Pet School - Puppy Courses — Kellyville Pets

An educated owner makes for a happy pet owner!

Kellyville Pets is a trail blazer in the pet industry for providing exceptional quality education
to pet owners and pet lovers of all ages and experience levels.

Not only do we offer in-store puppy school classes and companion animal workshops - we also have online educational tools which contain endless hours of advice, how to’s, recommendations and more.

With over 38 years of experience, we have created our Pet School courses to help you feel
empowered to decide what pet is right for your family, how to deal with training and behavioural problems, even how to enrich your pet’s life - with our options expanding and updating all the time.

We offer both in-store and online courses.
Click your preferred learning style below and we'll show you the courses we currently have available.

Courses for puppies and dogs

Puppy Preschool

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8-16 weeks

1 hour per week

4 weeks

What you'll learn:

Week 1

Commands: Come/Sit

Eye contact & bonding with puppy

Toilet training

Mouthing and biting

Social interaction

Week 2

Commands: Drop/Wait

Eye contact & bonding with puppy

Heel position

Social interaction

Week 3

Commands: Stay

Tricks (shake hands, high five, roll over)

Loose lead walking

Mat training

Social interaction

Week 4

Commands: Advanced stay

Distance commands

Touch

Social interaction

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Junior School

Completed Puppy Preschool

1 hour per wek

4 weeks

What you'll learn:

Week 1

Advanced stay
Distraction training
Heeling
Distance commands
Duration

Week 2

Leave it
Stay out of sight
Heeling
Duration
Recalls

Week 3

Distractions
Duration
Distance
On all commands

Week 4

Advanced obedience

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Adolescent School

18 weeks & older

1 hour per week

4 weeks

What you'll learn:

Week 1

Recall, sit, eye contact
Marker and release words
Prevention of jumping, digging, chewing
Crate training/toilet training

Week 2

Drop
Wait
Look
Heel position
Walking on lead
Mat training

Week 3

Heeling
Stay
Tricks
Touch

Week 4

Distance commands
Advanced stay
Revision

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Scent School

16 weeks & older

1 hour per week

6 weeks

What you'll learn:

Week 1

Introduction to scent detection/training
Developing a search pattern
Building drive
The scent plume
Understanding behaviour/body language
Understanding the “sniff”

Week 2

Adding cues
Varying finds and locations

Week 3

Feeding at source
Food placement
Timing of reinforcement
Repetition
Reward value

Week 4

Pairing
Obedience to source/scent
Unknown locations of scent/find it game

Week 5

Find location variations e.g. cupboards, chairs, walls, people
Adding distractions
Working in the pet store (dog food isles, toys, treats,bedding)

Week 6

Adding distractions
Increasing difficulties of finds throughout the store

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Trick School

16 weeks & older

1 hour per week

6 weeks

What you'll learn:

Week 1

Intro to clicker training
Teach touch
Teach pull
Close/open door
Target training
Ring bell
Turn on/off light

Week 2

Hold
Use of target stick
Weaving
Spins/circles
Paws up/paws on

Week 3

Barrel push
Jump through hoop
Pack toys away
Retrieve

Week 4

Walk backwards
Bow
Play dead
Speak on command

Week 5

Place training
Ride feet
Say prayers

Week 6

Advanced tricks

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Courses for birds

Companion Bird Class

For owners of hand
raised birds

3 hours

What you'll learn:

Building trust
Handling techniques
Socialisation
Basic commands
Trick training
Body language, health & disease
Environmental enrichment
Exercise and happiness

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Courses for puppies and dogs

Puppy Masterclass