Here’s a guide to help you in your pursuit of training dogs for a living. ![]() But the best dog trainers explore all paths and recognize that the journey never ends. And still, others choose a more formal route by attending an academy for dog trainers. Seminars and workshops provide an education for a lot of trainers. Others learn by apprenticing with an established trainer. Many trainers are self-taught, relying on books, videos, and personal experience for their education. There are many routes one might take to gain the skills and experience required to train other people’s dogs. A word of advice: As a person who loves dogs, you can, and will, go the distance for the good of the dog, but at a certain point - sooner rather than later, if you want to avoid burnout - you just have to let it go. But there are also clients who will challenge you at every level of your being, who will question your expertise, fail to do their homework, and then complain that their dog is not improving, and disappear when they recognize how much work is involved. There are many, many wonderful pet parents who put everything they have into training and rehabilitating their dogs. ![]() And the success of a dog’s training program depends upon the human’s compliance with that program. Sure, you could land a job training service dogs or dogs living in shelters, but the vast majority of dog trainers earn a living by teaching classes and private lessons for pet parents. But before you take the plunge into the career of your dreams, ask yourself this very important question: How do you feel about people? Most of dog training entails teaching people. You want to become a dog trainer because you love dogs, right? Makes sense. ![]() See our privacy statement to find out how we collect and use your data, to contact us with privacy questions or to exercise your personal data rights.
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