Pet Care Courses

 LEARN TO UNDERSTAND WHAT YOUR ANIMAL IS THINKING

 This course is relevant to pet owners, veterinary assistants, or people who work with animals on farms, zoos, pet shops and trainers. In understanding animal behaviour, we extend our basis for understanding human behaviour, and as such, the course may also be valuable for anyone studying general psychology.  Lessons cover influences and motivation, animal perception and behaviour, environmental affects on behaviour, instinct and learning, socialisation, handling animals and problem behaviour. 

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There are business opportunities in the pet care industry now!

Pet ownership is increasing every year - recent studies show that ownership has grown from just over half of the population owning pets to now almost two thirds of homes having pet friends to care for.  So with our busy lifestyles, pet parents need help to care for their fur babies!

Do you love working with animals? Are you planning to start grooming as a new business? Do you work in the pet care industry already and want to expand your skills?

This course is perfect for you as it:

•  introduces grooming techniques with cats, dogs, small animals, large animals
•  covers the use of equipment and tools
•  teaches anatomy, skin and coat health
•  advises how to start a home business as a groomer, follow easy practical business tips
•  expands your confidence to work in the showing industry

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DO YOU WANT TO WORK IN THE ANIMAL HEALTH INDUSTRY?

ACS Student Comment: Yes [I found the course valuable]. I have animals, I am a dog training instructor. I am planning to commence a business providing in-home care to a variety of animals. So I wanted to upgrade my knowledge of animal health. I enjoyed the course and feel I have learned a lot. Beverley Bell, Animal Health Care course.

Learn to care for the health of any type of animal (focus is on mammals and birds) and understand the scope of services offered by animal care services, including in veterinary practices. This course is appropriate for anyone interested in working with animals includin on a farm, a wildlife park or a veterinary practice. It is a sound foundation course and designed to cover most of what is found in a typical veterinary assistants course in many countries around the world.

• As a Passion
• For a job

Suitable foundation course to work in commercial aquariums, zoos, marine conservation, aquaculture, etc. Learn to create and manage feature aquariums in offices, shopping centres or other commercial locations; or develop skills to work in the Pet Industry

Learn to Care for Birds in Captivity - Study Bird Keeping/Aviculture

• Enrol any time, study from anywhere, learn at your own pace
• Build your knowledge and understanding of a wide variety of birds
• A course for anyone with a passion for birds, amateur or professional

Learn about the secret life of cats

Understand cats and then apply that understanding to manage their behaviour

• the nature and scope of cat psychology,
• how cats communicate and their senses,
• natural cat behaviour,
• cat behaviour disorders,
• training and behaviour management. 

This course content relates to both domestic and wild cat populations. It is vital for anyone working for agencies in cat welfare, anyone working in cat heath, anyone operating their own business in cat care or in retail, and more! 

Learn to care for Dogs

• Learn the physical and psychological needs of dogs.
• What to feed your dogs?
• How do you groom your dog?
• What are the different types of dogs?
• What kind of dog would you choose as a pet?

This course is ideal for you if you are a dog enthusiast.

Dogs, dogs and more dogs! People enjoy keeping dogs as pets, but do we reallyunderstand them?

Study canine behaviour to understand and also manage them better

This course can become your starting point for becoming a skilled and effective dog trainer.

An ideal course if you work in care or health industry and want to develop professional canine behaviour insight. Learn from our canine professionals and veterinarians.

LEARN TO OPTIMISE ANIMAL WELLBEING - NATURALLY!

ACS Student comment: I would recommend this course to anybody who is interested in animals, has animals and/or likes to work with animals. This is something I can use for the rest of my life and I can also use this basic knowledge for further study. The course is very pleasant and the tutors are motivating and very fast. So all in all a great learning experience!Gabriele Klinnert, Australia - Natural Health Care for Animals course.

NOW RECOGNISED BY THE COMPLEMENTARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Technology has come a long way in the treatment of disease in both domestic and livestock. The conventional approach used by most veterinary practices has had great success in treating ailments such as acute infection and trauma. One problem that has come from this conventional approach to treatment is the narrowing view of how ailments can be treated and the growing reliance on chemical products for treatment.

This has lead to the re-emergence of holistic therapies for animals. Practitioners who use this holistic approach to the treatment of illness in animals believe that symptoms represent the action of an individual’s “life force”. To protect an animal’s life force, symptoms are created such as diarrhea, vomiting, coughing and sneezing to throw off the disturbance.

This unique course examine topics such as natural nutrition for health, the limitations of natural health care, signs of ill health, maintaining health, treating health problems, domestic animals, livestock and also includes a research project so that you can really get into a relevant topic that interests you.

LEARN HOW TO CARE FOR ANIMALS

ACS Student Comment: Undertaking research reinforces learning, and it makes me learn more than I would on the course notes alone. The tutor’s comments are very useful. He also provides links to interesting materials relative to my course. Lana Hurley, Australia, Pet Care course.

This is a great course for pet owners or anyone working with pets.  This course provides a sound introduction to caring for a wide variety of different pets including dogs, cats, fish, birds, rabbits, rodents, reptiles and amphibians. Examined within the course are aspects of pet care such as ideal diets & food, care of coats, feathers, hair etc, enclosures such as tanks etc, care of litters and young animals and more.  Pet Care is designed as an introductory course for those seeking to work with animals in positions such as vet nurses, animal welfare and animal rescue.

 ACS Student Comment: [The course] has helped me to get into College to study Countryside and Environment Management. I have always been interested in all animals especially poultry and the college tutors were impressed with my knowledge. So I am very pleased I did this course. My mum is now thinking about taking the Goat course, as she breeds Pygmy and Golden Guernsey goats and says she would enjoy learning more about them. Aaron May, UK, Poultry course.

LEARN TO CARE FOR POULTRY - CHICKENS, GEESE, DUCKS

Poultry BAG 208 is for both people wishing to work in the poultry industry and  amateur enthusiasts, the course examines diet, breeding, vaccination, pests and diseases and much more.

This thorough and comprehensive poultry course has 8 lessons: Terminology, Breeds , Nutrition, Diseases In Poultry, Layers, Broilers, Incubation, Brooding, Record Keeping, Economics & Marketing. 

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