With the guidance of step-by-step lessons, you will learn to train your dog to be friendly, patient, confident, gentle, and at ease in all situations for visiting hospitals, libraries, nursing homes, schools and assisted living facilities.
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Are you looking forward to working with your dog to visit facilities such as hospitals, nursing homes, and schools or train your pet dog for various forms of assistance, with an emphasis on therapy training? This online therapy dog training course can be an excellent solution for you and your dog. Our online Certified Therapy Dog Training Course is developed by the SDTSI team of trusted, experienced behavioral experts, who have 30+ years of combined professional animal care and dog training experience.
This course will help you learn:
• the benefits therapy dogs can provide
• basic control for therapy work
• conditioning the dog to handling
• public access and a wide variety of specific animal-assisted therapy tasks
Friendly dogs and friendly owners who are willing to work as a team and get quick access to visit care centers, hospitals, nursing homes, schools, libraries, etc, and enrich the lives of people there by interacting with them.
Dogs should be one year or older. Be house trained, vaccinated, and well-groomed.
1. receive a qualified therapy dog, an official therapy dog ID, which will allow you and your dog to access care centers or other therapy dog allowed facilities. To view a sample of the award, please click here.
2. obtain a certificate issued by SERVICEDOG TRAINING SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL: Therapy Dog Certificate. To view a sample, please click here.
It means your dog has been trained to perform the work or task as a therapy dog.
The primary purpose of certification is to ensure that your dog is fully trained as a therapy dog, and that you are ready to pass any of the various certification tests after completing the course.
Lesson 1 The Definition of Therapy Dogs
Lesson 2 Which Dogs Can Be Therapy Dogs
Lesson 3 Basic Principles & Commands for Therapy Dogs
Lesson 4 First Things First - Pick Up the Therapy Dogs
Lesson 5 First Things to Teach Your Therapy Dog
Lesson 6 Public Access Training
Lesson 7 Essential Skills for Any Therapy Dog Work
Lesson 8 The Tasks of the Therapy Dog Handler
All study materials
Study Guide
Full Tutor and Admin support
The course fee includes the therapy dog registration fee ($39.00).
Are you looking forward to working with your dog to visit facilities such as hospitals, nursing homes, and schools or train your pet dog for various forms of assistance, with an emphasis on therapy training? This online therapy dog training course can be an excellent solution for you and your dog. Our online Certified Therapy Dog Training Course is developed by the SDTSI team of trusted, experienced behavioral experts, who have 30+ years of combined professional animal care and dog training experience.
This course will help you learn:
• the benefits therapy dogs can provide
• basic control for therapy work
• conditioning the dog to handling
• public access and a wide variety of specific animal-assisted therapy tasks
Friendly dogs and friendly owners who are willing to work as a team and get quick access to visit care centers, hospitals, nursing homes, schools, libraries, etc, and enrich the lives of people there by interacting with them.
Dogs should be one year or older. Be house trained, vaccinated, and well-groomed.
1. receive a qualified therapy dog, an official therapy dog ID, which will allow you and your dog to access care centers or other therapy dog allowed facilities. To view a sample of the award, please click here.
2. obtain a certificate issued by SERVICEDOG TRAINING SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL: Therapy Dog Certificate. To view a sample, please click here.
It means your dog has been trained to perform the work or task as a therapy dog.
The primary purpose of certification is to ensure that your dog is fully trained as a therapy dog, and that you are ready to pass any of the various certification tests after completing the course.
Lesson 1 The Definition of Therapy Dogs
Lesson 2 Which Dogs Can Be Therapy Dogs
Lesson 3 Basic Principles & Commands for Therapy Dogs
Lesson 4 First Things First - Pick Up the Therapy Dogs
Lesson 5 First Things to Teach Your Therapy Dog
Lesson 6 Public Access Training
Lesson 7 Essential Skills for Any Therapy Dog Work
Lesson 8 The Tasks of the Therapy Dog Handler
All study materials
Study Guide
Full Tutor and Admin support
The course fee includes the therapy dog registration fee ($39.00).
No Breed, Size or Weight Restriction
Trained to perform work or task
Behave in public and under control of handler
Animal must be up to date with all vaccinations
