The Puppy Nanny

We enrolled our Nova (Labrador Retriever pup) in Nicola's Perfect Puppy course, and we have to say it has been an absolutely great experience! The class size is small, so Nicola is always attentive and answers any questions we had. Nova learnt basic but important commands and manners, and each lesson is effective, concise, with enough time to practice the new commands. He even made quite a few friends!

A few months in after bringing our miniature schnauzer puppy home and he was doing incredibly well. However, we felt that there were a few things we could do with a helping hand with. The puppy courses we'd looked at weren't the right option for us - he'd pretty much mastered all the basics already. That's when we got in touch with Nicola re her Puppy Nanny service. Nic would take our pup out once a week and work through specifics with him such as extended socialisation, recall, lead work et...

Having our training with Nicola has been a life changer for us. Nala had been anxious around strangers with no re-call but after a few sessions we were seeing huge improvements and it's been lovely to see Nala so relaxed. We benefitted from the training so much that we signed up for the group training class and we're finding that great too. Can't thank Nicola enough, she's been great and also arranges group dog walking once a month which has been nice for Nala to make some friends :)

Olly is our second Cockapoo pup. Our first, Archie went to puppy school with a different trainer who after five weeks of school I thought Archie's discipline hadn't improved much. Therefore, I was a little sceptical about enrolling Olly into puppy school. However, on enrolling and attending the Contented Canines Training School with my pup I was thrilled at the professional, no nonsense approach of training from Nicola and her team. I especially liked the small group of pups and owners so yo...

Having never owned a dog before, we really were novices. Nicola was recommended to us by our local vet so we booked onto the puppy training course when Maya, our chocolate Labrador, was 15 weeks old. We were both made very welcome and Maya enjoyed her lessons from week one. She came on in leaps and bounds, we practised everything we learnt throughout the week and she developed very quickly. Nicola gave us so much confidence, when we had very little knowledge. We are so pleased with Maya, she ...