Peaceable Paws Level 1 Intern Academy: Premier Dog Trainer Instruction

Sara work­ing with her shel­ter dog, Shasta

Do you want to.….….…..

Make a career out of train­ing dogs?

Become an expert trainer for your own sake?

Improve your work with shel­ter dogs?

Pre­pare for your CPDT exam?

Then come to the stun­ning Blue Ridge Moun­tains for this inten­sive 6-day acad­emy on dog train­ing and behav­ior taught by Pat Miller and Lisa Wag­goner. What­ever your back­ground, this course will give you the foun­da­tion required for pro­fes­sional dog training—and is the first step toward Pat Miller Certification.

You’ll be hon­ing your skills work­ing with a shel­ter dog who will ben­e­fit greatly from your time together. Graduates come away with a thor­ough under­stand­ing of how dogs think and learn, improved train­ing skills, new pro­fes­sional rela­tion­ships, and insight into the work and busi­ness of being a dog trainer.

Overview

Next dates: April 2, 2012 & Sep­tem­ber 10–16, 2012

Where:  Cold Nose College

Who for:  Dog train­ers at all lev­els, shel­ter work­ers, and dog train­ing hobbyists.

Dura­tion: 6 days

Class size:  8 students

Cost:  $1,200

Pro­gram Objectives

• Lay a solid the­o­ret­i­cal and prac­ti­cal foun­da­tion in the sci­en­tific prin­ci­ples of behav­ior and learn­ing and their appli­ca­tion to the real world of dog training
• Explore the dog train­ing pro­fes­sion from the per­spec­tive of busi­ness prac­tice and ethics
• Pro­vide an oppor­tu­nity for dog train­ers to share, com­pare, ana­lyze and hone their pos­i­tive train­ing and behav­ior tools and methods
• Grad­u­ates of the pro­gram should be well equipped to return home and apply their knowl­edge effec­tively in an exist­ing train­ing busi­ness or dur­ing appren­tice­ships and other ongo­ing learn­ing experiences.

Instruc­tors

Pat Miller, CPDT-KA, CDBC, is the owner of Peace­able Paws, Direc­tor of the Peace­able Paws Acad­e­mies, and an inter­na­tion­ally acclaimed trainer and sem­i­nar speaker. She is the train­ing edi­tor for the Whole Dog Jour­nal and the award-winning author of five books on dog train­ing and behavior.

Lisa Wag­goner, CPDT-KA, PMCT-2, is the founder of Cold Nose Col­lege and a trainer and behav­ior con­sul­tant to clients through­out the south­east. She’s a reg­u­lar dog train­ing colum­nist for the Chero­kee Scout News­pa­per, a DVD Reviewer for The APDT Chron­i­cle of the Dog, a con­trib­u­tor to the Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Coun­cil for Pro­fes­sional Dog Trainer’s newslet­ter, and a dog*tec Cer­ti­fied Dog Walker.

What You Get

√ Cer­tifi­cate of completion

√ Great train­ing for CPDT exam

√ 22 CPDT CEUs

√ Eli­gi­bil­ity for Level 2 & 3 academies

√ Access to online net­work of 200 grads

√ Light break­fast and snacks every day

For fur­ther info, email lisa@coldnosecollege.com or call us at 828–644-9148

Lisa and her shel­ter dog, Ranger, show off some lovely loose leash walking.