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

What High Five Puppy Skills clients say:

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)

Michelle and Alfie

Thank you Margaret for your practical advise and putting us on the right track to having a happy well behaved puppy. Alfie thoroughly enjoyed his session as much as we did. We both feel so much more confident now and will recommended you to any new puppy owners!

MICHELLE AND ALFIE

Michelle and Alfie

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

We recommend this puppy school especially for those who haven’t owned a dog before! We learnt so much and our puppy Irie did too! Thanks for everything

Jo and Irie

Margaret helped me understand how to set boundaries with my big pup (Great Dane) at home and work, how to get him more interested in eating and generally understand him better and the list goes on! I highly recommend Margaret and thoroughly enjoyed our one on one family session. Kim J

Kim and Ragnar

Margaret's courses were excellent. They've really helped us all as a family to become both more disciplined with Clifford and to develop lots of ways to keep him focused, entertained and thinking. Thanks Margaret.

Margie and Clifford

Margaret was fantastic with Harley. She also taught us to be better parents! We were doing so many things the wrong way. There’s peace at home now. I would highly recommend High Five Puppy School. Don’t wait until your pup is 14 weeks. The sooner the better.

Maria and Harley

Thank you Margaret for all the great advice and training for Cody. We learnt heaps and I'm sure Cody did too. He is very full on - as he demonstrated! so once we put all the training into effect I'm sure he will be a very well mannered boy who is a pleasure to be around. We can definitely recommend you to anyone who is looking for an excellent trainer.

Alison (and Cody)

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)

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

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