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Junior Puppy Trainer by Renee Patience, a Paws Academy Junior book. Colourful cover with a boy and a girl in the garden while Sully the puppy plays the cup game.

Junior Puppy Trainer

A Paws Academy Junior colouring and activity book for children aged 4 to 10

Children love the idea of training the puppy, and puppies love games. Put the two together without any rules, though, and it soon turns into chasing, grabbing and nipping, and the children end up told to leave the puppy alone.

Junior Puppy Trainer gives them the right games. Each of the 16 lessons comes with a short page to read together and a big colouring picture of Sully, the Paws Academy puppy, playing it properly. There are eight brain games from Puppy Club, all chosen because children can play them with an adult beside them, and 50 puzzle pages for when the puppy needs a rest.

Turn your children into junior puppy trainers. Colouring, lessons, games and puzzles that teach children aged 4 to 10 calm, simple training games to play with your puppy.

Children are some of the keenest trainers I meet, and with the right games they're brilliant at it. I picked the games in this book because they're calm, short and safe, and they teach the puppy to think.

Inside the book: 99 pages, 16 lessons, 50 puzzles. Print as many times as you like: a trainer's promise, a training star chart, a certificate and a fridge poster of the training rules.

What's inside

  • 16 lessons in three parts: how puppies learn, games to play, and being a great trainer

  • A big colouring page for every lesson, with girls and boys all the way through

  • How puppies learn: the magic word, tiny treats, short games and picking the right moment

  • Eight Puppy Club games: Find It, Garden Treasure Walk, Muffin Tin Mystery, Towel Treasure, Find the Human, Wait for the Throw, Find the Mat and the Box Game, plus Game Over for ending every game calmly

  • Being a great trainer: ending games calmly, staying patient, and a star chart for every game

  • Five of every puzzle: mazes, word searches, jumbles, dot-to-dots, spot the difference, counting, quizzes, good idea or not, and drawing and design pages

  • A short note for grown-ups on every lesson, and all the answers at the back

What's inside Junior Puppy Trainer: three real pages from the book.

Pages to print and keep

  • My trainer's promise

  • A training star chart

  • A Junior Puppy Trainer certificate

  • A fridge poster of our training rules

Why this book is different

  • Every picture shows the game played the right way, so colouring in teaches it too

  • The games come straight from Paws Academy Puppy Club, made simple for children

  • Treats go on the floor or the mat, never from an outstretched hand, so little fingers stay safe

  • Sully, the Paws Academy puppy, is on every colouring page, just like in the other Junior books

  • You can print it as many times as you like, so every child can have their own star chart

Who it's for

Children aged 4 to 10 who want to help train the family puppy, families who'd like calm games in place of chasing, and grandparents with a puppy and visiting grandchildren.

About the author: Renee Patience with her boxer Kookie. Qualified behaviourist and founder of Paws Academy Dog Training & Behaviour, Mayo. Over 30 years training dogs, Dog Trainer of the Year 2025 at the National Ireland Pet Awards, competed at Crufts and Olympia.

What you get

A 99-page A4 PDF, emailed to you straight after checkout. Print it at home, in black and white, as many times as you like for the children in your family.

For children aged 7 and up

Sully's Puppy Quest is my online game course for children. They help Sully the puppy through his first year over 8 levels and 24 short games, with a real-life mission to do with your own puppy (and you right beside them) and a certificate with their name on it for every level they finish. See Sully's Puppy Quest.

Junior Puppy Trainer

€9.99Price
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