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🏆 Twice Voted UK Best Dog Trainers by the public
🥇 5x Winner Dog/Puppy Trainer/Behaviourist of the Year
🌟 500+ 5 star Reviews
🎓 Qualified and Accredited
🐶 5000+ Dogs
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04/08/2026

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Another awesome new 5 Star Review from another happy client and dog super team! ❤️

03/08/2026

🌟 Confidence Week – Sunderland 🐾

Tonight's puppy classes in Sunderland were all about growing confidence through fun, positive experiences and letting each puppy explore the world at their own pace.

This week's confidence stations included:

🐾 Agility equipment – building body awareness and confidence in movement (we definitely have a few future agility stars in the making! ⭐)

🌟 Confidence path – exploring different obstacles, textures, and surfaces to encourage curiosity and resilience.

🎾 Ball pit – learning that moving, unfamiliar surfaces can be fun!

🧩 Snuffle mats & puzzle games – building problem-solving skills and encouraging calm, independent thinking.

📦 Cardboard chaos – investigating noisy boxes to make novelty positive rather than worrying.

🐶 Positive muzzle training – introducing the muzzle and making it a valuable life skill.

🐾 Paws up – developing coordination, confidence, and body awareness.

🐕 Scentwork - encouraging puppies to use their incredible noses to search and sniff. Scentwork is a fantastic confidence builder, giving puppies the chance to solve problems.

Every puppy was free to explore at their own pace, celebrating every little success along the way. We also finished the evening chatting about how these confidence games can easily be recreated at home, and shared some tips on keeping our pups safe and comfortable during the warmer weather. ☀️💛

Watching puppies become curious, and even brave, is one of the best parts of Confidence Week! 🐾✨

28/07/2026

🐾New Week 1 in Sunderland🐾

A huge welcome to our latest recruits to our 2nd Monday night puppy class! 🐾💛

This week we welcomed another lovely group of puppies and their humans to the family, and we couldn't be happier to be starting this journey with them.

Week one is always one of our favourites. It's where new friendships are made, the foundations are laid, and puppies and their owners begin learning how to work together as a team.

Every puppy brings their own unique personality, and we love getting to know each and every one of them.
It was wonderful to see everyone getting involved and having fun while learning together. We know these little pups are going to achieve so much over the coming weeks.

Next week is one of the highlights of the course… Confidence Week! 🎉 We'll be introducing lots of fun activities designed to help our puppies explore the world at their own pace, build resilience, and grow into confident, happy dogs.

A big welcome once again to our newest families. Thank you for choosing us to be part of your puppy's journey. We can't wait to see you all again next week!

27/07/2026

🐾 Week 4 in Sunderland 🐾

Week 4 puppy class tonight with our two gorgeous girlies for the first puppy class of a Monday evening! 🐾💕

We're now into the second half of our 6-week puppy course, and it's brilliant to see the foundations we've been building over the last few weeks really starting to come together. The puppies are becoming more confident, the owners are growing in confidence too, and those little training wins are becoming more frequent each week.

Tonight we covered some really practical life skills, including teaching "paw" for handling and grooming, building on our "leave" cue, introducing the all-important "drop" cue, playing our "What's This?" recall game, and finishing with some loose lead walking.

The progress these two have made has been lovely to watch, and it's a real credit to the time and effort their owners are putting in between classes. Consistency really is the secret ingredient!

Next week is one of my favourite sessions of the course... Confidence Week! We'll be introducing lots of fun, novel experiences to help these pups grow into resilient, adaptable dogs. I can't wait to see how they get on! 🐶✨

21/07/2026

New Sunderland Puppy Graduates 🎓🐾

Our second Monday evening puppy class has officially graduated! What a brilliant group to finish another 6 week journey with.

In our final session we covered our nose to tail health checks before finishing with some of our favourite games, including bed games, toy Switch, recall and loose lead walking. It was lovely to see everything come together.

One thing I've really loved about this class is the questions the owners have asked. I always say trainers never stop learning, and being challenged with thoughtful questions keeps us learning too. Those conversations are such an important part of puppy class.

🐾 Murphy - is a gorgeous boy who certainly likes to make himself heard! 😆 Over the last 6 weeks he's done brilliantly with all of the games, while we've also supported his family with his frustration barking and helping him learn to settle more calmly at home.

🐾 Max - may be gettint big in size, but he's a real gentle giant. His family's biggest goal was loose lead walking, knowing he'll only get stronger as he grows. Luckily, his love of food has made him a fantastic student and it's been great seeing his progress.

🐾 Joe - might be little, but he has energy to spare! His family wanted help teaching him how to settle and switch off when excitement takes over. Week by week we've started to see him make calmer choices, and it's been lovely watching his confidence grow.

This class has been amazing. We've celebrated successes, but we've also had honest conversations about the harder parts of puppy ownership when things don't quite go to plan. The support, openness and fantastic questions from everyone have made this such a rewarding group to teach.

I really will miss this class, both the puppies and their owners. Thank you for your hard work, your trust and for making every Monday evening such a pleasure. Congratulations on your well earned graduation! 🎓🐾

20/07/2026

🐾 Week 3 in Sunderland🐾

Our first Monday night puppy class in Sunderland has now reached Week 3, which means these lovely pups will be soon heading into the second half of the course!

One of the best parts of this stage is seeing everyone's personalities really start to shine. We're getting to know which puppy's unique personality and character.

This week's class built on things we've learned so far, and introduced a couple of new games, introducing "Hand Touch" which is great way of getting our dogs to move away from distractions and improve focus, adding the "Bed" cue to our settling work, developing impulse control further with "Leave", practising another fun recall game called "Duck and Dive", and finishing with some "Drunk Walking" to help lay the foundations for loose lead walking.

Every game has a purpose, but the real magic comes from watching the bond between each puppy and their owner grow stronger with every session.

We're excited to see what the second half of the course brings for this fantastic group of puppies. They're all making brilliant progress, and we can't wait to watch their confidence continue to grow.

💬 Now it's over to you. We would love to hear what unique personality traits your dog has. Let us know in the comments 🐶💛

14/07/2026

🐾Week 5 puppy class tonight in Sunderland! 🐾

It's hard to believe we're already onto week 5 of the course. The weeks really do seem to fly by, and it's been fantastic watching these puppies grow in size and confidence, and their owners grow in confidence alongside them.

This evening we continued building on the practical skills we've been working on throughout the course. We practised "paw" to help make handling and grooming easier, challenged our "leave" cue by making it more difficult, introduced and developed a reliable "drop" cue, had plenty of fun with our "What's This?" recall game, and finished the session with some lovely loose lead walking.

The progress these puppies are making is a credit to the time and effort their owners are putting in at home. It's always rewarding to see those training sessions outside of class paying off each week.

Next week is our final class for this group of puppies, and I honestly can't believe how quickly this course has gone. I'm looking forward to celebrating everything these pups and their owners have achieved over the last six weeks.

I'd love to know… what's been the biggest achievement for you and your puppy since starting training? Let us know in the comments! 🐶💙

13/07/2026

🐾Week 2 with our two gorgeous girls 🐾

Following on from their fantastic first session last week, our two newest recruits were back tonight and ready to learn!

We started by building on the games we introduced in week 1, we introduced the bed which builds on from settle that they learned last week, and we started to teach the impulse control skill. We then taught the heel position which is another foundation for loose lead walking. We built on the eye contact game, getting our puppies to come and look for us, and then we finished on the introduction to toy play. These games help develop calmness, engagement, focus and the foundations for everyday life skills.

The girls absolutely smashed everything we asked of them this evening, so we couldn't resist introducing a couple of new games too, as extra learning.

First up was "Airplane", one of our favourite calming games that encourages puppies to slow down when excited.

We also introduced "The Counting Game", which helps build value in returning to their owner and encourages puppies to choose to check back in with us, even when there are exciting things going on around them.

To finish the session, we talked about how pairing a game of "Intro to Toy Play" with "Airplane" is a fantastic way to help regulate our dogs' emotions. Toy play gives our puppies an outlet for excitement and interaction, while Airplane helps them bring their arousal levels back down afterwards. Learning to move between excitement and calm is an important life skill, and one that will benefit them throughout their lives.

We are so proud of both girls and their owners. Their progress in just two sessions has been fantastic.

🧸 Now we would love to hear from you. Every puppy has that one toy they can't live without! What's your pup's current favourite? We'd love to hear in the comments! 👇

Address

Daverson Hall, Elmwood Avenue, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Gosforth
NE136PX

Website

https://www.southshieldsdogtrainer.co.uk/

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