Doggy Doctor Academy
The Doggy Doctor Professional Academy is for people who want to become dog trainers or dog behaviourists, as well as for dedicated, interested owners who want to understand their pets more.
I’ve been training dogs for over thi….a very long time. I’ve set up this Professional Academy to help you build your knowledge and skill-set and develop a ‘can-do’ mindset so you’ll be confident of success in your new business. Or simply understand your own dog more.
There are two membership options, Prime and Pro.
Both Prime and Pro members get access to live monthly Coaching Confab calls and the Doggy Doctor Discussion Group. All Professional Academy members also get access to our range of online courses for clients, including our signature Perfect Pet course, our Socialisation course, Socialisation at a Distance, and our loose lead walking course, Simply Stop Pulling. More will be added over time.
Prime Membership
Prime membership includes a monthly Coaching Confab Call & the Doggy Doctor Discussion Group, live Zoom group calls to develop your knowledge and experience dealing with dogs. We’ll discuss any behaviour or training problem questions or cases you might have, we’ll look at interesting case studies and you get the chance to ask any questions you want about your journey to becoming a dog trainer. Call recordings are available if you can’t make the live sessions.
Prime membership also includes these self-study courses:
- What to teach and how to teach it: This course covers how to teach the eight essential things all dogs should know as well as suggestions for other topics that are useful to teach, to help you set up your own successful business.
- Business Basics: This course complements the Business Basics workbook. It takes you through the steps you’ll need to take to set up as a dog trainer. From making a plan to working out finances, getting yourself known to protecting yourself legally, it gives you what you need to know in order to set up and run a successful business.
- How to Train Dogs: This 4 Module course covers the foundations of training: what owners need to know, how to teach a cue, the three stages of learning and the four key rules. It explains the eight ways to train any behaviour, and teaches you how to set your clients up for success.
- Dog Trainer Building Blocks: This self-study course gives you a taster of the key things you need to know to become a great dog trainer: how to assess a dog’s TEMP, the importance of recognising arousal and stress, dealing with your own fear and an introduction to how dogs learn and what you need to be able to teach.
Access to all our Down Dog Online Training Courses.
A Quarterly Confidence Call with The Doggy Doctor
Pro Membership
Pro membership gives you access to the core knowledge courses as well as everything included in Prime membership. Pro members also receive an additional live coaching Pro Q&A/Hotseat session every month, as well as an individual Monthly Turbo Call. All Eight Academy Courses (plus any future ones). The Core courses are:
- Canine Communication: This course gives you a good basic knowledge about how dogs communicate and explains how to put that knowledge into practical use so you can become effective trainers. It provides detailed and comprehensive insights into what dogs are saying to us – all the time – and why being able to “speak dog” will give you the confidence to manage and train dogs in a way they’ll fully understand.
- Behaviour Basics: This course provides detailed insights into why dogs do what they do and why prevention is far, far better than cure. You’ll delve into the mysteries of how dogs (and humans) learn, how to assess behaviour and how to devise a plan to help with unwanted behaviours. It includes in-depth case studies of dogs who needed dog behaviourist help.
- Handling Humans: Being able to help and teach people effectively is a key part of being a dog trainer. You’ll also learn how to handle yourself, including your reactions to others and to doing something new. Two thirds of budding dog trainers say they don’t have confidence in themselves – imposter syndrome is alive and kicking.
- How Dogs Learn: In this 4-module course you’ll learn the key elements of effective learning, how you know when a dog has learnt something, why positive training works (and punishment doesn’t), why good training is like gambling, and how to solve any training problem you’ll meet.
PRIME: £49 per month
PRO: £159 per month
Behaviour Basics
This course is designed to give interested dog owners, and people who are working, or want to work, in the pet industry a good basic knowledge about dog behaviour and help you put that knowledge into practice
Handling Humans
Being able to help and teach people effectively is a key part of being a dog trainer. You’ll learn key communication and negotiation skills and you’ll learn how to handle yourself, how to control frustration and how to react to criticism. It will also teach you to have confidence in yourself and help you deal with imposter syndrome.
Dog Trainer Building Blocks
Introductory 4 week course covering the basic building blocks you need to start your dog training business. This course will cover the basics of how dogs communicate and how to “read” what they tell you, what basics all dog owners should know and how to teach them, how to recognise and deal with behaviours such as arousal, the key people skills you’ll need and how to start setting up your business.
Academy Confab Calls
For our Academy Members only: Current and all future Confab Calls will be located here for you to look back at.
Business Basics
This course complements the Business Basics workbook. It takes you through the steps you’ll need to take to set up as a dog trainer. From making a plan to working out finances, getting yourself known to protecting yourself legally, it gives you what you need to know in order to set up and run a successful business.
How To Train Dogs
This course covers how to go about teaching dogs and their owners from a trainers point of view.
How Dogs Learn
This is a 4-part course in which you will find out:
What learning actually is.
Why positive training works.
… And why punishment doesn’t!
Why Good training is like gambling.
What To Teach & How To Teach It
4 Module course covering eight core things to teach puppies, eight key things all dogs should know, three core elements all owners need to understand, the two vital elements of teaching anything and how to develop super-rewards.
Analysing Research
Research can be an important topic for you and your clients. What to look at and how to analyse it can be just as important.
PRO Sessions
Doggy Doctor Discusses
These discussions by Carol are for those wanting to know more about specific subjects without going into too much detail. They’re friendly chats to discover more about things people want to know more about.
Canine Communication
This course is designed to give interested dog owners, dog walkers, dog groomers and dog trainers a good basic knowledge about why dogs to the things they do.
It’ll bust quite a few of the common myths that abound. My aim is to give you some light-bulb moments and help you understand our four-legged best friends better.