VIP Dog Training with Maree Field

29/05/2026

REMINDER - there are no classes this weekend at Ormeau Woods State High School

28/05/2026

SCHEDULE
JULY 2026

VIP Dog Training with Maree Field offers group classes, private lessons, phone consultations and home visits.

▪︎ Group Classes / Ormeau Woods State High School, 148 Goldmine Toad, Ormeau.
▪︎ Private Lessons/ Ormeau or Windaroo Outlook

SATURDAY Group Class Dates.
▪︎ 4 July to 8 August

▪︎ 7.00am Tricks
▪︎ 8.30am Obedience 1 (6 wks)
▪︎ 8.30am Loose Lead Walking (6 wks)
▪︎ 10am - Preschool (6 wks)

TUESDAY Group Class Dates.
▪︎ 07 July to 11 August

▪︎ 6pm - Preschool
▪︎ 7.30pm Loose Lead Walking with Manners OR Obedience 1

NOTE
All 6 week Courses are $210.

PACKAGES

▪︎ PUPPY LIFESKILLS PACKAGE
18 weeks ( save $90)
- Preschool
- Obedience 1
- Loose Lead Walking with Manners.
- 3 Courses $540. 2 payments of $280

▪︎PUPPY MINI PACKAGE
12 weeks (save $50)
- Preschool
- Obedience1 or Loose Lead Walking
- 2 Courses $370.

NOTE:- Puppies can start in any week of the preschool course once they are 10 days clear of their first vaccination.

MINI OBEDIENCE PACKAGE
12 weeks (save $50)
▪︎ Obedience 1
▪︎ Loose Lead Walking with Manners
2 Courses $370

FOUNDATION OBEDIENCE PACKAGE
19 weeks (save $90)
▪︎ Obedience 1
▪︎ Loose Lead Walking with Manners
▪︎ Obedience 2
3 Courses $540. 2 payments of $280

OTHER
• Freestyle - Sundays 7am
▪︎ Obedience 2 & 3 - Mondays 6.15pm
▪︎ OB 4 to 6 - Mondays 5pm & 7.30pm

Contact Maree to book in
MOB: 0400 654 408
EMAIL: [email protected]
FB: VIP Dog Training with Maree Field

18/05/2026

Congratulations to our Graduates from Tuesday night classes - Preschool & Obedience 1

15/05/2026

15/05/2026

REMINDER
No classes this weekend at Ormeau Woods State High School.
We are doing Demos at Dog Lovers Show.

Thanks
Maree
VIP Dog Training with Maree Field

28/04/2026

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28/04/2026

Don’t rush it.
It looks like a simple moment.
It really isn’t.

If you have a really social dog, awesome. You’ll likely never have the dilemma or issues with these decisions.
But many more dogs need us to make careful decisions. We are the “gate keeper”.
What was their most recent experience?
Good, bad or you’re just uneasy because of a little niggling feeling.
That matters.

Perhaps you know that your dog’s energy changes after 5 minutes of playing and you’re very aware that energy can tip over into something else.
The fact you know that is brilliant!

We tend to focus on the obvious and what we see in that moment.
The eagerness.
The wagging tail.
The forward movement by one desperate to meet the other.
The “friendly” approach.
But that’s not all that we should notice and the more you look at the bigger picture, the easier it is to make decisions and those decisions matter.

Because once they’re in it, it’s much harder to change.

It’s ok to pause.
It’s ok to step away.
It’s ok to say no.

And yes
It’s absolutely ok to say yes too.

28/04/2026

CONGRADUATIONS to the Graduates from Saturdays PUPPY PRESCHOOL Course

28/04/2026

CONGRATULATIONS to our Saturday Graduates from Obedience 1

25/04/2026

But they KNOW it.
Chances are, they don’t. Not out there.

This is one of those areas that frustrates both ends of the leash.
But we have to look at what’s actually happening.

A quick side step.

I design logos and graphics for clients.
Put me in my office, at my computer, and I can do it well.

Now put me in a busy café or a mall?

I’m looking at the cabinet with the cakes.
I’m hearing the person beside me going on about their co-worker.
I bump into someone I know.
That great idea I had? Gone.

I suddenly can’t do what I KNOW how to do.

The environment changed. Completely.

Put me in a quieter café, I’d probably manage.
Do it there a few times, I’d get better and better.

So why do we think dogs are any different?

They learned to listen in the lounge.
Maybe did a few solid downs in the yard.
Then it all falls apart the moment you step out the gate.

Because the environment changed.

That new smell in the grass.
The grumbly motorbike going past.
The lawn mower in the background.

None of that existed in your lounge.

And the further you move into higher distraction areas,
the more the environment will win.

So flip it.

Build those listening skills in those lower level environments first.
Add small distractions.
Use higher value rewards so it’s worth it.

Ask for a few basics there. Then build.

That’s how you grow the skill.

If you haven’t put those intermediate steps in,
you’re asking too much, too soon.

27/01/2026

Congratulations to our beautiful puppies graduating from Puppy Preschool - Tuesday night class