Four Paws Dog Training Club & Puppy School - East London

Four Paws Dog Training Club & Puppy School - East London ☆Puppy School with experienced & certified trainers
☆ Clicker Training Obedience Courses
☆Positive & kind training methods with proven results

At Four Paws, we pride ourselves on offering the full package - top class tuition and top class facilities. All methods used are kind and effective, as we do not believe in using any unkind and punitive techniques on your dog. TRAINING COURSES AVAILABLE:
☆ 6 week 'Paws @ Play' Puppy Socialisation Course (10 - 20 week old pups)
☆ Dog Agility Courses
☆ Rally Obedience

New batch of stunning Tilty Treasures treat bags available ✨️
28/01/2025

New batch of stunning Tilty Treasures treat bags available ✨️

26/01/2025

Yesterday's Puppy Class ✨️Effective puppy socializing is SO important for a happy future! 🎉 It's all about introducing your pup to new sights, sounds, and experiences in a positive way. Building confidence through early and consistent socializing helps create a well-adjusted, happy dog. This training sets the stage for a lifetime of great adventures together.🐾 Think of it as the leash (least) you can do for your smart pup! It makes such a difference in avoiding any "ruff patches" down the road...✨️

By getting pups to THINK engages them during training and is a sure fast way to tire them out! Clicker training for the ...
26/01/2025

By getting pups to THINK engages them during training and is a sure fast way to tire them out! Clicker training for the win!
Four Paws pups at home after class.

A puddle of puppies! ❤️ Learning and having fun, what could be better? They're socializing in a safe, clean environmen...
26/01/2025

A puddle of puppies! ❤️ Learning and having fun, what could be better? They're socializing in a safe, clean environment, which is so important for these little ones. It's fantastic to see them exploring and growing! Puppy socialization classes are such a paw-sitive experience. ...It's just the leash you can do for a happy, well-adjusted pup. 🐾

It's amazing to witness the dogs learning and growing each week. Seeing the bond strengthen between owner and canine co...
26/01/2025

It's amazing to witness the dogs learning and growing each week. Seeing the bond strengthen between owner and canine companion is truly rewarding.

Great start to the 2025 training year at Four Paws ~ guiding new handlers and their older pups and dogs towards a smarte...
19/01/2025

Great start to the 2025 training year at Four Paws ~ guiding new handlers and their older pups and dogs towards a smarter, happy future ✨️🐾

We have kicked off the new year's Puppy School classes with great enthusiasm!Many new pups and their handlers are making...
19/01/2025

We have kicked off the new year's Puppy School classes with great enthusiasm!
Many new pups and their handlers are making a smart investment in their future together ✨️🐾

Club reopens this Saturday, 18th January 🐾✨️
14/01/2025

Club reopens this Saturday, 18th January 🐾✨️

Fireworks’ Night: loud screeches, pretty bright lights, almighty bangs, an enjoyable night for all, or so you’d think? F...
31/12/2024

Fireworks’ Night: loud screeches, pretty bright lights, almighty bangs, an enjoyable night for all, or so you’d think? For many dog owners fireworks night is the one night of the year that they have come to dread. For their dogs, it’s the worst night imaginable.
More dogs than you’d think suffer from an enormous amount of stress on firework night, normally due to a learned fear. Some behaviors that may be seen are:
• Barking incessantly,
• Running away, hiding under chairs and tables
• Shaking and trembling
• Pawing at their owner for reassurance
• Escaping
Unfortunately as humans it is instinctive to want to reassure and comfort our loved ones when they are distressed and through speech and affection we are able to do just that. However in the dog world it doesn’t quite work that way. When a dog receives a cuddle or a stroke they normally perceive it as a reward and whenever you reward a dog for a behaviour you are increasing the likelihood of them displaying that behaviour again in the future. So as natural as it is for us to do, if we reassure our dogs when they are scared we are actually rewarding them, and making their fear worse. So please don’t sit and cuddle your puppy on the sofa for two hours through the duration of the fireworks. Your puppy’s first
experience can dictate how they cope with fireworks in future years so it is vital you get it right first time around.
What to do?
Your reaction is the most important.
• Ignore any signs of fear!
• Act as you would on any other Wednesday evening. If you are acting differently it will add to any stress; pull the curtains and put the T.V. on.
• Give your puppy something positive to do e.g. play a game, do some training with tasty tit bits, or fill an interactive toy such as a Kong
Above are some pointers of how to make sure your puppy’s first experience of fireworks is a pleasant one to prevent them developing any fear.

Taken from “Firework Fear” by Pam Mackinnon

All I want for Christmas... 🎄
23/12/2024

All I want for Christmas... 🎄

Slowly does it... little boy was frightened of the water. Took a couple of minutes of treats and games... and then he wi...
03/12/2024

Slowly does it... little boy was frightened of the water. Took a couple of minutes of treats and games... and then he willingly stepped in ❤️

Christmas Paw-ty fun 🎄🎁
01/12/2024

Christmas Paw-ty fun 🎄🎁

Congrats to our latest "Paws@Primary" peeps!🎓
01/12/2024

Congrats to our latest "Paws@Primary" peeps!🎓

A super fun Saturday teaching the name game, focus & stays amongst many other things ✨️🐾
01/12/2024

A super fun Saturday teaching the name game, focus & stays amongst many other things ✨️🐾

Taken from Good Guardianship When living with a dog who has lots of energy it can seem logical to think that they need m...
01/12/2024

Taken from Good Guardianship
When living with a dog who has lots of energy it can seem logical to think that they need more exercise to tire them out - longer, faster walks, more throwing of a ball (or using a ball chuckler), always more, more, more...

While this does on the surface seem to make perfect sense, when following that advice what we are actually doing is making the situation worse. Think about how an athlete works to increase their fitness - they do more and faster. Now think about throwing a ball for the dog repeatedly. This is much like the shuttle runs those athletes do to increase their speed and fitness levels.

The great news is that there is another option for these high energy dogs. Yes, they need physical exercise, but they also need mental exercise. Luckily, mental exercise is a fairly easy thing to provide for all dogs, and we can even fit a great amount in on our daily walks.

Sniffing is an activity suitable for all dogs. Scent is the primary way dogs analyse and interpret their world, with an olfactory capability way better than that of humans. Simply giving your dog time and space to sniff on a walk gets that brain working and that will tire your dog more than you might realise. My own Border Collies (one of whom is the young dog sniffing in the image) will relax and snooze as much after 20 minutes of sniffing as they will after a 2 hour mostly off lead walk.

There are lots of ways to provide mental exercise for dogs, but this most powerful form is something that we can access free at any time, just by giving them the time to investigate their surroundings in the way that works best for them.

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Brakfontein N2
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Wednesday 09:00 - 12:00
Saturday 08:00 - 12:00

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Yesterday's Puppy Class ✨️Effective puppy socializing is SO important for a happy future! 🎉 It's all about introducing your pup to new sights, sounds, and experiences in a positive way. Building confidence through early and consistent socializing helps create a well-adjusted, happy dog. This training sets the stage for a lifetime of great adventures together.🐾 Think of it as the leash (least) you can do for your smart pup! It makes such a difference in avoiding any "ruff patches" down the road...✨️

"The same group, who began their journey with chaos, showcased their incredible progress by practising a trick for their final lesson. A huge congratulations to Catherine & Sandy for winning the prize! Your hard work and commitment have truly paid off!"

Our soon to be birthday girl, Joy! Join us on the 30th November to celebrate her 28th birthday a day early, at our annual Christmas Paw-ty 🎄

Paws@Play 14th September 2024
Paws@Play 14th September 2024

MERA Petfood Pricelist 2024

Uploading soon... We have been feeding our own dogs exclusively on MERA and selling it since 2008. MERA is a fully imported product, manufactured at their state of the art facility in Germany. They are one of the top 3 producers of pet food in Europe, and the factory is one of the most modern pet food production factilities in the world. MERA only use ingredients fit for human consumption and sourced in the European region. All of the recipes are developed by qualified animal nutritionists. In their entire history, since 1949, they have never had any recalls on any products.

So proud of these guys for all the dedication and hard work that they put in to their training!

Safe and structured puppy socialising Four Paws Dog Training Club & Puppy School - East London

✨This 4 week course is geared to teach you HOW to train your dog, ensuring you understand the philosophy and correct implementation behind modern clicker training methods. Dogs willingly learn how to make the correct decisions using positive training methods, and a variety of fun games and obedience exercises, focusing primarily on reliable recalls, loose leash walking and retrieves. Class numbers are limited to first come, first served – booking essential! This course is NOT suitable for dogs with aggression problems.🌟

The benefits of joining Four Paws Puppy School are two-fold: to help pups grow into confident, sociable and well-behaved dogs, and of equal importance, to help owners improve their relationship with their pups and give them the best possible start through learning to understand and responsibly manage their behaviour. Classes Saturdays at 2.30pm. Give us a shout! 0713537521 https://www.facebook.com/FourPawsDogTrainingClubPuppySchool/

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At Four Paws, we pride ourselves on offering the full package - top class tuition and top class facilities. All methods used are kind and effective, as we do not believe in using any unkind and punitive techniques on your dog. TRAINING COURSES AVAILABLE: * 6 week Puppy Course (10 - 20 week old pups) * 6 week Beginner Clicker Training Obedience Course (5 months and older)