STARTS SEPTEMBER 1, 2026 · SIX-WEEK ONLINE COURSE · ANNA BARTOSIK · AUDITOR / SELF-STUDY · US$139
Puppy development is not a race. Build the foundations your puppy can actually use.
A new puppy can make every question feel urgent at once: sleep, biting, toileting, social experiences, alone time, handling, recall, the lead, the car. Puppy Kindergarten gives those questions an order. You will learn to read the puppy in front of you, arrange daily life so learning is possible, and teach practical skills without turning puppyhood into a checklist.
The aim is not a puppy who performs everything on schedule. It is a caregiver who can notice what this puppy needs, choose a useful next step, and change the environment before a difficult pattern receives more rehearsal.
- Read the puppy
Use body language and observable behavior to decide whether to continue, pause, or change the arrangement. - Design daily life
Build routines around sleep, toileting, play, settling, alone time, transport, and recovery. - Teach useful skills
Develop recall, loose-lead foundations, handling, four paws on the floor, and other behaviors that support everyday life.
Puppyhood feels chaotic when every behavior is treated as a separate emergency.
Biting is normal puppy behavior, but it still affects life with human hands and clothes. Social learning matters, but more exposure is not automatically better. A puppy needs sleep, yet settling cannot simply be demanded from an overtired learner. Alone time matters, but duration built faster than the puppy can manage does not become independence.
This course connects those questions. Anna shows how development, environment, the caregiver’s behavior, and the puppy’s current repertoire interact. You will work from what you can observe rather than from labels such as naughty, dominant, attention-seeking, or stubborn.
The route you will practise
- Observe first. Describe what your puppy does, when it happens, and which early signs tell you that the situation is becoming difficult.
- Protect the foundations. Check sleep, health, comfort, safety, recovery, and the puppy’s ability to move away before adding a training demand.
- Arrange the environment. Make the useful behavior easier to perform and reduce unnecessary rehearsal of the pattern you do not want.
- Teach in small steps. Build one practical behavior or routine at a time, with criteria the puppy can meet.
- Review and adjust. Let the puppy’s behavior determine whether to progress, repeat, pause, or seek additional support.
A six-section roadmap for real life with a puppy
1 · How puppies learn
Begin with learning principles, body-language essentials, observation on walks, toileting, puppy biting and play, and introducing a harness, collar, and lead.
2 · Social learning without an exposure checklist
Examine meetings with people, children, dogs, and puppies; balanced play; household objects; and traffic. The question is not only what the puppy encountered, but what the puppy learned during the encounter.
3 · Sleep, settling, movement, and sound
Work with quiet rest, settling, confinement, car travel, noises, and the foundations that make shared attention possible.
4 · Independence in achievable steps
Explore the conditions that support time apart, staying home alone, and gradual duration rather than waiting for distress to show that the step was too large.
5 · Everyday behavior skills
Teach four paws on the floor, recall, recall around distractions, and loose-lead foundations as useful behaviors—not tests of obedience.
6 · Care, enrichment, and the next stage
Finish with resource-guarding prevention, grooming and veterinary handling foundations, enrichment, and a plan for continuing after the course.
Practical work that follows you into the day
The course turns ordinary routines into information. You will compare what happens before and after sleep, record the conditions around toileting and biting, plan social experiences by quality rather than quantity, build alone-time duration gradually, and break everyday skills into smaller teaching steps.
Keep your first observations. The useful comparison is not your puppy against somebody else’s puppy. It is what this puppy can do now, under which conditions, and what has changed since your starting point.
Who will benefit
Puppy Kindergarten is for first-time and experienced puppy caregivers, guardians preparing for a new puppy, and trainers who want a more systematic foundation for puppy work. The lessons are practical enough to use at home and detailed enough to improve a professional trainer’s observation and planning.
The course supports training and daily-life decisions. It does not replace veterinary care or individualized assessment for pain, illness, safety concerns, or significant behavior change. Begin with a manageable current priority and work with the puppy in front of you.
Your instructor: Anna Bartosik
Anna holds a postgraduate certificate in Animal Psychology. Her experience includes puppy classes, shelter volunteering, and learning alongside trainers working with dogs, cats, horses, and zoo animals. Across that work, one question remains central: how can we change our own behavior and the environment so the learner has a clearer route to success?
In Puppy Kindergarten, Anna brings that question into the routines that shape a puppy’s day. Her teaching is warm, specific, and attentive to the human learner as well as the puppy.
What learners from earlier editions noticed
“The ‘sexy life skills’ are what I appreciate the most—especially learning to settle.”
Katherine Berry, Puppy Kindergarten learner
“The course is extremely well constructed, and Anna’s presence is radiant and engaging.”
Marion Terrée, trainer and Puppy Kindergarten learner
September Auditor edition
Questions before you join
Do I need training experience?
No. The course gives new caregivers a clear sequence and gives experienced trainers a structured way to analyse puppy development, daily routines, and skill teaching.
Must I finish each section within one week?
No. The six sections show the learning order. Pause, repeat, and return when your puppy needs more foundation; course access lasts one year.
Does socialization mean meeting as many people and dogs as possible?
No. The course asks what the puppy is learning, whether participation is safe and manageable, and what the puppy’s behavior says about the next step.
What if my puppy’s behavior may involve health, pain, or safety?
Use appropriate veterinary or qualified in-person support. The course can improve observation and planning, but it is not a substitute for diagnosis or individualized safety assessment.
Give puppyhood an order you can use.
Start with the puppy in front of you. Build one foundation, observe what changes, and let that evidence guide the next step.
This puppy kindergarten course is a nice one for trainers as well ! As a young trainer, I decided to take this class to enlarge my toolbox with puppies and take inspiration from some lessons. The class is so well constructed, and even if it’s a label, I found Anna radiant in her videos with her big smile ! (And I also loved her dog-patterned rain coat but maybe this comment is off topic ! 😀