The Family Dog Club Ltd

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The Family Dog Club Ltd Fun dog training. Award winning puppy classes, Gun Dog Classes, puppy specialists, Gun Dog Training and 1-2-1 behaviour help.

We love working with people and dogs www.thefamilydogclub.co.uk

A family run business, Gavin and Jeanette, we are both fully qualified dog trainers, and Jeanette a behaviourist, we only use kind, reward based methods to train dogs. Helping you to enjoy your dogs is what our job is all about. We work with both owners and dogs to resolve and understand any behavioural issues they may have, to help them feel more confident and secure and to give owners the confidence they need to train their dogs. Training dogs isn’t all about obedience, its about having a strong relationship with your dog whereby they want to work with you. We are all about having fun, and want owners to enjoy the experience as much as the dogs too. We work with a wide range of dogs and issues owners are having. We also train a lot of dogs for fun, to give them enriched lives, and in turn their owners. Behaviour Consultations are required when we need to change the behaviour of the dog and when we need to work in conjunction with a vet to look at various options of diet changes, herbal medicines, or in some cases pharmacology, to help improve the dogs life. We put some management practices in place along with a training plan, we will also look to have regular catch ups to discuss their progress, as well as on-going support.

1-2-1 Consultations -

For Training, Reactive Dogs and dogs that are aroused by the environment we offer 1-2-1 consultations here in our field, we discuss with you what could be going on and look to help you understand your dog in terms of body language, threshold, environments etc. We then work through with you what you are able to do to help your dog and reduce the behaviour or help to build their confidence. We also offer 1/2 hour social sessions with selected dogs to help your dogs to learn how to play confidently and politely with other dogs. We run a number of classes through-out the week, with 3 classes on a Saturday, regular Sunday classes, Monday and Wednesday night classes. Full Members of the IMDT (Institute of Modern Dog Trainers) –

Open College Network Level III qualification 'Principles of Dog Training and Behaviour’

Accredited Behaviourist under the IMDTB (Institute of Modern Dog Trainers and Behaviourists). Open College Network Level IV Accreditation under the IMDTB, 'Canine Behaviour Modification and Consultancy'

Full members of the Pet Professional Guild

11/10/2026

Group Dog Walk in Exbury Gardens, followed by beginners Gun Dog workshop for puppies and dogs in the New Forest. Gav Muldoon

11/10/2026

Puppy Natter this morning and met some lovely pups!

We talked about -

The importance of working with a professional for at least the first few months.
Stress signals and what they mean
Puppy biting
What I’d consider to be the 3 most important things to train/teach your puppy
What socialising is
Fair play between puppies and or dogs.

The problem now a days is there is too much information out there, and a lot of it is conflicting.

After working with thousands of dogs, I’d say every new puppy owner should

Understand the breed or breeds they have, this helps to explain why they do certain things, or struggle in certain environments.

Understand subtle stress signals and what they mean, also the fall out from not knowing them.

Start to understand body language and what their puppy looks like when worried, scared, anxious, tired, cold, hungry.

What/why/how to train the foundations:

Default behaviour (sit, down, stand)
Recall
Stay

As well as
Out
Loose lead
Follow me
Let’s go

You get all these right, socialise properly and have a training plan that works for you and your dog you’ll be able to enjoy your puppy. Very often the overwhelm comes from not knowing where to start.

We encourage owners to enjoy the dog they have, bring the character out and utilise the dogs skills, motivation and character.

If you’d like more info on how we can help please get in touch or pop along to the next puppy natter (I’ll sort date this week)

Gundog workshops Sunday 11th October 10-12 The foundations Whistle commands Steadiness practice Learning the practical a...
28/09/2026

Gundog workshops

Sunday 11th October
10-12

The foundations
Whistle commands
Steadiness practice
Learning the practical aspects of retrieving and hunting

Afternoon 1-3

Advanced

Steadiness to shot and marking
Stetting up split retrieves
Introduction to blind retrieve

£45 per class limited spaces please email [email protected] to book.

Beginners for anyone who hasn’t done gun dog or just starting and advanced for those who have done GunDog before.

28/09/2026

Little food for thought and why there is no manual for dog training. Each dog and their human is different.

Today’s wonderful puppy graduates Passing out in style 😎😎🙌🏻 🥳🥳
26/09/2026

Today’s wonderful puppy graduates
Passing out in style 😎😎🙌🏻 🥳🥳

26/09/2026

Looking forward to seeing everyone in class today!

I’ll be advertising the Gun Dog Workshops later today/tomorrow with more details and how to book!

13/09/2026

The Gun Dog Workshops will be on Sunday 11th October! 2 hour workshop for beginners wanting to know all about gundog.

Gav will also run another that day for the more experienced gun doggers (sorry had too) the same day in the afternoon!

More info to come xx

12/09/2026

Gun Dog peeps

If Gav was to do a few videos for you re training. What would you like him to cover?

10/09/2026

Missy has that Friday feeling a day early! Excuse my laugh! 😂

Address

Southampton
SO451AF

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 8pm
Tuesday 8am - 6pm
Wednesday 8am - 8pm
Thursday 8am - 8pm
Friday 8am - 8pm
Saturday 8am - 3pm

Telephone

+447815867538

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