Pet Dog Obedience Training

Essential Canine Life Skills Ltd teaches you and your dog exactly what it says on the tin. Our awardwinning brand training will help you establish positive boundaries using modern methods causing no pain to your dog. We pride ourselves in helping our clients achieving a well-mannered dog in the house. Simply put, if you have a well-behaved, well-mannered dog you can teach it to do anything you want!

Our brand training will help you establish positive boundaries in a non-trauma way, causing no pain to your dog. Your trainer will help you either through classes, one-to-one or one of our bespoke training packages. If you are looking for support for your beloved pet you have come to the right place.

Agility Training

Here at Essential Canine Life Skills Ltd we are fortunate enough to have one of the top handlers in the country mentoring all of our Agility training. With HQ at our home of the Essex Dog Training Agility & Obedience Club, we are able to train all levels and all types of handling. 

Whether you are looking to start Agility for fun, or if you want to compete, or are already a seasoned competitor, you have come to the right place. We also offer a training and mentoring service for any trainers looking to offer Agility as a service and our popular ‘Train the Trainer’ Agility courses can be found on our Events page.  

Gun Dog Training

We are delighted to have the amazing AODT supporting our gun training. Please contact Alicia’s Obedience Dog Training directly to discuss your specific needs.

Scent Work

We are currently looking for an experienced, reputable scent work training organisation to become an affiliate – if you are interested please email  to discuss further.

Childrens Training

Children’s dog training sessions are an excellent way of forming a great bond and a friendship for life.

Some of our franchisee’s offer specialist childrens classes either regularly or adhoc, all trainers will carry a full DBS check. Dogs & children will learn a variety of safe handling techniques, general obedience, tricks and other fun stuff to do with the dogs. All taught in a fun way.

We are eager to inspire our future dog owners and trainers and the emphasis will be on fun. The children will have their very own award scheme to work through, as part of our awardwinning brand.

See below for your nearest Children’s class

Trick Training

Trick Training can be an amazing way of forming an amazing bond with your dogs. We also use trick training with some of our aggression cases. With the use of tricks and clickers your trainer can work with you to teach your dogs various tricks which will help you handle event he most difficult of  dogs, whilst improving their confidence. No harsh handing is required and never used.

So whether you are just wanting to do something with your dog and learn some new cool tricks we can cover it all. Some of our franchises are affiliates to National Canine Trick Star Awards (NCTSA).

Trick dogs returning to Virtual Training