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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

I heartily recommend High Five Puppy Skills. Margaret is so knowledgeable and was adept at training both us and our Spoodle pup. And it was great fun. The one on one session and the workshops have been a fantastic start to our relationship with our new pup. Thank you, Margaret!

Jane and Tilly

Kim and Ragnar
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

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

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)

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

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)

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

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

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