Re: Puppy parties

Helen Tottey — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:59:48 GMT

Loads of fun to do and agree that the Gwen Bailey book is brilliant.

I think you have to be careful to select the puppies, the aim is to help socialise and if you have a group of bouistrous puppies and a one that is really scared, you need to handle it well to ensure the scared one isn't damaged for life!

Agree about going to watch some, if you can't then the other thing to do is contact local good trainers and behaviourists for advice.

Personally i think you have to learn yourselft while doing them, have the basics covered but all parties are different (diff character of puppies and owners) so no 2 are the same.

Good luck

Re: Puppy parties

Jo Mackenzie — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:15:22 GMT

Have a search on here for puppy parties, there have been a few threads about them. My advice would be to try and find somewhere that is currently running good puppy parties and see if you can go along for a couple of sessions to get an idea of how they are run. Read up as much as you can on puppy socialisation and development (Gwen Baileys book The Perfect Puppy is brilliant) Keep your class size fairly small (I usually go for 6 maximum) and write up some notes beforehand so you can give out information in a clear and concise way so as not to overwhelm clients (if I dont have notes to follow I end up babbling on for ages, notes keep me on track!) Puppy parties are great fun once you get into them and I really miss running them now Im locuming! Hope that helps, message me if you need any more information I might be able to help you with :)