Adolescent Dogs - Award Winning Dog Training

Adolescent Dogs - Award Winning Dog Training Leading experts in training for family dogs & assistance dogs. Chat to us Live here https://wa.me/message/MSNOCZKOQROQN1 www.adolescentdogs.com

Adolescent Dogs is a family business run by Jenny Newland and Mike Newland. They have a team of 14 trainers offering home based residential training, online training, classes and one to one lessons. All training uses modern, science based training, focused on motivational training methods. See the website for prices, syllabus and booking.

🚨 Last Chance to Join Our September Medical Alert Dog Instructor Course! 🚨Our September Medical Alert Dog Instructor Sem...
06/08/2026

🚨 Last Chance to Join Our September Medical Alert Dog Instructor Course! 🚨

Our September Medical Alert Dog Instructor Seminar is almost here, and this is your final opportunity to secure a place before the course begins. 🐶🎓

With only a limited number of spaces remaining, now's the time to book if you've been thinking about expanding your skills in this growing area of dog training. Payment plans are available.

This specialist course is ideal for professional trainers who want to confidently teach and support owner-trained assistance dog teams in developing reliable, life-changing medical alert skills.

Led by scent expert Mike Newland, who has extensive experience in scentwork and medical alert assistance dog training, you'll leave with the knowledge and confidence to begin training and coaching medical alert teams.

You'll learn how to:

🧪 Imprint and train medical alert scents
📦 Collect and store scent samples safely and effectively
🚨 Teach reliable alert behaviours and build effective behaviour chains
👥 Coach owners through the medical alert training process
🎓 Develop your instructing skills for classes and 1:1s
🔍 Troubleshoot common training challenges and improve reliability
🏥 Understand the range of medical conditions assistance dogs can support

If you're ready to expand your services and make a genuine difference to people's lives, don't miss out.

📩 **Book your place today:** www.adolescentdogs.com/medicalalertinstructor

06/08/2026

Does your dog know where their back feet are? 🤔🐾

The pivot exercise might look like a fun trick, but it’s one of our favourite foundation skills. By teaching your dog to keep their front paws on a platform while moving their back end around it, you’re building the body awareness and coordination that makes so many other behaviours easier.

✨ Great for:
🐾 Loose lead walking & focused heelwork
🐾 Better rear-end awareness
🐾 Confidence and engagement
🐾 Balance and coordination
🐾 Dogs of all ages and abilities

This exercise is one of this month’s **Little Wins Bingo Challenge** activities inside the Online Academy. Every square on the bingo card is designed to be achievable in just a few minutes, helping you make real progress without feeling overwhelmed.

Whether your goal is better recall, calmer walks, improved focus or simply spending quality time with your dog, these little daily wins soon add up to big results. ❤️

Join hundreds of dog owners inside the Online Academy and enjoy:

✅ 450+ step-by-step training videos
✅ Weekly live Q&As with our trainers
✅ Personal video feedback
✅ Supportive community
✅ Monthly challenges like Little Wins Bingo to keep you motivated

🎯 Don’t wait for training to become a bigger problem—start building better habits today.

👉 Join now via the link in our bio or comment BINGO and come tick off your first Bingo square!

03/08/2026

🐾 Labrador Assistance Dog Training | Phoebe’s First Step Towards Becoming an Assistance Dog 🐾

Today we said goodbye to the gorgeous Phoebe after she successfully completed the first four weeks of her **16-week Residential Assistance Dog Pathway**—and what an incredible start she's made. ❤️

Watching this young Labrador puppy grow in confidence, maturity, and skill over the last month has been an absolute pleasure.

From day one, Phoebe approached every new challenge with enthusiasm, curiosity, and a real willingness to learn. Throughout her first residential stay, we've focused on building the essential foundations every future assistance dog needs before progressing on to more advanced skills.

During Phoebe's training, we worked on:

✨ Focused heelwork and loose lead walking
✨ Reliable recall around distractions
✨ Sit, Down, Wait, and Middle position
✨ Cooperative care for paws, ears, and teeth
✨ Calm crate training and independent settling
✨ Confidence building in new environments
✨ Positive socialisation in a wide variety of real-world locations
✨ Engagement and focus around everyday distractions

We're delighted that Phoebe successfully achieved her **Puppy Foundation Award** during her stay. 🎉

One of the standout moments has been her exceptional engagement with her handler.

Even at such a young age, Phoebe is already showing fantastic reliability. One of our favourite moments was watching her choose to leave another puppy during play and immediately return when called—a wonderful example of the strong recall and engagement foundations she's already developing.

These early skills are vital for any future assistance dog.

Before a dog can learn advanced mitigating tasks or work confidently in public, they first need excellent focus, emotional resilience, confidence, and the ability to stay connected with their handler in distracting environments.

This is only the beginning of Phoebe's journey.

Over the coming months she'll return for each stage of our structured **16-week Residential Assistance Dog Programme**, progressing through her **Bronze, Silver, and Gold Awards**, before moving on to assistance tasks, advanced public access skills, and preparation for her **Public Access Test**.

By spreading training across key developmental stages, we're able to build reliability gradually, proof behaviours through adolescence, and create confident, capable assistance dogs ready for everyday life.

Phoebe has been an absolute joy to train, and we can't wait to welcome her back for the next chapter of her journey. We have no doubt she has an incredibly bright future ahead of her. ❤️🐾

If you're planning to owner-train an assistance dog, our Residential Assistance Dog Pathway provides professional support from puppyhood through to Public Access Test level, combining residential training with ongoing owner coaching every step of the way.

🌍 [www.adolescentdogs.com](http://www.adolescentdogs.com)
📧 [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
📞 08002229007

🐾 Home Time for Toast! ❤️After four fantastic weeks of residential training, it’s time for Toast to head home! 🏡It’s bee...
03/08/2026

🐾 Home Time for Toast! ❤️

After four fantastic weeks of residential training, it’s time for Toast to head home! 🏡

It’s been a real pleasure getting to know this lovely girl over the past month. During her stay we’ve worked on:
🐶 Reliable recall
🐶 Calmness and settling
🐶 Obedience
🐶 Impulse control
🐶 Scent work

Watching Toast grow in confidence, become more engaged with her handler, and develop into a calmer, more responsive companion has been incredibly rewarding.

Tomorrow we’ll be handing everything over to her family, showing them how to continue her training at home. Residential training provides the foundations, but the real magic happens when owners continue practising and building on those new skills together.

Well done, Toast—we’re so proud of everything you’ve achieved. Safe travels home, and we can’t wait to hear how you get on! ❤️🐾

📅 **Residential training spaces are available from the last week of August onwards.** Whether you’re looking to improve recall, loose lead walking, calmness, reactivity or everyday manners, our experienced trainers provide personalised one-to-one training in their own family homes.

📞 0800 222 9007
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.adolescentdogs.com

🐾 Welcome to Residential Training, Boss! 🐾A huge welcome to 7-month-old Boss, who has joined us for a 4-week residential...
03/08/2026

🐾 Welcome to Residential Training, Boss! 🐾

A huge welcome to 7-month-old Boss, who has joined us for a 4-week residential training stay while his family enjoy their holiday. 💙

Like so many adolescent dogs, Boss is full of personality and enthusiasm, but he’s finding it difficult to switch off at home, gets a little over-excited around people, pulls strongly on the lead, loves collecting “treasures” around the house, and is still learning that coming back when called is more rewarding than running off to say hello to every dog he sees!

Over the next four weeks we’ll be helping Boss learn:

🐶 How to relax and settle calmly at home
🐶 Polite greetings without jumping up
🐶 Loose lead walking
🐶 Reliable recall
🐶 Better impulse control
🐶 Drop, leave and positive exchanges for stolen items
🐶 Confidence and engagement around everyday distractions

Residential training isn’t just about teaching cues—it’s about helping dogs develop the life skills they need to thrive both at home and out in the real world. We can’t wait to show you Boss’s journey over the coming weeks! ✨

📅 Residential training spaces are available from the last week of August onwards. If you’d like your dog to enjoy personalised, one-to-one training in one of our trainers’ family homes, we’d love to help.

📞 0800 222 9007
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.adolescentdogs.com

🐾 Welcome back, Otto! 💙We’re delighted to welcome Otto, an 11-month-old Show Cocker Spaniel, back for a residential top-...
02/08/2026

🐾 Welcome back, Otto! 💙

We’re delighted to welcome Otto, an 11-month-old Show Cocker Spaniel, back for a residential top-up stay.

One of the biggest misconceptions about dog training is that once a programme is finished, the work is done. In reality, adolescence is when many dogs begin testing boundaries, becoming more independent and forgetting some of those “perfect puppy” manners!

That’s why top-up stays can be so valuable. They help reinforce previous training, introduce the next level of skills and keep dogs progressing through this important stage of development.

During Otto’s stay we’ll be focusing on:
🐾 Strengthening his obedience
🎯 Building a more reliable recall
🚶‍♂️ Polishing his lead walking
🙌 Reducing jumping up
🏡 Improving his house manners
🧘 Helping him settle calmly at home and out and about

We’re looking forward to sharing Otto’s progress over the next week and helping him build on the fantastic foundations he’s already got.

📅 Thinking about residential training for your own dog? Our next spaces are available from the **last week of August**.

Whether your dog is a puppy needing the best start, an adolescent testing boundaries or an adult needing a training reset, we can match you with one of our experienced home-based trainers across the UK.

📩 Send us a message to find out more or reserve one of our remaining August spaces.

📞 08002229007
🌍 www.adolescentdogs.com

🎉🐾 Four weeks can make a huge difference... 🐾🎉Meet Achilles ❤️ This gorgeous Red Fox Labrador has just completed his fou...
02/08/2026

🎉🐾 Four weeks can make a huge difference... 🐾🎉

Meet Achilles ❤️ This gorgeous Red Fox Labrador has just completed his four-week residential training programme, and we’re so proud of everything he’s achieved.

When Achilles arrived, he was a typical young Labrador – full of enthusiasm, energy and always ready for the next adventure! Over the last four weeks, he’s learned that slowing down, making good choices and focusing on his handler opens the door to everything he loves.

✨ During his stay we worked on:
🐾 Recall
🐾 Loose lead walking
🐾 Engagement & focus
🐾 General obedience
🐾 Calmness around the home
🐾 Crate manners
🐾 Kitchen boundaries
🐾 Impulse control

He’s still the fun-loving, affectionate Labrador everyone adores, but now he has the skills to channel that enthusiasm in the right direction. Watching his confidence, self-control and understanding grow has been a pleasure.

Residential training isn’t about changing your dog’s personality—it’s about giving them the skills they need to thrive, then showing you how to maintain those results at home.

📅 Our next residential training spaces are available from the **last week of August**.

Whether you’re struggling with recall, lead pulling, jumping up, over-excitement, adolescent behaviours or want to build a fantastic foundation, we’d love to help.

📩 Send us a message to chat about your dog’s training goals and find the right trainer for you.

📞 08002229007
🌍 www.adolescentdogs.com

02/08/2026

🐾 Training doesn’t have to take hours to make a difference.

Our August Little Wins Bingo Challenge is all about simple activities you can fit into everyday life—even on your busiest days.

This week’s challenge is Find the Treats 👃

Scatter a few treats around the house or garden and let your dog use their nose to hunt them down.

It’s fun, mentally enriching, and a brilliant way to encourage calm, natural behaviour.

Every completed challenge gets you one step closer to filling your bingo board while building better habits, stronger engagement and more confidence along the way.

Inside the Adolescent Dogs Academy you’ll get:

✅ New challenges every month
✅ Step-by-step training videos
✅ 450+ lessons covering everything from puppies to advanced training
✅ Weekly live Q&As with our trainers
✅ Video feedback and ongoing support
✅ A friendly community to keep you motivated

Sometimes the smallest wins create the biggest changes. ❤️

Join today and start ticking off your bingo board with us! 🐾

Join here www.adolescentdogs.com/academy
Or comments ‘wins’ and we’ll send you a link!
Try it for free for 2 weeks!

🐾 Dog Engagement Skills WorkshopWith Mike Newland📍 Merrist Wood College, Guildford 📅 Saturday 26th September ⏰ 9am to 10...
01/08/2026

🐾 Dog Engagement Skills Workshop

With Mike Newland
📍 Merrist Wood College, Guildford
📅 Saturday 26th September
⏰ 9am to 10:30am

Engagement Skills: Build a Dog That Chooses You

Does your dog ignore you as soon as you step outside? Do they become far more interested in other dogs, people, squirrels or simply sniffing the grass than listening to you?

The secret isn’t constantly asking your dog to pay attention – it’s teaching them that paying attention to you is the best choice they can make.

Our Engagement Skills Workshop is packed with fun, reward-based games designed to build focus, motivation and connection between you and your dog. These simple exercises help create a dog that naturally checks in with you, even when there are distractions around.

Perfect for puppies, adolescent dogs and adults alike, these games form the foundation for better recall, loose lead walking, reactivity work and everyday obedience.

During this 90-minute workshop you’ll learn how to:

🐾 Become more rewarding than the environment.

🐾 Encourage your dog to choose to engage with you.

🐾 Build automatic check-ins without constantly calling their name.

🐾 Increase motivation and enthusiasm for training.

🐾 Improve focus around distractions.

🐾 Turn walks into opportunities for teamwork rather than a battle for attention.

Whether you’re working towards reliable recall, better lead walking or simply want a stronger relationship with your dog, these games will become some of the most valuable exercises in your training toolbox.

Book here www.adolescentdogs.com/classes

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