Puppy Training
Foundation
Two weeks Residential Training or a series of Private Training Lessons to provide a solid Puppy Training Foundation for you and your dog.
Getting your puppy’s training right from the very beginning is the single most important investment you can make as a dog owner.
The habits, behaviours and boundaries your puppy learns in their first few months will shape who they become as an adult dog.
At Liberty K9, our Puppy Training Foundation programme gives your dog the clearest, most confident start possible — whether that’s through a series of private lessons or our intensive residential programme at our Cheshire facility.
Residential Training
If you opt for a Residential Puppy Training Foundation Program we will work with you to find a suitable date to drop your puppy off at our facility.
During their stay with us, they’ll live in our home and be trained and treated exactly the same way as our own puppies.
We’ll teach them all the behaviours they need to understand in order to be the best family pet, and we’ll show them the puppy obedience training skills they’ll need to develop in future.
By the time your puppy is ready to come home you can expect to see dramatic changes in their behaviour and we will show you how to continue this foundation puppy training to develop the Perfect Puppy!
We want you to be as excited about your dog’s transformation as we are, and we need everyone involved to achieve your full potential together!
Price: £1400 for two weeks
Private Lessons
We’ll discuss your puppy with you and some of the challenges you may (or may not!) be having and can then recommend whether we think your best option is a Residential Program or a series of Private Puppy Training Lessons.
Our one to one puppy training is carried out from Monday – Friday between 9am and 6pm.
During our private lessons, we will evaluate your progress and provide a comprehensive training program to help you achieve a solid foundation of puppy obedience training and good behaviour.
Be ready…..there will be homework! It is supremely important that all of you as a family continue to train diligently in between each session. We will let you know what you need to do after each lesson.
Price: £500 for a program of 5 hours training
What’s covered?
Our Puppy Training Foundation programme addresses the full range of early behaviours that determine whether a dog grows up calm, controlled and confident, or anxious and difficult.
Every programme includes:
- Foundational obedience: Sit, down, stay, come, heel — built correctly from the start
- Impulse control: Teaching your puppy to pause and think before acting
- Loose lead walking: No pulling, lunging or zig-zagging before bad habits set in
- Crate and settle training: A calm, settled puppy that rests well is a happier puppy
- Basic sociability: Appropriate behaviour around people and other dogs
- Recall: The most important command your dog will ever learn — taught properly
- Boundary and door manners: Staying calm at thresholds and when guests arrive
- Mouthing and nipping: Stopping bite pressure before it becomes a problem
Why Professional Puppy Training Matters
Most puppies don’t fail because their owners don’t care — they fail because well-meaning owners accidentally reinforce the wrong things. Cute behaviours at 10 weeks become serious problems at 10 months. A puppy that jumps up is adorable; a 35kg Labrador that does it is a liability.
At Liberty K9, we don’t just teach your puppy commands — we show you how to communicate clearly and consistently, so your dog always knows what’s expected. The result is a dog that isn’t just obedient in training sessions, but reliable in real life.
Our trainers Paul Flanagan and Julie West bring decades of combined experience across pet dogs, working dogs and international competition. That depth of knowledge means we understand how puppies of every breed and temperament learn and we tailor the approach accordingly.
What Happens After Training?
If your puppy enrols in the residential programme, we spend time with you at handover explaining exactly what your puppy has learned and how to maintain it at home. You’ll also get access to our Love Is Not Enough online course, which covers the owner’s role in keeping a well-trained dog well-trained.
Consistency at home is everything. We give you the tools to make it straightforward.
Is My Puppy Too Young? Too Old?
We work with puppies from around 8 weeks old and generally we’d say your dog is no longer a puppy at 12 months of age. However if your dog hasn’t had structured training, the foundations still need to be built, whether they’re 8 weeks or 8 months.
If your puppy is older and has already developed specific problem behaviours (jumping, mouthing, pulling, anxiety), speak to us about whether Individual Training or a longer Residential Programme would be a better fit.
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