Dog Psychology and Training - Online Course

Dog Psychology and Training is a course that allows you to learn all about Man’s best friend.

If you love dogs and want to work with them as a career or simply perform your own puppy training at home for your furry friend then this course is perfect for you!

Working with dogs can be in positions such as dog breeders, dog groomers, dog trainers, dog therapists, dog walkers or pet sitters, dog boarding or kennel assistants, pet shop assistants and pet rescue attendants.

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Course Outline
Course Code: 
BAG221
Duration: 
100 hours - Access for 12 months
Delivery: 
Online & Correspondence
Certificate: 
Statement of achievement
Lesson Structure: 
  1. Nature and Scope of Canine Psychology
  2. Canine Senses
  3. Understanding Natural Canine Behaviour
  4. Canine Behavioural Development
  5. Canine Behavioural Disorders
  6. Basic Dog Training
  7. Dog Obedience Training
  8. Controlling a Dogs Movement
  9. Training Working Dogs
Aims - the learning objectives of the course: 
  • 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.