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Animal Feed & Nutrition (Animal Husbandry III)

  EVALUATE AND SELECT FEEDS Learn the composition of a range of feeds, including pasture, fodder crops, grasses, cereals, seed, and other edible plants. This course also explains the role of proteins, vitamins and minerals in animal diets. It equips you with the skills required to evaluate feeding and select appropriate feeds - for digestibility and nutritional content - applicable to real life farming situations. What do Animals Eat? Learn to manage food and nutrition for pets, farm animals or wildlife in zoos. Learn the composition of a range of feeds, including pasture, fodder crops, grasses, cereals, seed, and other edible plants. This course also explains the role of proteins, vitamins and minerals in animal diets. It equips you with the skills required to evaluate feeding and select appropriate feeds - for digestibility and nutritional content - applicable to real life farming situations.
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Animal Health Care For Beginners

  Learn to care for the health of any type of animal and understand the scope of services offered by animal care services, including in veterinary practices. This course is appropriate for anyone interested in working with animals including on a farm, a wildlife park or a veterinary practice. It is a sound foundation course and  has been designed to help you understand animal health care and basic veterinarian practices. Scope of Animal Health Work People have domesticated animals for various reasons, in particular, as pets (to keep them company), and as farm animals (to either work or to provide a product such as meat, wool or dairy produce). Whatever the reason animals are being kept, it is now well accepted that the owners of any animal have a responsibility toward the animal they keep. That responsibility is both a matter of ethics, and increasingly is also a matter of law.
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Diagnosing Animal Diseases

  Distance Learning Course for anyone who works with Animals What Disease is that? Study this course and gain a foundation that allows you to systematically investigate and determine health issues in animals. Routine disease investigations are based on clinical, pathological and epidemiological evidence. If there is a need for conclusive identification of a disease or condition, an accurate laboratory diagnosis should be obtained. It is particularly important, especially in the case of infectious diseases that the final diagnosis rests on adequate aetiological evidence. In most cases disease investigations are carried out by qualified government stock inspectors and/or veterinarians. It helps for animal owners to understand and be able to recognise diseases conditions that may affect their animals, so that timely intervention can occur.
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Fun Dog Agility Class Instructor

  Dog agility has become one of the most popular activities for dog owners. With many groups boasting waiting lists of up to six months to join, there is certainly a demand for classes. One of the best things about becoming a fun agility trainer is that you can fit your classes around other commitments, and chose exactly how many you wish to run. Agility is performed at both a fun level, and also at serious competition level. The aim of the course is to equip you, the student, with the knowledge and understanding required to enable you not only to participate at a fun level, but also set up and run your own potentially very profitable fun agility classes. The knowledge gained in this course will equip you to then progress to further studies to teach classes or participate at competition level if you so wish.
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Introduction to Dog Behaviour

  It doesn't matter if you're a fan of Victoria Stilwell or Cesar Millan, this Dog Behaviour course is written from a neutral standpoint, offering the latest info and studies, the newest understanding of social structure in dogs, and debating hot topics such as dominance in dogs. With thorough chapters on everything from Operant conditioning, including clicker training, to the principles and techniques of Cesar Millan, there is something for everyone. This course will get you thinking about dogs and dog behaviour like never before. Devised by a practicing Behaviourist for every day dog owners and anyone who works or has regular contact in a professional capacity with dogs i.e kennel assistants, dog sitters, groomers etc. This international best selling course is unique for many reasons.  It is the first of its kind to study and consider both Positive Reward Training and its application in the human-dog relationship, and the more physical world of dog behaviour between dogs. Find yourself immersed in the debate of topics such as pack structure, appeasement societies, the need for an authority figure, and the relevant scientific studies. Far from a course that exists to merely educate from one perspective, this course will challenge everything you thought you knew about dogs and dog psychology, calling on the work of Fisher, Scott and Fuller, Bruce Fogle, Cesar Millan, Ray and Lorna Coppinger, Stephen Budiansky, Ian Dunbar and many more leading experts
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Puppy Care

  Everyone loves a puppy. With their cute little faces and adorable play behaviours, how could you not? What many people don’t take into account when buying a puppy is the amount of work that needs to go into caring for and raising a well balanced pup that can then grow into a well behaved and happy adult dog. There is little or no consideration made for the complexities of owning a pup, breed differences and how much it will all cost. Many people don’t consider the fact that puppies don’t stay that way forever, and soon they’ll have an adult dog whose behaviours, temperaments, fears and phobias are largely based on genetics and environment, i.e. how they, the owners, raised and cared for them. As is the case with raising a child, it is very easy to get things wrong when bringing up a puppy. You need to know the ropes before the pup becomes part of the family, or you may be on a downwards slide from moment one. It is a sad and shocking fact that one in five people who bought a puppy have either re-homed it or taken it to a rescue centre by the age of two. The aim of this course is to equip the student with the knowledge needed to raise the perfect pup from day one, whether in a home environment, or if you want to work with puppies. With the right information, you can help that puppy grow into a balanced, confident adult, free of aggression, behavioural issues, fears, phobias and anxieties. It covers everything from choosing the right breed to housetraining and feeding right up to socialisation and stimulating his growing and developing mind. Learn about puppy health and nutrition, how a dog learns and how to address unwanted behaviours.
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Zookeeping

  Study Zookeeping, and gain the foundation knowledge and skills you will need to start your career as a Zoo Keeper. There are 9 lessons in this course: The Nature and Scope of Zoos What is a Zoo? The Evolution of Zoos Change in Zoo Design Modern Zoos and Sanctuaries Legislation Codes of Practices Animal Welfare Enrichment Record Keeping Identification Tags Animal Taxonomy Phylums & Classes of the Animal Kingdom The Function of Zoos Research and Zoos Education in Zoos Occupational Health and Safety in Zoos Workplace Health & Safety Legislation Health & Safety Management in Zoos Zoonoses Legionnaires Disease Other Safety Issues Risk Management Captive Husbandry - Nutrition and Feeding Animal Nutrition The Effect of Poor Nutrition on Animal Behaviour Water Requirements Essential Dietary Components Vitamins & Minerals Food Storage & Preparation Presentation of Food Captive Husbandry - Health Monitoring Health Maintaining Health Diseases Quarantine Record Keeping/Animal Transfer Data Enrichment Data Transfer Form Captive Husbandry - Reproduction The Need for Captive Breeding Captive Breeding in Zoos Goals of Captive Breeding Issues with Captive Breeding Inbreeding Risks Captive Breeding Programs Monitoring the Reproductive Status of Zoo Animals Assisted Reproduction Stud Books Birth Control and Separation Captive Husbandry - Behaviour and Enrichment Ethology Behaviour Types of Behaviour Behaviours in Captive Animals Learned Behaviour The Flight or Fight Response Animal Behaviours Animal Welfare Indicators Environmental Influence on Behaviour Behaviour Management Environmental Enrichment Human-Animal Interactions Keeper-Animal Interactions Visitor Animal Interactions Dealing with Dangerous Animals Flight Distance of Animals Handling Animals Visitor Animal Interactions Stress Reduction Enclosure Design and Maintenance Optimum Enclosure Design The Perfect Enclosure? Replicating Nature Providing Stimulating Environments Physical Enrichment Feeding Enrichment Sensory Enrichment Social Enrichment Problem-based Learning Project - Environmental Enrichment Introduction and Definition of PBL Problem Definition Team Structure and Interaction Discussion Resources Guidelines Final Report Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading. Aims Describe the nature and scope of zoos as a source of education and conservation Develop appropriate procedures for managing occupational health and safety in a zoo, with a view to minimising risk to staff, animals and visitors Describe the nutritional requirements and feeding preferences of animals within zoos Determine health management measures required for a range of different captive zoo animals Describe the management of breeding in zoos Determine appropriate ways to manage a range of different wild animals in zoos Explain procedures and techniques used to manage human-animal interactions in zoos Identify and describe the qualities of good enclosure design. Develop maintenance programs for different enclosures
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Dog Behaviour Practitioner

  No other course better prepares you for the real world of being a Dog Behaviourist. Devised by a practicing Behaviourist, this course is specifically for those who wish to become a Dog Behaviourist themselves, and don’t know where to start. Again, this course is unique for the same reasons that make the Dog Behaviour Course unique.  It is the first of its kind to study and consider both Positive Reward Training and its application in the human-dog relationship, and the more physical world of dog behaviour between dogs. Find yourself immersed in the debate of topics such as pack structure, appeasement societies, the need for an authority figure, and the relevant scientific studies. Far from a course that exists to merely educate from one perspective, this course will challenge everything you thought you knew about dogs and dog psychology, calling on the work of Fisher, Scott and Fuller, Bruce Fogle, Cesar Millan, Ray and Lorna Coppinger, Stephen Budiansky, Ian Dunbar and many more leading experts. Additional units are designed to not only cover training and behaviour, but the practical aspects of setting up in business, conducting a consultation, follow up sessions, monitoring progress, the law, health & safety, and your role as Dog Behaviourist, Teacher, Trainer, Mentor and Coach.
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