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 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.
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)
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