Course ID: AC118
This online dog training course will teach you how to understand what your dog is saying. Using psychology you can learn to understand what is normal behaviour in a dog, how to deal with common problems and how to train dogs so that their relationships with people are happy and safe.
- Online course
- Flexible study options
- Interest free payment plans from $25/week
- Experience and friendly tutor support.
What You Will Study:
- Describe how canine animals think and discuss the relevance of understanding canine psychology to people.
- Explain how canine animals communicate and formulate an understanding of possible ways that a human may communicate with a dog.
- Understand behaviours that are natural and predictable in canines and learn to recognise and understand signals that dogs give.
- Explain how dogs develop behavioural characteristics throughout stages of their life.
- Describe commonly occurring behavioural problems in dogs.
- Develop a program for training a new pet dog when it is brought into a household.
- Explain how to train a dog to perform predetermined actions upon command.
- Describe how the movement of dogs can be controlled, both through training and other methods.
- Describe how dogs can be trained to perform tasks required as a working dog, including a sheep dog, tracking dog, blind dog or substance detection dog.
Dog Psychology Course Outline:
There are 9 lessons in this course:
- Nature and Scope of Canine Psychology
- A brief history of the canine evolution
- Self-domestication
- Canine industries
- Canine Senses
- Understanding canine communication
- Sight
- Body Language
- Smell
- Sound
- Elimination Postures
- Understanding Natural Canine Behaviour
- Social Structure
- Social Behaviour
- Aggression
- Clinical Problems
- Biological Rhythms
- Sleep
- Sexual Behaviour
- Maternal Behaviour
- Parturition
- Suckling and Weaning
- Eating and Drinking
- Canine Behavioural Development
- Nature or Nurture
- Sensitive Periods
- Neurological Development
- Canine Temperament Testing
- How Breeds Differ
- Canine Behavioural Disorders
- Attention Seeking Behavior
- Excessive barking
- Chewing
- Running away
- Chasing moving objects
- Begging
- Digging
- Separation anxiety
- Aggression
- Phobias
- Excessive compulsive disorders
- Cognitive Dysfunction
- Calming a dog
- Basic Dog Training
- Forming habits
- Conditioning
- Classical Conditioning
- Operant Conditioning
- Socialisation
- House training
- The use of visual signals
- The use of voice commands
- The use of training aids
- Dog Obedience Training
- Practical Training Techniques
- Recall
- Sit
- Stand
- Drop
- Leave
- Down
- Stay
- Heel
- Seek
- Retrieve
- Bark on Signal
- Controlling a Dogs Movement
- Territorial nature of dogs
- Fencing
- Dog doors
- Kennels
- Exercise requirements
- Socialization requirements
- Walking on a lead/leash
- Electronic barriers
- Microchips
- Pet Registration and Licensing
- Controlling Killing Wildlife
- Training Working Dogs
- Training for scent discrimination or substance detection
- Training for retrieving
- Guarding
- Hearing dogs
- Herding
- Tracking
- Controlling attacks on animals and people