Welcome to Through the Dogs Eyes
A far cry from old-school “obedience” classes where dogs are forced into compliance by jerking on leads and pushing bottoms down, our group classes are fun and engaging, where the focus is on helping you to understand how to motivate your dog to work with you. We teach you about why your dog does the things that they do, what it means and what you can do about it.
We can help you to prevent a lot of unwanted behaviours by supporting you in teaching your dog alternative, more desirable behaviours. You will also learn a lot about dog behaviour, including being able to recognise important body language signals that tell you how your dog is feeling and what they are ‘talking’ about.
Classes are held on Friday evenings at St Thomas’s Church, Aldridge WS9 8SL, Sunday mornings at Stonnall Community Centre, WS9 9EE and Monday evenings at Chase Terrace Community Centre, WS7 1JH. We are Kennel Club Affiliated so you will have the opportunity, if you attend our Superstars course and more advanced classes, to take the Kennel Club Good Citizen Dog Scheme assessments. These are not mandatory if you attend classes, but are an optional extra if you wish to work towards these nationally recognised awards with your dog.
Our class sizes are kept small to enable us to give you a high degree of individual attention. In addition, you will also receive the following if you book onto one of our courses:
Ongoing support via phone and email between classes for the course duration
A certificate, rosette and training treats pack for course completion (Puppy and Back to Basics courses)
Plenty of attention in class as each class is run by 2 experienced instructors
Weekly email detailing everything covered in classes along with demonstration videos
Private Facebook group so that you can keep in touch with your classmates, upload pictures and share your training experiences
Benefits of attending classes:
Teaching your dog to focus on you in the presence of other dogs
Meeting new people
Socialising your dog around other dogs and people
Camaraderie of a group setting
Visual demonstrations of exercises with our demo dog
Opportunity to buy dog related merchandise
Perfect Start Puppy Course
For puppies under and around 20 weeks
An ideal course to get you on the right track with your new puppy and to feel confident about how training should look. This course covers the following:
- Teaching puppy to know and respond to its name
- Laying the foundations of walking without pulling
- Coming back when called (recall)
- Building trust through handling
- How to promote calmness through mental stimulation
- Motivating your puppy through play
- How to socialise your puppy the right way and manage the pitfalls
- Confidence building and promotion
- Sit, down, stand, middle
- Appropriate greetings of people and other dogs (not jumping)
- The foundations of “leave it”
- Dog body language for beginners
…and lots more
6 week course @ £108.00
Payment plans available
Back to Basics build-up
A mixed class of puppies and adult dogs
A foundation course for anyone who would like to start from scratch with training, laying down the foundations. This course covers the following:
- Teaching your dog to know and respond to its name
- Laying the foundations of walking without pulling
- Coming back when called (recall)
- Building trust through handling
- How to promote calmness through mental stimulation
- Motivating your dog through play
- How to socialise your dog the right way and managing the pitfalls
- Confidence building and promotion
- Sit, down, stand, middle
- Appropriate greetings of people and other dogs (not jumping)
- The foundations of “leave it”
- Dog body language for beginners
…and lots more.
6 week course @ £108.00
Payment plans available
New dates and venue available!
Superstars
Puppies over 20 weeks and adult dogs
Our Super Stars course is for those humans/dogs who have either completed a foundation course with us or elsewhere so have some basic handling skills. This is an opportunity to develop and enhance your knowledge and training skills as this course covers the following:
- Perfecting that recall (off lead recalls around other people, dogs and distractions)
- Perfecting walking by your side without pulling (passing other dogs & people)
- Go round – an ideal solution for when your dog goes one way & you go the other!
- Touch – hands are good things! A great way to move your dog quickly without having to push them
- Settle – want to go the pub or cafe with your dog? Then this is the exercise for you
- Stay and wait – 2 very different outcomes and how to achieve them
- Leave – don’t touch that!
- Managing your dog around other dogs
- Muzzle training – why every dog needs to be comfortable with a muzzle
- Walking through doorways the polite way
- How to make grooming and handling a nice thing
- Frustration tolerance – why good things come to those who wait!
- Plus lots of relevant and useful information about all things ‘dog’
6 week course @ £108.00
Payment plans available
Client testimonials
Awards
We are delighted to have received the following awards.
Prestige Awards
Best Dog Training Business
2025/26
Central
LuxLife
Best Dog Training & Behaviour Business
2025
Midlands
Three Best Rated
Top 3 Dog Trainers
2023 – 2025
Walsall
