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:

Kate and Caruso

Fantastic session with Margaret and our puppy Caruso. Thankyou for all your advise and contacts . We all learnt so much.

Kate and Caruso

Margaret is a wealth of knowledge. The value of her one on one session with puppy classes was WAY more than we paid. Her priceless advice about recall and all her tips and tricks have set us up with a great foundation. We know where to go if we have any issues with our wee guy through the years. Being in her own property meant I felt safe in the space and the sessions (no other random dogs coming to join the session!) had a lovely feel in that we got to know the other dogs and owners and enjoy our time together. Thanks from us and Chico 🐶.

Deb and Chico

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

Hi Margaret
A BIG thanks for your valuable time spent with us and Cosmo yesterday.
A very tired doggy last night and a couple, or four, wide-eyed owners!
We all learned some great tools to bring about a well mannered young dog through to adulthood.
Looking forward to our free session (thank you) with Janice.
We would be very happy to recommend your services.
And Cosmo loves his tug rope!
Kind regards
Dave and Lindy

Dave, Lindy and Cosmo

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)

So glad we met Margaret for some much needed puppy training. Such great tips and advice and easy to put them into practice. A happier pup as a result and pet owners who have a better understanding of their pup.

Mel and Zoe

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)

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)

Thank you Margaret! We had such fun at your puppy school and look forward to our next visit soon... we (family and Pipi) learned so much. thank you a zillion times over. Cath

Cath and Pipi

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

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