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Welcome to High Five Puppy Skills

Puppy Training, Socialisation & Behaviour Workshops in Christchurch

A well-trained, confident, happy puppy - sound too good to be true?

Let Margaret van Oosten help you achieve your aim of living in harmony with a confident and well-adjusted puppy. Margaret offers exclusive one-on-one sessions followed by specialised group workshops covering socialisation, games and tricks.
 

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Why choose High Five Puppy Skills for your dog training needs:

  • A professional, committed and highly experienced puppy trainer
  • Individual and professional training to cater for the puppy and family needs
  • Indoor venue and backyard which is safe and secure for your puppy
  • The one-on-one course gives you and your puppy the essential basic skills
  • A fun puppy pack containing useful information
  • Flexibility of time to suit your schedule
  • Conveniently located in Avonhead, Christchurch
  • On-going support is just a phone call away!
Margaret Van Oosten is a member of the APDT: The Association of Professional Dog Trainers

Margaret van Oosten is a member of the
APDT: The Association of Professional Dog Trainers

What High Five Puppy Skills clients say:

Jo and Tilly
We learnt a lot from Margaret & came away with a bag of goodies & the confidence to put our puppy in a kennel which has gone well so far. She definitely knows her stuff. Thanks for a great session. From Jason, Jo & Tilly

Jo and Tilly

Kim and Charlie
My partner and I took our 7 month old french mastiff puppy Charlie to one of Margaret's one on one sessions. We would both highly recommend her as a trainer, we learnt a lot in one session! I think Charlie enjoyed herself as well. Thank you so much!

Kim and Charlie

Phillip, Keiko, Kenta (and Ellie)
Having tried a few different trainers, it was certainly refreshing to finally find someone who obviously loves dogs, and knew what they were doing. ​

Margaret had some great tips and tricks that helped us survive the puppy months.

Phillip, Keiko, Kenta (and Ellie)

Dina, George (and Lola)
Margaret gave us some great guidelines to follow that were easy to instigate into our family life.  Our kids have been thrilled to be able to help train Lola with the help of simple commands that you suggested.
 
Thanks to you we have been able to raise a happy, confident dog who generally follows instructions. We often get comments on how happy and well behaved Lola is.

Thank you Margaret!

Dina, George (and Lola)

Margaret has been great in helping us with our little fur baby Harley. From sleeping create set up, tricks, training & puppy socialisation we now have a very confident and smart pup. Thanks for all your help. 

Cortnee and Harley

Jean (and Chica)
So pleased that Margaret was recommended to train our Chica - a lovely spoodle puppy with attitude! Margaret gave practical advice, which has helped so much. The one on one session followed by the group classes were great!

Jean (and Chica)

Thanks Margaret, we have a happy puppy who is practicing all your great tips and techniques that we learnt from all your puppy courses

Suzy and Charlie

Margaret's intelligent assessment and advice that is specific to each puppy's individual character as well as her many fun exercises

Angelica and Lucy

I took my Border Collie pup to High Five with my 11 year old daughter. We learnt some cool ways to train our puppy for round the house routines along with many tricks. Margaret is a great trainer.

Nick and Luna

We went to see her with our puppy Nova, we have previously trained two dogs but after 11 years since puppy training thought we would refresh our memories. She gave us some great training ideas and techniques that we are using every day glad we went.

Beth and Nova

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