This four day professional program for dog walkers covers everything from aggression, body language, pack management, fight protocols, and safety issues to client and dog screening, liability protection, and successful business practices. The program includes lecture, discussion, video analysis, hands-on work, and fieldtrips with a pack. All participants receive dog first aid certification as part of the curriculum. Dog Walking Certification exams are optional. This course is appropriate for both new and established dog walkers, as well as daycare employees and owners, and dog trainers wishing to add walking to their services. Class size limited.
Veronica Boutelle, founder and owner of dogTEC and previously Director of Behavior & Training for the SF/SPCA, and Kim Moeller, a long-time dog walker and the SF/SPCA's trainer specializing in dog-dog aggression, team together to offer a professional forum for a growing profession.
The Dog Walking Academy is held in the East Bay (CA) at Metro Dog. For directions, visit our Contact Us page and scroll down for directions.
The very next day and weeks after the Dog Walking Institute I marveled at how useful and helpful all the topics covered have been to me. The experience has shifted my perspectives, increased the level of my competency, and profoundly enriched the quality and enjoyment of my day-to-day dog walking experience. Again, thank you! Michelle Lenihan, Animal Kharma
Section 1 Full
February 28- March 2, Th & F 5pm-9:30pm AND Sat & Sun 9am-5:30pm
Cost: 550.00
Member Cost: 550.00
Early Registration Cost: 550.00
Section Full
Section 3 Full
June 5-8, Th & F 5pm-9:30pm AND Sat & Sun 9am-5:30pm
Cost: 550.00
Member Cost: 550.00
Early Registration Cost: 550.00
Section Full
Section 5
September 4-7, Th & F 5pm-9:30pm AND Sat & Sun 9am-5:30pm
Cost: 550.00
Member Cost: 550.00
Early Registration Cost: 550.00
Section 6
November 13-16, Th & F 5pm-9:30pm AND Sat & Sun 9am-5:30pm
If you're unable to join us in California for the 4 day in-person program, you can now take the same great Dog Walking Academy course from your home or anywhere. This 10 week telecourse covers all the same topics:
Everything from aggression, body language, pack management, fight protocols, and safety and 1st aid issues to client and dog screening, liability protection, and successful business practices. The program includes 90 minute phone classes once per week with video lectures, analysis, and activities in between sessions. Optional certification measures include a written problem solving exam and self-taken video for instructor analysis. This course is appropriate for both new and established dog walkers, as well as daycare employees and owners, and dog trainers wishing to add walking to their services. Class size limited.
Veronica Boutelle, founder and owner of dogTEC and previously Director of Behavior & Training for the SF/SPCA, and Kim Moeller, a long-time dog walker and the SF/SPCA's trainer specializing in dog-dog aggression, team together to offer a professional forum for a growing profession.
Join us for two information-packed days on the business end of working with dogs. Create your dream business working with dogs or push your existing business forward—be it training, walking, sitting, daycare, or any other dog-related service. You’ll receive practical advice and ideas on: -- marketing your services inexpensively and without stress -- legalizing your business and protecting yourself -- getting paid what you’re worth -- packaging your services to maximize effectiveness and your bottom line -- avoiding burnout -- getting organized -- enjoying your business
How To Run A Dog Business will be held in Carmel, Indiana at Fetch Academy. Price is $200.
Instructors: Robin Bennett, Veronica Boutelle, Susan Briggs, Crista Meyer, Colleen Pelar
This two day seminar is packed with information on the ins and outs of running a successful Doggie Daycare, bringing the experts together all under one roof at the only seminar that focuses exclusively on dog daycares. Get answers to all your dog daycare questions, from behavior to business management, and everything in between.
The MegaDog Daycare Conference is hosted by All About Dog Daycare. Cost is $249
To learn more or register, visit www.allaboutdogdaycare.com/id36.html
You can have truly effective and exciting training classes—classes that bring clients back again and again and create unstoppable word of mouth. Classes that prepare people and dogs for real life—no more hearing “He only listens in class.” No more starting with 10 students and finishing with 6. You will design a class of your choice while learning the theories and strategies behind powerful curriculum development so that you can repeat your success again and again. We will also create a “tool box” of tips and strategies for smooth classroom management and effective instruction.
Teaching group classes can be daunting - how do you choose what material to teach, when to teach it, and what methods to use? How do you approach students who are in the same class but are at different skill levels? Or keep the attention of ten dogs and even more owners? Why don't all the students follow your directions? To teach well you need a good curriculum. And a good curriculum is more than a list of behaviors to teach and games to play. In this six-day workshop we guide you step by step through the backwards planning necessary to produce a complete, cohesive, solid curriculum for the class of your choice - and you'll have fun doing it too. No more staring at blank pages in search of inspiration, no more glueing together bits and pieces from other trainers' classes and trying to make it work.
Veronica Boutelle taught curriculum development, classroom management, and learning theory to graduate students and classroom teachers before becoming a dog trainer. In this workshop, she applies her extensive teaching background to Public Class training.
$850, visit www.sfspca.org/seminars.shtml for additional details and registration
“Our job is to teach people to train their dogs.” How many times have you heard that? Said it yourself? It sounds so good, so logical. After all, it’s the owners that live with the dogs, and they need to know what to do when we leave. But does this really make sense? Can we really teach owners to train their dogs and solve behavior problems in a few short sessions?
These questions lie at the heart of the many frustrations and limitations of our work—the unfinished cases, client compliance issues, poor income, and tinges of doubt that all contribute to feelings of burn out and lack of efficacy.
Join Veronica Boutelle of dogTEC to explore these questions, look at the history that’s led to our current approaches, and to consider win-win-win alternatives for trainers, dog owners, and the dogs themselves.
Who's the Trainer will be held at Pawsitive Tails at 1255 22nd St. in San Francisco. www.sfpawsitivetails.com
Section 1
June 15th, 10am-3:30pm at Pawsitive Tails in San Francisco
Instructors: Multiple speakers, including Gina Phairas of dogTEC
The Clean Run Instructor Conference is designed to bring instructor education to new levels by providing diverse programming and networking opportunities for agility instructors at all levels and environment. Topics include:
-- ways to build your agility business -- help balancing your curriculum for competitive vs. recreational students -- creative solutions for dealing with aggressive or problem dogs -- techniques for teaching difficult human students -- training plans for different levels of classes -- latest techniques in skill training, handling, and obstacle training
The Clean Run Instructor Conference is hosted by Clean Run and Dogs of Course.
To learn more and to register, visit www.dogsofcourse.com/agilityconf/cricdetails.html
Day One: AdoptionWorks It takes a community to save the lives of homeless animals. Learn how rescue and adoption agencies in your area can work together to improve your community’s save rate. The CommunityWorks program is an interactive workshop designed to involve individuals from various positions in animal welfare, including shelter workers and managers, rescue organizations, trainers, veterinarians, and activists.
Day Two: Private Training That Works -- Know when to teach your clients and when to train the dog—the pros and cons of board and train, day training, and coaching. -- Build an effective training plan—learn which pieces to juggle and how, review key parameters involved in fear, aggression, and anxiety cases, and get better client compliance by building on what your client is already doing. -- Be a good coach—learn how to shape client behavior and how to give effective reinforcement.
Does your training business attract more work than you can handle? Is your well-paid time smartly structured into a satisfying work and private life? If the answer to either question isn’t a resounding yes!, join us for a seminar that will change that.
-- Set your rates where they ought to be -- Learn to sell private training—phone strategies for selling the initial consult, and face-to-face strategies for selling training sessions -- Use packages to enhance your training success and earnings -- Make your consults comfortable and effective—we’ll walk you through each phase of private training, from phone intake through initial consult into your training sessions -- Learn to set the tone for client compliance -- Make more money in less time through proper scheduling -- Discover an approach to client notes that saves you time and hassle -- Learn how to create behavior modification plans that really work for your clients
Veronica Boutelle, founder and owner of dogTEC, author of How To Run A Dog Business: Putting Your Career Where Your Heart Is, and Gina Phairas, dogTEC business and case coach and former instructor for the SF/SPCA Academy for Dog Trainers, share tips and strategies gathered through years of business consulting exclusively to dog pros.
This is a Positively Trained Event For more information and registration, go to www.positivelytrained.com
Veronica Boutelle and Kim Moeller of dogTEC team up to help you work with private Growly clients. Learn or fine-tune diagnostics and treatment plans for both on- and off-leash aggression, and explore strategies for working with clients on interviewing, mechanical skills, compliance, and normalizing dog behavior. Kim takes you through a series of case studies and video footage to map out treatment protocols. And Veronica shows you how to maximize your business success working with dog-dog aggression.
Kim Moeller is the San Francisco SPCA’s dog-dog socialization and rehabilitation expert. She co-designed, and currently teaches, the SPCA’s famous Growly Dog program. Kim has spoken internationally on the subject of dog-dog aggression and has earned renown within the industry for her content-rich, hands-on, entertaining seminars. Her long-standing private practice focuses on aggression issues. Kim also co-teaches dogTEC’s Dog Walking Academy.
Veronica Boutelle, founder of dogTEC and author of How To Run A Dog Business: Putting Your Career Where Your Heart Is, is the industry’s leading business consultant. She teaches sold-out seminars and consults one-on-one with dog professionals. Veronica writes the column ‘The Business End of the Leash’ for the APDT Chronicle of the Dog, and is a sought-after speaker at conferences and dog training schools across the country. She is the former Director of Behavior & Training for the San Francisco SPCA.
This is a Positively Trained event hosted by Monadnock Canine Academy.
For registration, visit www.positivelytrained.com
Section 1
October 4-5 at Monadnock Canine Academy in New Hampshire
Cost: See description
Member Cost: See description
Class Cancellation Policy
We are a small venue and do not provide refunds, so please plan carefully. Cancellations two weeks prior to an event are credited towards future events. Cancellations within two weeks of an event are not credited. Should an event be cancelled for any reason all registrants will receive full refunds.
Dog Attendance Policy
For the safety of the animals and comfort of the humans, we ask that you do not bring dogs to events unless the event description specifically requires your dog’s attendance as part of the program. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.
