Course Title:
Vet Clinic Puppy Manners and Socialization Certification
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 Cost and Length:
Live: $400, 9 sessions
Recorded: $350
Purpose/Goal: To prepare and certify vet techs (or others) to hold classes in veterinary clinics to socialize; begin training; and educate their clients how to have their puppies grow to be good community members.
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 Certified Veterinary Clinic Puppy Imprinting and Socialization trainer!
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
Course Dates and Times:(TO REGISTER FOR THIS CLASS: Choose from the following course offerings. This will send you to our Session Information and registration page. When you get there, click on the "Registration" link at the top or bottom of that page and follow the easy registration procedure.)
Theses classes will fill fast. If you are unable to join or can not meet at these times, please complete Form to be put on Wait list for next course or check out the Self-Paced Course (Recorded) offerings.
Instructor: Jan Bradfeldt, has been associated with dog training since 1971 and has instructed for Emerald
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.
Student Information
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