Featured Course: Dog Psychology and Training

Is your dog barking excessively, digging or is he aggressive or have phobias? This course will help you get into your dog’s mind to understand why he is behaving the way he is.

This course aims to teach students:

* How to train your dog
* How canine animals think and discuss the relevance of understanding canine psychology to people.
* How canine animals communicate and formulate an understanding of possible ways that a human may communicate with a dog.
* Behaviours that are natural and predictable in canines and learn to recognise and understand signals that dogs give.
* Commonly occurring behavioural problems in dogs.
* How to train a new pet dog when it is brought into a household.
* How to train a dog to perform predetermined actions upon command.
* 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.

Featured Ebook: Caring for Dogs
The friendship between humans and dogs is one of the oldest in history. From archeological findings, it is known that the first dog (Canis familiaris) domesticated by humans was in fact a wolf (Canis lupus). Dogs did not become domesticated through force, there was a friendship and mutual benefit of the relationship which enabled both to eat and therefore survive.

This book covers all of the aspects of caring for the needs of dogs, both physically and psychologically.
CHAPTER 1: DOGS AND HUMANS
CHAPTER 2: BIOLOGY OF DOGS
CHAPTER 3: BASIC HEALTH
CHAPTER 4: PYSCHOLOGY
CHAPTER 5: GROOMING
CHAPTER 6: WORKING IN THE CANINE INDUSTRY

Download a free sample or order a copy of this book at our bookshop.

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