Understand how to begin a pet sitting business and your legal responsibilities. Learn critical elements of dog handling and expectations of the typical family and their pets. Insurance cover requirements and national laws that relate to dogs. This Dog walking and Pet Sitting course equips you fully to work in the business part or full time.

Looking after people's dogs can be most rewarding and is one of the fastest growing occupations in Britain today. As laws change it essential that you have a qualification that demonstrates your ability to care for clients' pets in a responsible way. This module covers dogs, cats and other small pets. It also has a section on dog walking which is the second part of home sitter's duties in many cases.

This is a 3 part distance learning based module and covers many subjects.

Content in brief:

• Examine the general principles of pet care, as they relate to a wide range of different types of pets.
• Examine routine care for cats.
• Learn the characteristics of different cat breeds.
• Learn various routine care for dogs and corresponding exercise needs.
• Examine breed characteristics of different dogs.
• Understand routine care for birds as pets.
• Understand routine care for fish (cold water and tropical).
• Understand routine care for rabbits as pets.
• Understand routine care for reptiles and amphibians.
• Understand routine care for rodents.

Dog walking content in brief:

• Characteristics of dogs in a group
• Meeting a new dog and client
• Establishing leadership of your charge
• Control conditioning
• Poop scooping
• All weather walking in Britain’s climate
• Car training step by step (you can teach an old dog new tricks!)
• Losing a dog in a public place (security before the walk)
• Training and handling equipment essentials
• Insurance legalities
• Dog law.
• Canine etiquette
• The doggy extras - owners request
• Marketing and basic book-keeping
• Dog walking and pet sitting associations.