If you love everything about dogs then this Dog Care, Grooming, and Training course bundle is for you!

Dog breeding, pet shops, vet clinics, dog training, canine behaviour therapist, dog grooming, dog boarding – these are just some examples of careers you may consider upon completion of our Dog Training, Care, and Grooming bundle course. Learn to groom dogs for better health and well-being; the different breeds suitable for which behaviour training; and know the science of dog care as you study its anatomy, physiology, nutrition and heath.

Course Aims:

• Determine the typical daily needs of a dog, both physical and psychological. Discuss the nature and scope of services available to dog owners.
• Describe the internal and external anatomy of a dog. Explain the standard physiology of a dog.
• Identify common health issues that impact on a dog’s health, wellbeing and longevity. Determine appropriate measures to prevent problems arising or respond to problems in the first instance when they do arise.
• Describe common ailments and optional treatments for those ailments.
• Compare differentiating characteristics across breeds of dogs, including both desirable and undesirable characteristics.
• Describe how dogs are bred and how the purity of breeds is controlled. Discuss the dog breeding industry and how to operate a dog breeding business.
• Explain ways in which dogs can be trained. Discuss how to successfully operate a dog training or behavioural consultancy business.
• Explain how to groom a dog. Determine how to successfully operate a dog grooming business.
• Explain the scope and nature of a wide range of products and services involved in the dog industry.
• Determine how to successfully operate a range of different dog service businesses.
• Describe how canine animals think and discuss the relevance of understanding canine psychology to people.
• Explain how canine animals communicate and formulate an understanding of possible ways that a human may communicate with a dog.
• Understand behaviours that are natural and predictable in canines and learn to recognise and understand signals that dogs give.
• Explain how dogs develop behavioural characteristics throughout stages of their life.
• Describe commonly occurring behavioural problems in dogs.
• Develop a program for training a new pet dog when it is brought into a household.
• Explain how to train a dog to perform predetermined actions upon command.
• Describe how the movement of dogs can be controlled, both through training and other methods.
• Describe how dogs can be trained to perform tasks required as a working dog, including a sheep dog, tracking dog, blind dog or substance detection dog.
• Discuss the scope and nature of grooming animals, including the animals that are commonly groomed, the situations in which they are groomed, equipment that is used and the tasks carried out by a groomer.
• Describe external anatomical structures and physiological processes of animals which are relevant to grooming.
• Describe how to manage the coats of different types of animals.
• Discuss tasks used in grooming animals that are supplementary to grooming the coat.
• Describe a range of techniques used to control a variety of different types of animals during grooming.
• Compare grooming techniques used for different types of dogs.
• Describe a range of techniques used to groom a variety of different types of animals other than dogs.
• Determine protocols for safety of both animals and groomers, when grooming different types of animals
• Explain how to groom dogs, cats, horses and a variety of other animals for a show.
• Explain how to establish or improve a grooming business to be more successful.

Course Outline

There are 3 modules in this course:

I. Dog Care

• • Introduction to Dog Care
  • Canine Biology
  • Dog Health Part 1
  • Dog Health Part 2 -Illnesses and Treatments
  • Dog Breeds
  • Breeding
  • Dog Behaviour and Training
  • Grooming
  • Other Dog Services

II. Animal Grooming

• • Scope and Nature of Grooming
  • Animal Biology
  • Caring for the Skin and Coat
  • Specialised Grooming Tasks Risks of Working with Animals
  • Handling Animals
  • Grooming Dogs
  • Grooming Exotic Animals
  • Safety in Grooming Workplace
  • Preparing for Showing
  • The Business of Grooming Planning a New Grooming Business

II. Dog Psychology and Training

• • Nature and Scope of Canine Psychology
  • Canine Senses
  • Understanding Natural Canine Behaviour
  • Canine Behavioural Development
  • Canine Behavioural Disorders
  • Basic Dog Training
  • Dog Obedience Training
  • Controlling a Dogs Movement
  • Training Working Dogs

When you have completed the lessons of your Certificate course, you will be given the option of taking the optional exam. It’s okay if you don’t want the exam, we still issue your Careerline Certificate. For Advanced Certificates however, the exam is compulsory (per module) and are included in the course fee.