Vet Clinic Puppy Manners and Socialization
Purpose/Goal: To prepare students to begin training; and educate their clients how to have their puppies grow to be good community members.
Instructor Certification available through the IACC.
Pre-requisites: Vet Tech; or have a desire to help the public with their puppies at a veterinary clinic; some common knowledge about dog safety, health, and nutrition
Course Info: This train the trainer course will teach you step by step instruction to help you hold classes within a veterinary clinic near you. It focuses on training Vet Techs (or others) to assist vet clinic clients in early puppy education, dealing with safety, health and nutrition, puppy manner imprinting, socialization, and general puppy care. Learn to become a Veterinary Clinic Puppy Imprinting and Socialization trainer!
Course Length: 8 one-hour sessions
Course Cost (Register above):
For Credit: Live and OnDemand=$300.00
Audited:
Live and OnDemand=$210.00
Live—You will speak to the instructor in an online “classroom” with other students. Choose from the listed times in the Course Registration box above.
OnDemand/Recorded—Watch classes "OnDemand"- at your own pace. Click on "OnDemand/Recorded Session" under "Register for Recorded Class" above.
Certification/For Credit-You will participate fully in the class with required homework and tests. You will send in homework (may include video) to learn "hands on" with the instructor examining and providing individualized feedback, attention and assistance on course material.
Audited-You will participate fully in the class with no required homework or tests.
The instructor will not provide any assistance out of class such as viewing your videos in order to be able to give you individualized feedback.
You will learn to hold a class and teach clients at veterinary clinics the following skills or knowledge:
- Socialization with other dogs and people
- Basic understanding of early puppy behavior
- Consistancy
- Body Language
- Why a puppy bites and how to stop it
- Why a puppy jumps and how to control it
- Imprinting of early manners
- Watch me
- Sit; Come and Down
- Walk with me
- Stand
- Wait
- Basic tricks to keep the puppies happy
- Shake, catch, roll over, over/under, crawl, go through a tunnel
Instructional information on:
- Housetraining
- Crate Training
- House proofing for a new puppy
- Understanding Leadership roles
- Safety tips for House, Holidays, Traveling
Vet Visits talks:
- Handling
- Nail triming
- Grooming
- Ear cleaning
- Dental care
- Administering medications
- Weigh-In
- Keeping track of the puppy’s growth
Instructor: Jan Bradfeldt, has been associated with dog training since 1971 and has instructed for Emerald [1].jpeg)
Dog Obed. Club (EDOC) since 1972. Her college studies are in behavior modification, psychology and animal science. Jan graduated from Oregon State Univ. in 1976. She is currently teaching puppy imprinting classes for 3 local veterinarians and also a public Canine Good Citizen Prep Class. Jan also teaches a weekly Show Conformation class for EDOC. Jan has done training with the Delta Society for therapy dogs and is currently a Canine Good Citizen evaluator for the AKC. Her first German Shorthaired Pointer was given to her 48 years ago. Jan and her husband still train and compete in many dog activities including, Obedience, Rally, Agility, Show Conformation, AKC hunt tests, CGC and Animal Assisted Therapy work. Jan spent 20 years in the corporate world as a Hazardous Materials Regulatory Shipping Specialist before leaving it to work with dogs and their owners full time.
Jan currently has several top winning German Shorthaired Pointers as well as an English Cocker Spaniel.
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