid of’. Once weaned and independent she will uses it as a checklist, anything new is regarded as a potential threat.

Raising a puppy in a human world means broadening a puppy’s definition of what is safe by introducing them to as many places, people, sights, sounds, dogs, as possible so they all make it on to the ‘safe list’. If we do a good job your puppy will also become much more accepting of novelty.

It is much easier on your puppy, and you, to do this when they are very young, hence my recommendation to begin classes early. It is incredibly important to do this socialising carefully so your pup doesn’t get overwhelmed or scared, we cover how to get this right in class.

What was your puppy socialising experience like?

Helen x