Whether you want puppy classes or in-home work, this covers both. You learn canine behaviour and obedience, then how to run the business. No training background is needed, which makes it a sound place to start.
Obedience work only holds when you know why a dog does what it does. Canine psychology comes before the training drills.
Over a hundred videos from Sarah Whitehead, a certified clinical animal behaviourist, sit inside the course.
The third certificate covers setting up, pricing, the books and finding clients. That is the part that turns a skill into an income.
Dog training is mostly small operators: puppy classes at a park, in-home visits, or group sessions on a weekend. The business modules are aimed squarely at that.
Running your own classes and visits from the ground up.
Early socialisation and first obedience with young dogs.
Working with one dog and its owner in their own house.
Planning and running obedience classes for several dogs.
Obedience and behaviour work for owners or a kennel.
Agility and sport work with dogs and their handlers.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. This pathway is not nationally recognised. Running a training business carries its own risk and cost.
Care, then behaviour and obedience, then the business.
This is the longest run on the shelf at around four hundred hours, because it teaches two jobs: training dogs, and running the business that trains them.
Senses, communication, development and behavioural disorders all come before obedience training.
A module on training working dogs sits at the end of the behaviour certificate.
You write a plan, learn the accounting basics and set up Xero, with a marketing module that opens later.
Awarded by the college on completion
Issued once you finish. The college is not a registered training organisation, so it carries no national recognition.
The college holds ICOES and CPD Standards Office accreditation and belongs to the International Approval and Recognition Council.
Shared through a link in the learning platform rather than through SEEK.
Send the form. It takes a minute and asks for nothing up front.
A course advisor walks you through the modules and the weekly cost.
Pick your payment plan, sign up, and open the first module.
Take the dog modules first, then open the business ones.
No. The college states you need no previous dog training or dog care experience, and no equipment or special setup.
Eighteen months of access. The college puts the workload at around 400 hours, the longest of its dog courses.
From $29 a week on a payment plan. You can pay weekly, fortnightly or monthly, or pay the lot upfront. The plan takes no deposit and runs no credit check.
No exams, ever. You work through the modules online and submit tasks as you go.
Sarah Whitehead, a certified clinical animal behaviourist. The college includes over one hundred of her videos.
You finish with a Certificate of Achievement from the college. The college is accredited by ICOES and the CPD Standards Office and belongs to the International Approval and Recognition Council. It is not a registered training organisation, so the training is not nationally recognised. You also get a SEEK Pass credential, shared through a link in the learning platform rather than through SEEK itself.
That one is the behaviour and training content by itself. This adds dog care underneath it and a business start up certificate on top.
There is a ten day money back guarantee from the college. Ask a course advisor to walk you through how it works before you sign up.
The Career Academy is an online college whose animal care tutors include Rachel H and Kris D. It gives a share of course proceeds to RSPCA Victoria for rehabilitation and adoption programs, and works with groups like RSPCA Australia.
Picture a park full of puppies on a Saturday and your name on the class.