By Animal Conduct School
ABC could be very happy with our graduates and loves to listen to tales about your successes. Our college students have moved on to have profitable careers working for different corporations in addition to many turning into their very own boss and beginning their very own enterprise. Nonetheless, the infinite alternatives haven’t stopped there. Through the years, we’ve got had graduates go on to start out radio exhibits and podcasts about canine coaching. Nonetheless, others have had articles revealed in newspapers, magazines, and blogs.
We’ve had grooming graduates go on to win grooming awards and in addition publish grooming articles. A few of our graduates have appeared on TV and a few work with animals for movement photos. As well as, ABC graduates have began animal rescues, and 1000’s have volunteered at animal shelters and rescues throughout North America. To place this one other method, ABC is aware of that lots of our graduates have taken what they discovered at ABC and constructed on that basis as their paths led them in quite a lot of instructions.
It’s as a result of the pet business has so many choices and methods to specialize that we wish to make all alumni conscious of a few of our lesser-known programs and supply a major low cost to any alumni wishing to enroll in considered one of these applications.
The primary one is ABC’s Cat Coaching Program (CTP).
The CTP is an 11-stage course and covers the next matters:
- Fundamental Overview of Cats: Covers feline traits, cat breeds, coat varieties, and cat socialization and growth intervals.
- Studying Theories and the Feline Thoughts: Introduces you to cat psychology, habits, and communication.
- Cat Coaching Instruments, Conduct Modification Merchandise & Important Cat Care Objects: Describes varied cat coaching instruments and explains cat care necessities.
- Stopping Undesirable Conduct: Explains why and the way prevention can steer kittens away from undesirable habits.
- Fundamental Cat Coaching: This teaches you coaching cues to get a cat to sit down, down, and off to call a number of.
- Cat Conduct Administration and Remedy: Explains why cats have interaction in sure behaviors, corresponding to cat spraying, and teaches you handle them.
- Cat Diet and Fundamental Care: Offers you with detailed data on cat care, together with well being and grooming.
- Security Considerations, Strategies & Practices: Instructs you on correct cat security protocols, corresponding to cat-proofing a house and dealing with reactive cats.
- Enterprise Constructing: Covers enterprise constructing suggestions that can assist you begin a cat coaching enterprise upon commencement.
- Shelter Expertise & Pet First Help and CPR Certification: This lets you spend time in an animal facility and observe cat habits as a volunteer.
- Ultimate Examination & Commencement
Who ought to take this?
Any graduate who loves cats desires to assist them and the individuals who love them. This consists of groomers, canine trainers, and veterinary assistants.
Why ought to I contemplate taking this?
Canine trainers can add an important talent set to their repertoire, making them extra marketable and extra simply in a position to set up an internet presence and community. Merely put, there are an amazing many canine coaching specialists on the market however far fewer cat habits specialists. So turning into one is likely to be an clever enterprise name, to not point out that the power to coach cats means you possibly can widen your web to assist much more animals in want.
Canine groomers who perceive cat habits can supply salons the prospect to simply accept extra cats, a comparatively untapped market.
Veterinary assistants who perceive cat habits can supply invaluable experience to their hospitals.
Canine coaching, pet grooming, and veterinary aiding are aggressive fields, and turning into a cat coach would possibly assist you stand out in getting employed, promoted, and so on.
ABC feels very strongly about supporting our alumni and aiding them in being one of the best they are often. Towards that finish, all Alumni enrolling within the CTP between Could thirty first, 2022, and December thirty first, 2022, might take this course for $997.50. It is a low cost of fifty%
If you’re fascinated with profiting from this particular supply for our alumni solely, simply drop an e mail to our Director of Admissions at: Candace@animalbehaviorcollege.com She’s going to be sure you get taken care of instantly as considered one of our valued alum. For extra details about the CTP, go to: https://www.animalbehaviorcollege.com/cat-training/
Subsequent, let’s discuss our Aquatics Upkeep Program (AMP).
This course is designed for fish hobbyists who wish to take their curiosity and fervour to the following degree. Are you able to make a dwelling designing and sustaining aquatic environments? Many individuals do. Consider all of the accommodations and companies which have stunning aquariums. Who do you suppose designs them and helps preserve them? This talent set isn’t typical enterprise data, which suggests it’s a specialty, which suggests it’s often outsourced to a skilled skilled. Additionally outsourced is the upkeep (and typically) the design of superior, high-end aquariums for high-net-worth people.
Nonetheless, others don’t want to design aquariums professionally however completely love sustaining them and easily can’t be taught sufficient about this fascinating subject to allow them to extra successfully take pleasure in their favourite pastime.
The AMP is a 10-stage program that covers the next matters:
- Aquarium Upkeep Fundamentals: Introduces you to matters corresponding to aquarium chemistry and the nitrogen cycle, rules of animal husbandry, routine aquarium upkeep necessities, troubleshooting and water parameter pointers.
- Aquarium Setup Fundamentals: This stage covers meet shoppers’ wants and expectations in addition to construct a system, aquarium sourcing, tank sizing, aquarium set up, set up an aquarium and including livestock.
- Freshwater Aquariums: This stage discusses all varieties of specialty freshwater aquarium setup and husbandry necessities, with a concentrate on the next matters: necessities for a fish-centric show setup, breakdown of freshwater fish varieties, “monster” fish programs, cichlid programs, tropical fish programs and troubleshooting freshwater fish tanks. Additionally, you will study planted fish tank layouts, aquascaping, hybrid paludarium setups, fish tank design, freshwater fish care and husbandry.
- Saltwater Aquariums: Subjects embody fish-only tank design, setup a saltwater aquarium, understanding reef aquariums, saltwater species compatibility fundamentals, coral care necessities, troubleshooting saltwater tanks and husbandry concerns.
- Pond Fundamentals: Subjects embody the fundamentals of pond care, pond upkeep procedures and schedule, pond gear, long-term pond upkeep, troubleshooting, species info and pond fish care.
- Species Guides and Sourcing: This stage will present in-depth care necessities and compatibility info for quite a lot of freshwater and saltwater species. Subjects embody freshwater species information, saltwater species information, sourcing livestock, husbandry necessities, compatibility info, healthcare, acclimation, feeding, and long-term care. Additionally, you will discover ways to set up a breeding/replica fish tank setup for buyer gross sales.
- Tools Upkeep: You’ll develop into acquainted with gear buying concerns, evaluating gear for shopper wants, and long-term servicing of aquarium gear. This stage additionally covers organising and sustaining aquarium gear, scheduling and performing long-term aquarium gear upkeep and primary aquarium service gear wants.
- Business Aquariums: Learn to scale an operation and start sustaining giant and extra elaborate programs for business shoppers. Subjects embody benefits of business clientele, business aquariums as commercials, concerns of constructing bigger business aquarium setups and aquarium upkeep necessities and scheduling.
- Enterprise Constructing: Covers take what you may have discovered and apply it to constructing your personal enterprise.
- Ultimate Examination and Commencement
Who ought to take this?
Any alumni who love designing or sustaining aquariums and want to be taught extra or begin a profession designing and sustaining aquariums.
Why ought to I contemplate taking this?
Since you love maintaining fish or designing aquariums and wish to be taught extra. As a result of you’re looking at different enterprise alternatives, and this one intrigues you.
ABC feels very strongly about supporting our alumni and aiding them in being one of the best they are often. Towards that finish, all Alumni enrolling within the AMP between Could thirty first, 2022, and December thirty first, 2022, might take this course for $997.50. It is a low cost of fifty%
If you’re fascinated with profiting from this particular supply for our alumni solely, simply drop an e mail to our Director of Admissions at: Candace@animalbehaviorcollege.com She’s going to be sure you get taken care of instantly as considered one of our valued alum. For extra details about the AMP, go to: https://www.animalbehaviorcollege.com/aquarium-maintenance/
Lastly, let’s discuss what many people at ABC contemplate our most wonderful new program. That’s not fairly proper. Let me put this one other method. When ABC administration and workers have a look at our applications, the reactions are often one thing like this; Everybody likes the programs and believes they may also help those that take them. Some of us at ABC have an interest sufficient in a selected program that they wish to take it themselves, however not everybody. Do all of the canine coach individuals want to take AMP or the CTP? Nope. Many do, however not everybody. That is true of our groomer and veterinary graduates as properly. But, everybody who heard about our Zookeeper Assistant Program (ZAP), and I imply each single particular person, had the identical response. “Oh! That’s so wonderful! I wish to take this!” “Do you wish to be taught to be a zookeeper assistant?” we requested. “No, however I’ve all the time cherished and been fascinated with wild (unique) animals, and this might be an amazing program to take even when only for enjoyable and studying about these wonderful animals!”
The ZAP is a 10-stage program that covers the next matters:
- Introduction to Zoos and Zookeeping: College students will study zoos, wildlife sanctuaries, and accreditation. This stage additionally covers zoo rules, zookeeper obligations and what working at a zoo is like.
- Unique Animal Housing and Displays: Info all about housing animals on the zoo together with construct an animal exhibit together with horticulture, furnishings, substrate, visitor and animal security, pest management and enclosure upkeep.
- Animal Well being: College students will be taught all about unique animal well being together with animal vitamin and weight loss program, animal restraint and seize, the warning indicators of sickness or stress, and all about routine medical care and coverings for unique animals within the zoo.
- Zoo Conservation and Breeding Packages: Learn the way zoo workers and volunteers make a distinction on the planet of animal conservation. This stage covers Species Survival Plans, animal replica, Studbooks and inhabitants administration, animal re-introduction applications and analysis.
- Unique Animal Conduct, Enrichment and Coaching: Discover the fundamentals of coaching philosophy together with classical and operant conditioning, in addition to, resolve habits issues. This stage additionally covers the pure behaviors of zoo animals together with various kinds of enrichment corresponding to food-based, bodily, sensory, and social, for a myriad of various species.
- Each day Zookeeping Routines and Husbandry: This stage critiques the other ways zoos and wildlife sanctuaries maintain monitor of their animal inhabitants.
- Zookeeping Security: Topics on this stage embody authorized necessities, work hazards, zoonotic illness prevention, zookeeper assistant security, visitor security, animal security, emergency response and evacuation plans for each friends and animals.
- Zoo Customer Schooling and Relations: You’ll discover ways to educate totally different audiences that go to the zoo, together with youngsters and adults. Emotional, mental, and behavioral schooling methods, in addition to neighborhood outreach can also be coated.
- Constructing your Zookeeper Assistant Profession: Be taught concerning the subsequent steps in your zookeeping assistant schooling and discover work at a zoo or wildlife sanctuary.
- Ultimate Examination and Commencement
Who ought to take this?
Any alumni with a ardour for unique animals or wildlife conservation and anybody fascinated with getting concerned on this a part of the animal business.
Why ought to I contemplate taking this?
Since you spend extra time watching wild animal exhibits than you do with your loved ones. As a result of you may have a deep curiosity and fervour on this subject and wish to be taught extra. As a result of you may have a real need to work in a zoo or wild animal rescue setting and would love a foundational understanding of unique animals and zookeeping generally.
ABC feels very strongly about supporting our alumni and aiding them in being one of the best they are often. Towards that finish, all Alumni enrolling within the ZAP between Could thirty first, 2022, and December thirty first, 2022, might take this course for $997.50. It is a low cost of fifty%
If you’re fascinated with profiting from this particular supply for our alumni solely, simply drop an e mail to our Director of Admissions at: Candace@animalbehaviorcollege.com She’s going to be sure you get taken care of instantly as considered one of our valued alum. For extra details about the ZAP, go to: https://www.animalbehaviorcollege.com/zookeeper-assistant/
