Interested In Becoming a Professional Dog Trainer?

  • Alpha Canine Professional offers two professional dog trainer course options for those looking to enter the dog training industry or for instructors looking to improve their skills and knowledge

  • Alpha Canine Professional dog trainer courses have been developed by dog trainers for dog trainers - teaching only the most effective, practical and relevant methods that will be used when working with real owners and their real dogs

  • Our courses include:

    • Proven training and behaviour shaping methods

    • Modern and relevant canine learning and behavioural theory

    • Access to many different dogs for handling, training and behaviour shaping

    • A professional, purpose-built training facility

    • Exposure to successful dog boarding and training businesses

    • Professional instructors who are active in the industry

Visit the Alpha Canine Professional Website to view the 2 professional courses available!

Part Time Trainer’s Course

Developed By Dog Trainers, For Dog Trainers

  • This course is unique within the industry and offers successful applicants the opportunity to learn their craft within a successful business model (Alpha Dog Training).

  • Students will be able to apply their teaching skills in real training scenarios, with real owners and their dogs.

  • Student trainers will see and experience the results of progressive approaches to teaching owners and training dogs that are based on many years of extensive research and development. When combined with the 'hands-on' handling and training of many different dogs throughout the course, the learning opportunities are invaluable.

  • The focus of this course is to teach trainees how to develop a genuine feel for teaching different dogs good manners, leadership obedience and where applicable, rehabilitation techniques that target and interrupt unacceptable canine behaviour.

  • The 'Lead By Example' standard set by Alpha Canine Professional ensures that you will be learning from dedicated and experienced instructors who teach with their own well trained and behaved dogs by their side.

  • The instructors are capable of demonstrating the methods being taught with their own dog or with a customer’s dog that is learning an exercise for the first time.

Course Requirements

  • Attendance at 5 compulsory half-day workshops, with the exception of the February workshop which is a full-day

  • Attendance at 10 lectures (approximately 2 hours) which take place on Sunday afternoon’s after the completion of Alpha Dog Training Classes.

  • Supervised dog handling to be completed at the Alpha Canine Centre or Alpha Boarding kennels (150 dogs over the 12 month course or 220 dogs over the 18 month option)

  • Compulsory attendance at Alpha Dog Training on Wednesday evenings and Sunday mornings for the duration of the course

  • Compulsory attendance of Sunday morning training sessions prior to the commencement of Alpha Dog Training Classes

  • Completion of ‘teacher testing’ where students demonstrate their ability to correctly teach obedience exercises throughout the course

  • Participants MUST have their own dog. Student trainer’s will be expected to complete testing to prove that their dog is at the required standard before the completion of their course

  • Due to the above requirements; course participants should be based in Melbourne

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