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Our Training Principles
We train using classical and operant conditioning. Utilizing the positive methods of these behavior sciences, we can assist you in learning to open communication with animals, and how to affect changes in behavior.
Our boarding kennels house many potential service dogs which serve as your training subjects.
Besides a great deal of course work, you will spend many hours hands on working in basic obedience, and learning to read the animals you are working with. Positive problem solving is stressed.
Pre-Apprentice ProgramIf you aren't sure animal training is for you, try our 40 hour Pre-Apprentice Program.
Goal:
Find out if you really have what it takes to become a professional dog trainer
or training assistant before you tie up a great deal of money and your
time. You will be able to determine if you have the aptitude,
interest in and commitment to become a professional. At the end of this
dog trainer course, you should be able to decide if pursuing a dog training career is really
your goal.
Prerequisite:
None
Cost:
$350 Plus purchase or rental of assigned reading
Apprenticeship
Level 1 – 145 hours
Goal:
Apprentice Level 1 will help you learn the basic skills and protocols you will need to become a competent dog training assistant.
Successful completion will prepare you for a position as an unpaid or paid training assistant, depending on your prior education and eperience.
Prerequisite:
None
Cost:
$900 Plus purchase or rental of assigned reading materials.
Apprentice
Level 2 – 145 hours
Successful completion of this course, will prepare you for a position as a
paid trainer working under supervision or as a head trainer, depending on your prior background and experience coming into the course.
Prerequisite:
Completion of Kat's K9 Cadets Apprenticeship Level 1. Equivalency
requirement can be met through a combination of: demonstrated skill
handling/training dogs using primarily positive reinforcement methods;
submission of documented minimum of two years professional or five years
personal/structured dog training experience, and passing of a written
equivalency test.
Cost: $900
Plus purchase or rental of assigned reading
Apprentice
Level 3 – 185 hours
Goal:
To help the trainer grow and gain confidence in training behavior knowledge and skills, and prepare for a career as a professional dog trainer.
Successful completion of this course, the student should be prepared for a position as a paid trainer under supervision, or as a head trainer, depending on student’s prior background and experience coming into the course, and the degree to which s/he assimilated and can apply the course information.
Prerequisite:
Completion of Kat's K9 Cadets Apprenticeship Level 2 or at least one level
of Kat's K9 Cadets Intern Program or equivalent thereof. Equivalency requirement
can be met through a combination of: demonstrated skill handling/training dogs
using primarily positive reinforcement methods; submission of documented minimum
of three years professional or six years personal/structured dog training
experience, and passing of a written equivalency test.
Cost:
$1000 Plus purchase or rental of assigned reading materials.
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