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Shropshire’s First Award Winning Training Academy! Members: PPGuild & Anti-Bullying Alliance We do the complete package when it comes to training your dog!

Accredited Dog Trainers with DTC / PTAD / IMDT
Specialising in: Puppy Training, Adolescence Training, Therapy, Assistance Dog Training, AAI and Gun Dog Training. Puppy & Friends Academy is Shropshire’s First Award Winning Training Academy! Our Puppy Classes have won Best Dog Training Classes in Central England by Prestige Awards 2020/2021/ 2022

We are accredited Dog Trainers with The Dog Training

College, as well as Certified Force Free Trainers and are approved members of the PP Guild. What we do:

Puppy Classes - Our award winning classes. A 6 week training package for teaching all life skill training. Adolescence Course - Our award winning classes. A five week course teaching owners how to mentally stimulate their puppy all through the power of games and scent work. Plus a lot of other handy skills such as an emergency stop and whistle recall! Behaviour Consultations - In the comfort of your own home, we will help you get the best out of your dog and reward those good behaviours! Includes written report via email and ongoing support from your Pro dog trainer! Therapy Dog Training Programme - A 6 week intensive course teaching crucial behaviours to be able to use your dog in a placement setting - either for personal, professional or charity use. Workshops - We have every workshop available for our clients! From teaching a reliable recall, loose leash walking and also specific training like scent training! Scent Club - A VIP club for our existing clients that are wanting to take their scent work to the next level! Puppy Playgroup - Our playgroup is all about novelty confidence on our novelty assault course, positive pairing and teaching the correct behaviour chain when it comes to socialisation

25/07/2025

Congratulations to these amazing Puppies graduating our Life Skills Course!
They have learnt:

✔️Building obedience skills such as sit, down, and stay with distractions
✔️Recall away from other dogs and people
✔️Loose leash walking, road safety and impulse control management
✔️ Confidence in different environments
✔️ Socialisation
✔️No jumping up - calm greetings with other dogs and people
✔️ How to settle in bus environments to transfer to a cafe / pub / or at home
✔️Disengagement exercises

We can’t wait to see them back for our follow on courses! ☺️

21/07/2025

⭐️Congratulations to Bella & Lauren who have passed their Bronze Award on our Assistance Dog Programme! ⭐️

18/07/2025

‘Cannot thank Puppy and Friends Academy enough!’
Congratulations to Zeus the Whippet and Finn his handler who have successfully passed their Assistance Dog PAT test!

Zeus and Finn started their training with us back in November 2023 and their training has gone from strength to strength!

Zeus and his handler, Finn have successfully completed all of our Assistance Dog Levels and passed their public access test.

Their Assistance Dog journey has been incredible and Zeus is now able to support Finn fully!

Zeus can:
✔️Fetch a dropped lead
✔️Offer deep pressure therapy when his handler is overwhelmed
✔️Interrupt emotions
✔️Empty washing machine
✔️Press lift buttons when his handler is using a wheelchair
✔️Pick up various dropped items

A fantastic achievement for them both!
Well done! ⭐️

18/07/2025

⭐️ Congratulations to Saffie the Golden Retriever and her handler! ⭐️
Saffie has successfully completed all levels for our Therapy Dog Programme and passed her assessment.

Saffie will be supporting residents in her handler’s work place (residential home)

Saffie has been an absolute dream to train, and is the perfect example of her breed: affectionate, polite social skills, fantastic obedience skills, loves her food and also everyone and anyone she meets!

Saffie has completed:
✔️Puppy Classes
✔️Adolescence Classes
✔️Therapy Level 1
✔️Therapy Level 2
✔️Therapy Level 3
✔️Assessment

We are super proud to have been apart of her amazing journey and we know she is going to make a huge positive impact at the residential home!

Well done Team! ⭐️

Saffie’s handler’s feedback:

‘Saffie is my fifth golden retriever- and by far my most challenging…..So to try and help me to further understand her needs we enrolled in puppy classes at the academy.

We arrived for our classes and were met with friendly, non judgmental and interesting advice from Siobhan & Katie.

Saffie loved the classes from day one and we later enrolled in the adolescent course as we were enjoying the lessons we were both learning, especially as we were spending time learning together.
The classes have always been really interesting and the field trips helped us getting out and about in the “real world”

When we had completed the adolescence course Siobhan asked if I would be interested in doing the therapy dog course - I queried whether she though Saffie would enjoy it and she confidently said she’s be perfect for it (she was right!)

We have completed the three levels and Saffie has qualified as a therapy dog- something I never thought we’d achieve when we first arrived at the academy!

I am so grateful to everyone- including the work experience students that helped at our classes - and I am proud of Saffie too for showing me where her talents lie!’

12/07/2025

The Ultimate Enrichment Workshop!
Designed for dogs owners that are experiencing:
❗️Frustration behaviours: pulling on lead, poor recall, jumping up!
❗️Reactivity
❗️Anxiety

This workshop isn’t your basic enrichment workshop!
❌ There is no chewing or licking involved!

Our workshop is designed to create outlets for every single breed of dog, creating a calm and happy dog that thrives inside the home and outside!

When we provide suitable outlets for our dogs we actually create a fulfilled and content dog!!

In our workshop we will be showing you 13 brand new training exercises and hunting games to:
✔️Build confidence
✔️Build calmness
✔️Build and grow better positive choices in training
✔️Grow your relationship and engagement with your dog inside and outside the home
✔️Build their problem solving skills
Provide suitable outlets making them calmer and happier

Our workshop goes live Monday 21st July at 7pm via Zoom!
Don’t worry if you miss it as it will be recorded and you will have access to it forever including the 13 training plans!

We have discounted the workshop for the first 48 hours!
💰 Price: £19.99 (Limited spaces available)
❗️Price after 48 hours: £49.99

🕣 Time and date: Monday 21st July 19:00 - 20:30
💻 Location: Zoom in the comfort of your own home!
🌈 Access: Forever including the training plans!

Free bonuses:
⭐️ 30 day free trial to our online academy
⭐️ Access to 10+ courses!
⭐️ Facebook support group!

To book your space, click the link below and register:

https://puppy-and-friends-academy-2.kit.com/products/ultimate-enrichment-workshop?promo=ULTIMATE25

12/07/2025

06/07/2025

Our Assistance Dog Programme Testimonial!
Affordable Assistance Dog Training!
We appreciate that so many Assistance Dog companies charge a high price when it comes to their programmes.

Our assistance dog programme is affordable plus receiving extra support and advice each week through our training classes and zoom support calls!

Peggy has been working with us since she was 16 weeks old, she has passed her puppy foundations and is now working her way through her Bronze Award!

We are super proud of Peggy and the progress she is making!

06/07/2025

1:1 Assistance Dog Training!
Bella is excelling in her Assistance Dog Training and has started to proof her skills in busier environments!

We focused on impulse control training and also mitigating tasks such as find the exit so her handler can quickly exit an environment if she is starting to feel overwhelmed!

06/07/2025

We have had lots of new puppies start their Puppy Life Skills Classes with us!

They were all brilliant and just look at those cute faces…

Our enrolment for July / August Puppy Classes are now open!

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04/07/2025

🗣️New Service! Companion Walks!
Only three spaces available! 🗣️

These 1:1 walks are suitable for:
✔️Reactive dogs
✔️Nervous dogs
✔️Over friendly dogs
✔️Dogs lacking social skills
✔️Poor recall
✔️Loose leash walking with dogs and people
✔️Therapy & Assistance Dog Training

❓Do you have… a reactive dog?
❓Do you have a dog that is nervous around other dogs?
❓Do you have a dog that might be over friendly and pulls on the lead to get to other dogs and people?
❓Do you have a dog that doesn’t have good recall when another dog or person is in sight?

‼️Well all of the above are common behavioural struggles and it’s something we can help you with!

At our Academy we have a wide range of Demo dogs that we use to help all of clients with the above.

For example… if you have a nervous dog that reacts on lead when they see another dog.

We can put a plan into place and meet up in a quiet area with one of our calm demo dogs.

We will set up training exercises for the owner and dog to do whilst we work our demo dog safely around the dog at a distance.

Once we see the body language start to relax we will start to get closer, the aim is not to meet but for the reactive dog to feel comfortable and relaxed in the presence of one of our calm demo dogs.

From there we will go for a walk, talking through behaviours and also making sure the dog is comfortable and allowing their confidence to increase.

The aim is to change the dogs emotional response over time and not throw them in the deep end!

We have had amazing results with our companion walks over the last 8 years, but have only now offered this service to the public due to demand.

The same goes for over friendly dogs or dogs that have poor recall around dogs and people. We will set up training exercises and opportunities with our own demo dogs so they practice good decisions and always choose to bounce back to their owner rather than seek self employment and run over to anything and everything!

‼️Discounted saving of a 1:1 with the Head Trainer £55!

To book, please send us a message!

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