How To Become A Professional Dog Trainer – Career In Dog Training

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If you love dogs, and would like to know how to get started in becoming a certified, professional dog trainer…



A long time ago it was my dream to become an animal trainer, I always loved animals and I knew being around dogs as a career would be amazing!

How could anyone want to work at a desk when you could be outside spending time with beautiful dogs and getting paid for it?

It was early on when I decided I didn’t want to have an average boring job – I wanted to follow my passion.

You get to meet great dogs and people – Everyday you’ll meet new and interesting people and their dogs. You’ll get to find out exactly how they think and hear their unique stories.

You help both dogs and people – Nothing is more rewarding then finishing the day knowing you made a difference. I can’t tell you how many times people have wanted to abandon their dogs in shelters and with just a few sessions, everything changes.

The 9-5 hours doesn’t exist – If you are a dog trainer you won’t have to work the same hours as everyone else. You can work as and when you want to, athours that suit you and your lifestyle.

Every day is a little bit different – You won’t be one of the millions of people that complain everyday of the same boring job, since, as a dog trainer you will face new challenges everyday and you’ll love it.

Your job is mobile – Being a dog trainer is a profession that will always be needed, it can never go obsolete and is useful wherever you want to live be it the US, Canada or even Australia!

You can potentially be your own boss – You don’t have to but if you want to, you can start your own lucrative dog training business very easily…

I can tell you right now it sounded great all those years ago, but there was one MAJOR problem in my plan…

I was pretty oblivious to what knowledge or skills were needed to become a trainer and seeing that there wasn’t any university that offer a dog training degree… becoming a dog trainer was a very confusing career path.

But I was so passionate about pursuing my dream career, I ploughed ahead anyway volunteering for free at animal shelters, studied at night and put in long hours before I ever got a chance to start training dogs. And like most people I know, I ended up learning the hard way – through experience.

I’ve worked with literally hundreds of dogs and trained under famous dog trainers.

I’m a certified dog trainer with the San Francisco SPCA Academy for Dog Trainers and also a professional marine mammal trainer.

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