Pet Care Courses

Do You Want To Understand What Your Animal Is Thinking?

This course is relevant to pet owners, veterinary assistants, or people who work with animals on farms, zoos, pet shops and trainers.

In understanding animal behaviour, we extend our basis for understanding human behaviour, and as such, the course may also be valuable for anyone studying general psychology.

Lessons cover

• influences and motivation
• animal perception and behaviour
• environmental effects on behaviour
• instinct and learning
• socialisation
• handling animals
• problem behaviour.

Learn to Care for the Health and Well-being of Animals

This Animal Health Care course is relevant to any type of animal but it focuses on mammals and birds.

You will learn about the range of services offered by animal care services, including veterinary practices.

The course is suitable for anyone interested in working with animals in different settings, including:

• farm (production) animals
• wildlife parks
• veterinary practices.

This is a sound foundation course and designed to cover most of what is found in a typical veterinary assistants course in many countries around the world.

Distance Education Course - Animal Disease Diagnosis Procedures

What is that disease?

How do I find out?

Learn the steps involved in examining sick or dead animals, and how to collect symptomatic information or tissue samples that will aid in making a diagnosis. The course will help you to recognise a disease and determine an appropriate course of action to initiate in order to obtain a diagnosis.

A home study course that will improve your animal care skills.

Understand what motivates the behaviour of your horse

The study of equine behaviour provides a foundation for more sensitive and informed care and training of horses. Lessons cover genetics, perception and behaviour, communication and social behaviour, sexual and reproductive behaviour, learning and training and behavioural problems. Anyone who works with horses will get value from completing the course. Horses are large animals in relation to their human trainers and they cannot be trained safely or effectively using brute force.

Having a deeper understanding of equine behaviour and intelligence will allow you to minimise the frustration you may often feel when trying to handle your horse.

Anyone who owns horses and wants to care for them and provide them with the most suitable living environment can attempt the Horse Care Course I. It will enable you to utilize a variety of procedures to manage horses. Having an array of suitable topics and contents, this course will cater to your horse care and management needs.

This 100-hour long course is designed for individuals who want to widen their horse management project and make it more cost-efficient. This course will help you provide your horses with the most favourable living environment and protect them from harmful conditions.

The Horse Care Course II is an ideal foundation course for individuals who aim to work with and look after horses. Whether you own horses for commercial reasons or as a hobby, this course will provide you with the right knowledge and expertise to manage them easily. The course outline ensures that you have appropriate skills to maximize your equine supplies business, riding school, stud, or farm.

In this course, you will learn about diverse facilities that are essential for any horse enterprise. Though the Horse Care Course II does not involve any major prerequisites, completing the Horse Care Course I before attempting this course is beneficial for all students.

The Horse Care Course III is available to anyone who wants to improve their knowledge regarding equine wellbeing, safety, and health. This course is designed to assist you with the management horses in diverse situations. You will learn to minimise potential risks that can affect the general health of horses. Furthermore, the contents of this course will enable you to determine the financial capability of your horse enterprise.

This course does not involve any considerable education-related prerequisites. Though the contents of the Horse Care Course III can stand alone, it is better to have completed the Horse Care Courses I and II before attempting this one. In this course, you will get the basic knowledge required to address the problems of horses appropriately and take the right corrective measures.

Home Study Course - Natural Health Care For Animals.

Technology has come a long way in the treatment of disease in both domestic and livestock.

The conventional approach used by most veterinary practices has had great success in treating ailments such as acute infection and trauma. One problem that has come from this conventional approach to treatment is the narrowing view of how ailments can be treated and the growing reliance on chemical products for treatment.

This has lead to the re-emergence of holistic therapies for animals. Practitioners who use this holistic approach to the treatment of illness in animals believe that symptoms represent the action of an individual’s “life force”. To protect an animal’s life force, symptoms are created such as diarrhoea, vomiting, coughing and sneezing to throw off the disturbance.

This unique course examine topics such as

• natural nutrition for health
• the limitations of natural health care
• signs of ill health
• maintaining health
• treating health problems
• domestic animals
• livestock
• includes a research project so that you can really get into a relevant topic that interests you.

This is a great course for pet owners or anyone working with pets. This course provides a sound introduction to caring for a wide variety of different pets including

• dogs
• cats
• fish
• birds
• rabbits
• rodents
• reptiles
• amphibians.

Examined within the course are aspects of pet care such as

• ideal diets and food
• care of coats feathers, hair etc.
• enclosures such as tanks etc
• care of litters and young animals and more.

The Pet Care Course is designed as an introductory course for those seeking to work with animals in positions such as vet nurses, animal welfare and animal rescue.