If you want to spend your days helping animals, this course is built for it. You learn animal behaviour, welfare rules, safe handling, first aid and rehabilitation care. Study online, at your own pace, with lifetime access.
You already care about animals. This course gives you the skills that animal work runs on: reading behaviour, spotting signs of ill health, safe handling and basic first aid. It starts from the foundations, so it can be your first step.
Working in a refuge, kennel, pet shop or vet facility? Study the welfare rules, handling requirements and rehabilitation care at your own pace, and take on more of the day with confidence.
Video lessons on demand, no classroom, no deadlines. Retake assessments as many times as you need, with marking back within one business day. Your access lasts for life, so you can come back any time.
Skills like these get used anywhere animals are cared for: refuges and welfare groups, vet facilities, kennels and catteries, pet shops, wildlife parks and farms. The work is easy to picture: settling a frightened new arrival, spotting an animal that is off colour, keeping them safe and comfortable.
Caring for rescued animals day to day. Welfare needs, behaviour and safe handling are the skills this course builds.
Assisting in veterinary facilities, where recognising signs of ill health and handling animals calmly matter all day.
Animal accommodation runs on comfort, routine care and reading behaviour, all covered here.
Pet shops and suppliers of veterinary products and pet foods, where knowing animal care helps you help customers.
Welfare for wild animals, free and captive, plus farm animals, sits in the course topics.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience. Veterinary nursing and similar clinical roles require accredited study.
Ten topics, plus the video mentor series with Dr Kate Adams.
Here is what stands out in this course.
The course includes the Celebrity Mentor Series, a video masterclass hosted by Dr Kate Adams, head vet and owner of Bondi Vet. You sit in on a personal tutorial with one of Australia's best known vets.
Pets, working animals and animals in sport. Farm animals. Wild animals, free and captive. Young animals too. The course covers welfare across all of them, not just cats and dogs.
You learn to rescue animals and apply basic first aid, plus preventative health care, routine treatments and rehabilitation care. The hands-on side of welfare work.
Your access never runs out. Finish at your own pace, then come back and refresh once you are working with animals.
Course Completion Acknowledgement · Online Courses Australia
Finish the course and you receive the college's Course Completion Acknowledgement, plus a short-form credential for Animal Welfare.
The course is fully CPD endorsed. Your points appear on your completion acknowledgement as proof you keep learning.
A digital badge issued by Credly, ready to share wherever you want to show it.
Send an enquiry and a course advisor gets back to you with the course guide, current pricing and straight answers on whether it fits.
Start anytime with instant access. Choose the interest-free weekly plan with no credit check, pay in four with Afterpay, or pay upfront in one payment.
Work through the video lessons and the mentor series with your mentor and tutors behind you. Marking comes back within one business day, and you can retake assessments.
Complete the course and receive your Course Completion Acknowledgement, CPD points and a Credly digital badge.
No. The course is written for animal lovers starting out, and it begins with the foundations: welfare needs, animal behaviour and safe handling.
Recognise common health problems and signs of ill health, read animal behaviour, handle animals safely, apply basic first aid, and help with preventative care, routine treatments and rehabilitation.
Around 100 study hours, at your own pace. Access is lifetime, so there is no deadline. You can come back to the material after you finish.
The weekly plan is $15 a week, interest-free with no credit check. Enquire for the full payment options, including pay-in-four with Afterpay and upfront.
Short-answer and multiple-choice, built to help you understand rather than test you against the clock. You can retake them as many times as you need, and marking comes back within one business day.
Dr Kate Adams, head vet and owner of Bondi Vet, as seen on the TV series. It is a video masterclass included with the course.
It is CPD endorsed, which is accreditation for professional development: you finish with CPD points employers recognise, plus a Credly digital badge. It is not a nationally recognised qualification. That is a different thing, and you do not need one to start in animal care and welfare work.
Yes. There is a 7-day cooling-off period. You can switch to another course or get your money back.
This course is delivered by Online Courses Australia, an online training provider. Its courses are designed with institutions, employers and industry experts.
The college is CPD endorsed and issues Credly digital badges with its completion acknowledgements. Lessons run as step-by-step video modules, not dense textbooks. Support runs through one-on-one mentoring, tutor help by phone and email on weekdays, and live chat seven days a week.
Picture the morning a scared rescue animal settles because of what you know how to do, and the work is yours.