Professional Puppy Training in Longbridge & Online - Tailored Guidance for Growing Puppies
At Woofology, we provide science-based, ethical puppy training in Longbridge that helps your puppy grow into a confident, well-mannered companion who listens in any environment. Our approach focuses on positive reinforcement, relationship building, and real-life learning. We deliver supportive one-to-one coaching, along with the option of puppy training classes to reinforce skills in a controlled setting. Clients across the area choose us for modern, kind training, and we also support families looking for puppy training in Birmingham and online.
One-to-One Puppy Training
Woofology offers a modern, reward-based approach to puppy training that focuses on helping you understand your puppy clearly, kindly, and confidently. Our one-to-one training is personalised to your puppy, your home environment, and your lifestyle, ensuring learning happens without overwhelm or unnecessary pressure.
Training begins with a foundations-first approach, allowing your puppy to develop the skills they need to thrive in everyday life before progressing into more challenging situations.
What’s Included in the One-to-One Puppy Package
Our structured one-to-one puppy training package is typically delivered across four sessions, spaced to suit your puppy’s development:
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An initial two-hour consultation
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Three 90-minute follow-up sessions to build on progress and support real-life learning
Session structure and length may be adapted slightly to suit the individual puppy and owner. If a puppy is overtired, overwhelmed, or not in the right frame of mind to learn on the day, sessions may be shortened and unused time is carried over to future appointments. This ensures training always prioritises welfare, focus, and long-term success, rather than rigid timekeeping.
Sessions are tailored to your puppy’s stage of development and may include:
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Calm behaviour and settling skills
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Engagement and focus
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Handling and cooperative care
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Lead skills and recall
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Confidence-building
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Supporting a smooth transition into home and family life
This flexible, puppy-led structure allows learning to progress at a pace that truly supports your puppy, helping to build strong foundations that last.
What We Cover in Your Initial Session
Your initial session is designed to give you everything you need to start your puppy’s training journey with clarity and confidence. This session is typically delivered online, allowing us to spend focused, uninterrupted time understanding your puppy, your home, and your lifestyle before progressing to in-person training.
Rather than jumping straight into exercises, we begin by setting the right foundations for learning, ensuring your puppy is physically, mentally, and emotionally ready to succeed.
During your initial session, we will cover:
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How to train using positive reinforcement and play for effective, long-term learning
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How to build a strong bond so your puppy is motivated, engaged, and keen to listen
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Lifestyle and routine guidance to support calm behaviour and healthy development
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Holistic nutrition and feeding considerations, helping reduce overarousal, stress, and unwanted behaviours
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How to manage and redirect common puppy behaviours, including biting, chewing, jumping, and overexcitement
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Toilet training guidance
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How to structure your puppy’s environment to prevent unwanted behaviours from developing
This foundations-first approach ensures that when practical training begins, your puppy is in the right frame of mind to learn, making the process smoother, faster, and more effective. This session is not about drilling exercises, but about setting the right foundations so training is effective when it begins.
After your first session, you’ll receive our comprehensive Puppy Pack, including step-by-step guidance and resources to support your training between sessions and help you stay consistent and confident at home.
What We Cover in Follow-Up Sessions
Your follow-up sessions build on the foundations from your initial visit and focus on real-world skills and emotional development. These sessions can include:
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Essential cues such as sit, down, stay and settle
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Appropriate early socialisation is essential - dogs cannot feel confident in situations they’ve never learned to understand
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Habituation to various environments so your pup learns to stay calm and confident
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Loose lead walking
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Training around distractions so your dog can listen reliably in any environment
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Handling confidence for grooming, vet visits and everyday care
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Preventing common behaviour problems, including separation anxiety and reactivity
Puppy Training Pricing
£420
(£67.50 Saving)
Puppy Package
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6.5 Hours
£150
Initial Consultation
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2 Hours
£75
Follow Up Sessions
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Per Hour
£90
Pre Puppy
Zoom
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1.5 Hours
Do I Need Classes or One-to-One Training?
At Woofology, puppy training is built around creating strong foundations first, before progressing to more distracting environments. Most puppies benefit from a combination of one-to-one training and group classes, but they are not interchangeable and serve very different purposes.
Your one-to-one sessions provide tailored, individual guidance for behaviours that cannot be effectively addressed in a group setting. This includes toilet training, crate training, chewing, biting, early foundation behaviours, and helping both you and your puppy understand how learning works. Training typically begins in calm, familiar settings and may take place in your home or other appropriate environments, allowing puppies to build confidence without overwhelm before gradually introducing distractions.
Our Puppy Classes Work Differently
Our group puppy classes are only available to owners who have completed a one-to-one puppy training package with us. This ensures that every puppy and owner attending class is working from the same foundation, allowing sessions to focus on proofing skills, not teaching them for the first time.
Group classes are designed to:
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Proof skills learned in one-to-one sessions in a more distracting, real-world environment
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Help puppies develop social intelligence and learn appropriate dog-to-dog and dog-to-human interaction
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Build confidence through structured, supported socialisation
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Connect with other puppy owners in your local community
Classes are scheduled when a suitable group of puppies is ready, rather than running continuously, ensuring the right environment for learning and social development.
Families looking for puppy training in Birmingham often choose this structured, step-by-step approach to achieve the best long-term results and avoid common behavioural issues later in life.
Why Choose Woofology for Puppy Training
Woofology is led by a qualified and ethical dog trainer who specialises in positive reinforcement methods. Our approach is rooted in science, welfare and long-term success, and we support puppies across Longbridge, Northfield, Rednal, Rubery, Cofton Hackett and wider Birmingham. We also offer our services online.
A key part of our puppy training philosophy comes from extensive experience working with reactive dogs. Many behavioural issues seen later in life stem from a lack of early socialisation and confidence-building. If a puppy isn’t given the right foundations, they can’t feel confident in situations they don’t yet understand. Our puppy training focuses on preventing these issues before they develop, setting your dog up for a calmer, more confident future.
Clients choose us for:
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Tailored, one-to-one coaching adapted to your lifestyle
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Kind, modern and scientifically backed methodology
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Experience with a wide range of breeds and behavioural needs
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Local expertise in puppy training in Birmingham and the surrounding areas
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Clear guidance that builds confidence for both puppies and their families
