Special Offers

Animal Behavior College is pleased to extend some great offers to you! These are available to anyone; you don’t have to be enrolled in our school to take advantage of these opportunities!

Discounted Rates on Pet Insurance
Advances in veterinary medicine can improve your pet’s quality of life. With coverage from Veterinary Pet Insurance (VPI), you can afford to spend even more healthy years with your pet! Animal Behavior College has partnered with VPI to offer dog trainers and pet owners alike a 5% discount on their premium each year for the lifetime of the pet. To take advantage of this opportunity, please click here.

Continuing Education Courses
Animal Behavior College is proud to provide supplementary Continuing Education Programs (CEPs) to dog training professionals or those who are interested in learning more about working with animals. Each CEP is jam-packed with remarkably valuable, up-to-date and relevant information that enhances one’s knowledge in the field of dog training. We are currently offering two CEP’s with others to come in the future!

Training Shelter Dogs
It is a sad fact that many dogs temporarily reside in shelters and rescues due to owner relinquishment. This devastating situation calls for immediate attention, and for that reason, ABC has created a greatly informative Continuing Education Program (CEP) that will assist animal lovers in helping homeless dogs to become more adoptable. This CEP consists of 250+ pages of material authored by Teoti Anderson, former president of the APDT, with contributions from Kelly Gorman-Dunbar and numerous members of the ABC staff. The wealth of information provided discuss everything from understanding the different kinds of shelters, how to approach them, identifying dogs for adoption and defensive handling, to temperament assessments, including some excellent information from the ASPCA MYM Safer Program. Furthermore, the Training Shelter Dogs CEP has been approved by the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers (CCPDT) for 8 CEU credits!

Every hour spent with a shelter dog makes a world of difference, and upon completion of the Training Shelter Dogs CEP, you will have the knowledge, skills, and drive to positively transform the lives of shelter dogs everywhere.

The Art of Selling and Teaching Private Lessons
Understanding how to expertly perform private dog training sessions is a crucial component of every professional dog trainer’s career. There are several reasons why learning how to offer quality private lessons is greatly beneficial to one’s training repertoire. This comprehensive Continuing Education Program (CEP), titled “The Art of Selling and Teaching Private Lessons,” is comprised of approximately 300 pages of highly-detailed, invaluable, critical information that every trainer should familiarize themselves with in regards to conducting private lessons. Authored by Teoti Anderson, former president of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT), this CEP will ameliorate your knowledge of proper private-lesson training and will instruct you on such imperative topics as sales techniques and tips, understanding communication styles, the different types of private training, developing effective training plans, how to teach off-leash behaviors, and how to achieve client compliance in order to maximize the successfulness of your training. Your knowledge of how to obtain clientele and conduct efficient private lessons will assist you in growing your business and maximizing its potential as you will have the ability to offer a plethora of training services to your clients aside from group classes.

Pet Sitting and Dog Walking
The animal industry is continually growing with new ways of caring for our pets. Two of the fastest growing animal services are pet sitting and dog walking. Using our decades of experience in the pet industry, ABC has created a Pet Sitting and Dog Walking Continuing Education Program (CEP) to help you offer this invaluable service to pet owners in your area. This CEP contains 400 pages of detailed material written by Wendy Bedwell-Wilson, author and former editor for Pet Product News International. Topics range from identifying and understanding body language, canine, feline and avian behavior, basic nutrition and hygiene, creating mental and physical stimulation, building relationships with your clients’ pets, personal and home owner safety, creating and maintaining schedules, walking a dog calmly on-leash, building clientele, and much more!
Upon completion of this course, you will have a new and highly sought after service to provide to your existing and future clients. With the knowledge of the ins and outs of creating a Business Plan and Budget, how to properly build client relationships, as well as the expertise of caring for a variety of pets, you will have a highly sought after service to provide to your clients and their pets with fur, feathers and scales.

Cat Management and Training
Cat Management and Training is a comprehensive continuing education course that is offered online only.  Since cats outnumber dogs in the United States, learning how to manage and treat cat behaviors can be a profitable venture for the pet professional. In this course, you will learn the proper socialization techniques for developing healthy feline-to-human relationships, as well as, feline-to-feline and feline-to-canine interactions.  You will also be taught how to read and interpret feline body language and vocalizations, how to teach basic behavior training (i.e. sit, stay, come), and how to address problem behaviors (i.e. scratching, spraying, howling, etc.). This course also covers teaching “fun” behaviors, such as roll over, tightrope walk and jumping through a hoop. The completion of this course will give you invaluable knowledge necessary to help pet owners and make you a true asset in your chosen animal career.

Pet Nutrition and Diet
The Pet Nutrition and Diet Continuing Education Program (CEP) discusses basic nutrition, the regulations governing commercial pet foods, and the nutritional needs for both cats and dogs.  In this course, you will learn how to read pet food labels including the importance of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and protective nutrients. You will also learn about the different types of diets (i.e. dry food, canned food, raw food, supplements, etc.) and how food can play a huge role in a pet's behavior. After the completion of this course, you will have the knowledge to educate your clients on how to provide their animals with the best nutrition based on their pet's individual age, weight, and health condition.

 

Trade Shows
We are always excited to meet with our students, graduates, Mentor Trainers and animal lovers alike! Below is a list of the upcoming trade shows ABC will be attending. If you are in the area, please stop by and say hello. We look forward to seeing you!

January No Events Currently Scheduled February Groom and Kennel Expo Pasadena, CA February 2-5, 2012   Super Pet Expo Edison, NJ February 10-12, 2012 Western Veterinary Conference Las Vegas, NV February 19-23, 2012 March No Events Currently Scheduled April America’s Family Pet Expo Costa Mesa, CA April 20-22, 2012 May No Events Currently Scheduled June No Events Currently Scheduled July No Events Currently Scheduled August No Events Currently Scheduled September Super Zoo Las Vegas, NV September 11-13, 2012 October Miramar Air Show Miramar, CA October 12-14, 2012 APDT Conference Northern Kentucky/Cincinnati October 17-21, 2012 November No Events Currently Scheduled December No Events Currently Scheduled