Place Board dog training for clearer, more effective training

Looking for a training aid to help improve recall, sit-stay, retrieves, and much more? Level up with an ADW Dog Place Board!

Eco-Conscious Dog Training Platform Designed by Professionals

Crafted from renewable wood and recycled grass, our Place Board Dog Training Platform is the eco-conscious choice for dog trainers and enthusiasts who value quality. Designed and used by a professional dog trainer, this sturdy and durable platform helps your dog develop confidence in staying on target—perfect for gundog training, obedience, and sports dogs. Built to last through outdoor conditions, it’s treated to withstand wet environments, making it ideal for both indoor and outdoor training sessions.

Why Choose Our Place Board?

• Sustainable Materials: Constructed using recycled grass and renewable wood, promoting an eco-conscious lifestyle.
• Durable & Weather-Resistant: The platform is designed to last, offering superior durability compared to cheaper alternatives.
• Trusted by Trainers: Used by professional dog trainers in real classes to develop obedience, targeting, and drive.
• Versatile Use: Ideal for training gundogs, sports dogs, and obedience routines, and doubles as a photo prop for groomers or home training tool.
• Customization Available: We offer personalization options for your place board without any delay to our fast processing times. Make your board truly unique with custom touches while still receiving your order quickly.
• Quick Shipping: All boards are ready to ship, processed quickly, and sent via Royal Mail 48 for prompt delivery.

Key Features:

• Stable and Raised: Provides a stable platform that enhances dog focus and confidence in various training exercises.
• Non-Slip Surface: Covered in recycled artificial grass to ensure grip and avoid the use of virgin plastic.
• Rectangular Design: Measures 60cm x 40cm, guiding your dog’s direction and ensuring proper obedience posture.
• Outdoor & Indoor Use: Timber frame is treated for outdoor durability, with rounded corners for safety and a quality finish.

Have you ever wondered how to communicate what you want to your dog?

You know you want to train an exercise, but you just can’t find a way to tell the dog what it is you want them to do in order for them to succeed?

For instance, you ask your dog to sit and stay, but they creep forward when you step away—exactly what you didn’t want. But how on earth can you tell the dog that doesn’t speak your language, what you want?!

How Place Boards improve training: targets are a shared language

This is where The Place Board comes in! Focus your training with a target which improves understanding and reduces frustration. 

Place board training is a form of target training. Target training is used throughout many disciplines where complex interactions between animals and humans are required.

Using a place board as a target training mat in your practice cuts out the confusion by allowing us to break down behaviours such as ‘sit’ and ‘stay’ in dog obedience as well as more complex exercises found in gundog and agility work, into smaller steps making it easier to communicate what we want to our dogs.

What’s rewarded will be repeated – The key to advanced Placeboard Training

With advanced placeboard training, breaking behaviours down into steps allows dogs to rehearse doing the right behaviour, meaning it becomes reinforced. As your training progresses by adding new challenges or not using the board, the dog remembers the successful repetitions in your foundational place board training meaning that they're more likely to succeed when called upon to perform that particular behaviour in future.

How Placeboards for dog training work

• Because the platforms are raised and have a textured top, they feel a very different place for the dog to be than the surrounding area during training. In our foundation training you can teach your dog this is a positive place that they want to hang out on; you can then use the board as a tool in your training as a way to clearly communicate to the dog the behaviour you want them to do.
  

• The boards can teach the dog where they need to be in relation to the handler. For example: To teach a dog that recall means come right back to the handler and avoid a dog that returns but dances just out of reach, you can put a place board by your feet paired with calling your dog back to you. Now they are running back to a target right in front of you.
• The texture of the mat on top provides a tactile contrast to the surrounding surface so there will be a perceptible difference to the dog having all four paws in the right place versus offering the wrong position. For example: when practising sit & stay we can teach the dog that when they place all four paws on the boards is when they earn a reward, whereas if they step off or creep forward, they will not earn a treat so the dog will be less likely to offer incorrect behaviour in the future.

Achieve rock-solid steadiness, reliable recalls, and precise retrieves with Place Board Training

Adding a dog training platform to your tool kit you’ll see a dog that is excited, motivated, and eager to learn increasingly complex drills. Truly a game-changer; making it easy to own a well-trained working dog.

Don't just take our word for it, check out what our customers in the UK and overseas say in their reviews.

Quality Design, Trusted by Professionals

The design and build team includes a professional dog trainer who is a member with distinction of the Institute of Modern Dog Trainers (IMDT). With extensive first-hand experience of using place boards for dog training in classes and training their own dogs the specifications of Anglian Dog Works’ place boards are well thought out and you can be assured of a quality product.  Our boards are crafted with the highest standards to ensure durability and effectiveness. Trusted by trainers in the UK and abroad, our dog place boards are built to last and deliver outstanding results.

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• Dimensions: 60 cm x 40 cm x 10cm (L x W x H) which comfortably seats all breeds
• Material: Treated Timber & Recycled Artificial Grass (Non-Slip)
• Weight: ~5 kg
• Suitable for the indoors and outdoors

Please note: Whilst all the boards are made to the same specifications and high standards, due to our heartfelt environmental obligation with regard to recycling materials, the appearance of the surface of the place boards may slightly differ from the listing photos as well as contain small amounts of sand from their previous life as sports pitches.

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Note: Due to the space available (Place Boards L100mm x H37mm, Pivot Boxes L100mm x H50mm, Position Boxes L100mm x H100mm) personalisation is limited to a maximum of 2 lines.

Or for logos/bold high-contrast images, email a high-quality PNG file to info@angliandogworks.com immediately after purchase.

Space available (Place Boards L100mm x H37mm, Pivot Boxes L100mm x H50mm, Position Boxes L100mm x H100mm)

Yes, 2 or more and automatically receive a MULTI-BUY DISCOUNT saving you 5% off each item when you “view cart & checkout”.  

Please note: Place Boards weigh around 5kg each. Shipping conditions are set by price, because as the order value increases, so does the weight.

Yes, absolutely! If you would like more than 12 boards, which exceeds the conditions set out in our shipping policy this can be arranged by emailing us directly for special delivery.

If you have any further questions or to get in touch to request special delivery, please don't hesitate to contact us at info@angliandogworks.com.

It is Anglian Dog Works’ ethos to make environmentally conscious and responsible choices when we choose materials; in line with our business’ values, these place boards are mostly constructed with renewable or recycled materials.

The tops are made of sturdy OSB board and the dog training place boards dimensions measure the industry standard: Metric, 61cm x 38cm/ Imperial, 24” x 15”, the place board size comfortably seats all breeds. The platforms are constructed with timber; the wood is treated making it suitable for outdoor use. The board is covered in non-slip artificial grass.

Professional venues and events lift nearly new artificial grass often after a single use or a set number of years for insurance purposes. Due to the difficulty in separating the material into raw components, after use artificial grass is usually destined for landfill. Collaborating with a local tradesperson Anglian Dog Works have been able to develop a unique reconditioning process so that instead the artificial grass starts a new life as the recycled surface on the boards. 

Please note: Whilst all the boards are made to the same specifications and high standards, due to our heartfelt environmental obligation with regard to recycling materials, the appearance of the surface of the place boards may slightly differ from the listing photos as well as contain small amounts of sand from their previous life as sports pitches.