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The Dog Walking Academy

Where: Multiple Locations
Duration: 4 days: Th & F evening, all day Sat & Sun
Size: Limited to 16 students
Cost: $650

An intensive 4-day workshop leading to professional dog walking certification. Graduates come away fully equipped to start a dog walking business—or advance an existing one. Expand your knowledge of canine behavior, learn new pack-management techniques and fight protocols, and go through the A-Z of running and marketing a dog walking business.

What You Get
  • Professional dog walking certification
  • First Aid certification
  • Certification seals for marketing
  • 24 CPDT CEUs
  • Continental breakfast (weekend), afternoon power snacks

What You Will Learn
Pack management | dog communication & body language | aggression in all its forms: what it means, how to prevent it, and what to do about it | safety and fight protocols | basic training: build reliable sits, recalls, and polite leash behavior | client and dog screening | public relations | small business practices | liability protection | marketing | increasing profits | legalizing your business

The course is taught through lecture, video analysis, demos, hands-on exercises, and fieldtrips.

The Teachers
West Coast
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Veronica Boutelle
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Kim Moeller
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Andrea Stone
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Linda McVay
East Coast
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Denise Mazzola
South
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Lisa Waggoner
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Brad Waggoner
2012 Dates
San Francisco, CA 4/19-22
  4/26-29
  6/7-10
  10/25-28
  11/1-4
   
Murphy, NC 4/19-22
  10/18-21
   
Seattle, WA 2/23-26
  5/24-27
  10/4-7
   
Hudson, NY 3/23-25
   
Swanzey, NH 6/14-17
   
Arlington, VA 11/10-13

See Dog Walking Academy photos on Flickr

Is it for you? Read Dog Walking For A Living (article)

  • What a terrific way for people to learn to start a dog walking business or, like me, improve the one they already have. I’m proud to be a certified dog walker!”
    –Mandy Thompson
  • The most comprehensive, to-the-point, hands-on, and fun training class I’ve ever taken.”
    –Valerie Schillaci-Levy
  • I went through the DWA in 2005 and have since put 8 of my dog walkers through it. I think in large part our great safety record is a result of Veronica’s excellent guidance.”
    –Molly Kenefick

Want to save money on a full package of products and/or consulting? Check out our discounted Business Success Packages.