Coming Away From Exciting Things – Level One

Teaching your puppy to come away from distractions is an essential part of successful puppy training and the foundation for reliable recall training. Puppies naturally want to investigate exciting smells, people, other dogs, movement and everything happening around them, so expecting your puppy to simply ignore distractions is unrealistic. This lesson introduces Level One of teaching your puppy to disengage from something exciting and voluntarily return their attention to you. Developing this skill early supports puppy recall, loose lead walking, lead training, socialisationand calm behaviour around other dogs and people. This science-based puppy course teaches you how to build engagement before expecting reliable behaviour in increasingly distracting environments. By practising recall traininggradually, your puppy learns that coming back to you doesn't always mean the fun ends and that choosing you can be just as rewarding as exploring the environment. These foundations can help with puppies that ignore their owners, pull towards other dogs, become overexcited on walks or struggle to focus during puppy training. Whether you're searching for how to teach puppy recall, how to get a puppy to come when called, puppy recall training, loose lead walking, puppy socialisation, puppy training around distractions or the best puppy training course, this lesson provides an important first step towards developing a puppy that can confidently explore the world while still choosing to come back to you as part of How Not To F*ck Your Puppy Up from the Institute of Applied Canine Science.

How do I get my puppy to come back when they're distracted?
Learn how to build puppy recall around distractions progressively with the step-by-step recall training programme inside How Not To F*ck Your Puppy Up.

Why does my puppy ignore me when they see another dog?
Discover how excitement, socialisation, environmental distractions and learning affect your puppy's attention, and how effective puppy training can teach them to disengage and return their focus to you.

How do I teach my puppy to come away from other dogs and exciting things?
Build reliable puppy recall, engagement, loose lead walking and calm behaviour around distractions with the science-based puppy training course from the Institute of Applied Canine Science.