dog training

[johnbjohn]

Can anyone tell me how i can do couses in dog training, and to end up as a dog trainer

[TIGGERLIT]

HI if you are in the uk, then you can contact the kennel club their website is www.kennelclub.co.uk
they are really good and if you passed through them then they would recommened you on their website. you could also try some colleges, like the animal ones
hope this helps

[SteveSxx]

Try http://www.thekennelclub.org.uk/ instead
Sky have "hijacked" the previous suggestion

[lankeela]

The Kennel Club do not run courses for dog trainers. The usual route is to join a dog training club, become proficient at training your own dog(s), attend seminars and dog training courses run by dog clubs and then start taking classes within your own club. After many years of hard work you will be able to maybe start you own club or offer one to one training.

If you mean the sort of training that is shown on 'reality' TV shows, dog 'behaviourists' are just dog trainers with the
nouse to make more money out of it by charging a fortune to tell people to shake a coke tin full of pebbles at their dogs. Barbara Woodhouse was only doing what most of us have been doing for years, but because she was eccentric, the TV people managed to make a 'star' out of her.

You can even take dog behaviour courses on line! How on earth anyone can call themselves a dog trainer without having even touched a dog amazes (and frightens) me.

[ganesh]

Have you thought about Guide Dog training as a career?. I wish I'd done that. Check out their web site.

[Annlinda]

www.bipdt.net
the institute of professional dog trainers they run courses etc

[Snappy]

Try this http://www.apdt.co.uk/
Can i just say a course with no hands on experience would be a waste of time. You cant train thin air! All dogs are different :-)

[lankeela]

Not really sure whether johnbjohn wants to be a dog trainer such as those on TV or like police dog handlers, or whether he means training at a dog club - this actually involves training people rather than dogs.

If he wants to train dogs, then either Guide Dogs as suggested, or Hearing Dogs for the Deaf, or Assistance Dogs for the Disabled. Also many rescue societies such as Dogs Trust have dog trainers to rehabilitate the rescue dogs.