PROFESSIONAL COURSE
IN THE JOB OF DOG TRAINER
The pet dog trainer always strives, in the content of their training, to respect the emotional, mental and physical nature of the dog, to teach owners to communicate and interact with their dogs, to socialize and familiarize dogs with their environments and to respect their client in welcoming and supporting them.
General content of this training
Method of education of the
clicker training
Through this method recognized to promote the learning of our pet dogs, you will learn to use the different rewards, social and taste, to optimize the educational cooperation of dogs and the impact of motivation on learning. The notion and exercise of timing will also be transmitted to you in the use of this educational method.
Scientific laws of learning applied to everyday life
The scientific laws that govern positive learning are fundamental to understanding the concept of conditioning and the impact of reinforcements and punishments on behavior. Its daily applications will allow you to better define the learning mechanisms in dogs.
Social communication
of the pet dog
Differentiating between character, emotion, behavior and communication signals will be necessary in the exercise and understanding of communication and social behavior of dogs. You will learn to analyze annoying behaviors in order to prevent them, to understand the different trigger mechanisms and to define the limits of adaptation of a pet dog. The notions of socialization and familiarization and the establishment of gestural and verbal markers will also be necessary in order to accommodate the management of a good relationship with a pet dog.
Professional approach to dog training
Developing an education program to optimize the adaptation of the pet dog in its environment is fundamental in the process of this training. We will also support you in learning how to manage individual, home and group courses and more, dogs in groups in order to practice the profession of dog trainer. In a professional approach, he recognizes his limits of skills and knows how to refer and work with other professionals in the dog professions.
L'expérience en refuge vous permettra d'aborder divers profils de chiens sans pour autant pouvoir vous appuyer sur les dires d'un maîtres. Vous apprendrez à lire, communiquer, gérer vos postures pour mieux communiquer avec eux. Des exercices pratiques vous permettront d'optimiser votre pratique et de leur apporter les atouts nécessaires pour unen
adoption à venir.
Approche en refuge
For whom?
Open to dog professionals in order to acquire additional information to optimize their professional practice; to future educators in order to obtain the theoretical and practical knowledge essential to practice as a future professional in education and behavior; to dog owners, wishing to go in depth in the educational and behavioral understanding of their dog, to acquire practical and theoretical knowledge necessary for the optimization of their relationship with their dog.
The trainers
Catherine Collignon and Nicolas Ducasse are the reference trainers, experts in dog education and behavior.
The assistant trainers are Sylvie Pedroni, dog trainer; Éléonore Canitrot, veterinary doctor and Paul Candou, multi-skilled assistant; all were trained within the Animalin Center.
Important information
Our courses are supported by video supports and slideshows. The course content may be slightly modified to optimize teaching. We pay particular attention to practice and our theoretical courses reflect a reality on the ground. The dog trainer training is divided into 4 sessions. Each session contains theoretical and practical modules, progressive and interdependent. At the end of the 4 sessions, a training certificate may be given to you. This condition will be subject to the evaluation of Catherine Collignon and Nicolas Ducasse who throughout the sessions will inform you on the points to be deepened if necessary and will be transparent about your ability to practice as a professional. You are then free to continue or stop along the way if their opinions should be unfavorable at the end of a session.
Additional information
Places
Centre Animalin, Gers (32)
Refuge de Torreilles (66)
Dates and duration
Depending on the modules
Total: 50 days
Price
Self-financing: €6,980
Support: €7,600 (for any request, contact us )
Pré-requis
Depending on the modules per session
Module 1
Module théorique proposé en visio - Dates en attente
Nota : contenu en cours de révision sera légèrement modifié
What do we know about dogs?
Determine their needs, instinctive behaviors, learned behaviors, personality, character, emotions and temperament
Define different personality types and understand their daily challenges.
Approach to canine communication
Social hierarchy, punishment and authority: what can we understand from them?
How do dogs learn?
The laws of learning applied to everyday life and positive techniques: what can we learn from them?
Understanding and managing anxiety and stress.
Education and relationship
What should we teach a pet dog?
How to prevent educational and behavioral problems?
What are the useful accessory accessories?
Reflections on the learning to be implemented on a daily basis.
Additional information
The reference trainers
Catherine Collignon and Nicolas Ducasse
Place
Animal Center - Aurimont, Gers (32)
Dates
Upcoming video dates
Duration
4.5 days - Number of hours: 33 hours
Schedules
To be confirmed
Amount in self-financing
Price per video - Pending
Amount with request for support
No support request possible
Request for quote or internship agreement
Online registration
100% - Non-refundable if you cancel
Meals and accommodation
Distance learning
Prerequisites
Aucun - Ouvert à tous
Module 2
Clicker-training
Discover your dog's willingness to interact and cooperate with you by reconsidering the notions of obedience, disobedience and hierarchy through the clicker-training method.
Dates pending for 2025
Theoretical and practical content
Approche théorique de la méthode du Clicker-training
1st day - Theoretical part
What is Clicker-training,
Why can't this technique not work?
Clicker-training learning theories,
Clicker training from the dog's point of view,
The different positive techniques to get the dog to understand what we want from him,
Understand the interest of the different values of primary and secondary reinforcements,
The rules of Clicker-training,
Understanding the proposals,
The importance of timing,
Placement of verbal and gestural orders or cues.
Practical approach to the Clicker-training method
1st and 2nd days - Practical parts
Initiating dogs to clicker training,
Building motivation to work on clicker training,
Using the lure in clicker training,
Practical exercises,
Put yourself in your dog's shoes and get him to suggest,
Setting up verbal and gestural cues: knowing how to select them, identifying those that the dog has selected, knowing how to place them.
Respond to the problem that each dog present poses to us,
Excitement and barking,
Motivation and concentration.
Additional information
Les formateur.trices référent.es
Catherine Collignon et Nicolas Ducasse
Place
Animal Center - Aurimont, Gers (32)
Dates
October 12 and 13, 2024
Duration
2 days - Number of hours: 14h
Schedules
Day 1: 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. / Day 2: 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Amount in self-financing
300 €
Amount with request for support
350 €
Demande de devis ou convention de stage
Inscription en ligne
30% as a reservation: €90
Limited participation
10 participants - 1 dog/participant
Meals and accommodation
Not included
Camping pitch 15€/person/night
Prerequisites
Coming with a dog
Module 3
Clicker training
Découvrir la volonté d'interagir et de coopérer de votre chien avec vous en reconsidérant les notions d'obéissance, de désobéissance et de hiérarchie à travers la méthode d'éducation du clicker-training.
Dates pending for 2025
Theoretical and practical training
Review of the fundamentals of the clicker-training method
1st day - Theoretical part
Review of the fundamentals
Positive techniques covered: shaping and target targets
The rules of shaping
How Dogs Raise Criteria
Understanding the importance of proposals
Increase your timing
Making the dog efficient and creative in non-click
Solving problems of low motivation or lack of proposals
The different Targets
Approche pratique et théorique des techniques positives du façonnage et des targets cibles à travers la méthode du clicker-training
1st and 2nd days - Practical part
Positive shaping techniques and target targets
Shaping Rules for Beginners and Advanced Dogs
How do dogs increase criteria?
Understanding the importance of propositions in these two techniques,
Increase your timing,
Make the dog efficient and creative in non-click,
Solve problems of decreased motivation, lack of proposals, excitability or lack of concentration,
Exercises with different targets and goals.
Additional information
The reference trainers
Catherine Collignon and Nicolas Ducasse
Lieu
Animal Center - Aurimont, Gers (32)
Dates
October 19 and 20, 2024
Duration
2 days - Number of hours: 14h
Schedules
9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Amount in self-financing
300 €
Amount with request for support
350 €
Request for quote or internship agreement
Inscription en ligne
30% as a reservation: €90
Limited participation
10 participants - 1 dog/participant
Meals and accommodation
Not included
Camping pitch 15€/person/night
Prerequisites
Have completed the Clicker-training module level 1
Coming with a dog
Module 4
Walking on a leash
The leash walking technique developed by Catherine Collignon originates from the laws of learning and the dog's point of view and after years of observation in the field. A technique that works on 10 out of 10 dogs.
Theoretical and practical content
Theoretical approach to the
walking on a leash
1st day - Theoretical part
The origin of the thinking around leash walking and dogs that pull on the leash: why certain recommended techniques do not work or only work on 6 out of 10 dogs
How a dog learns to pull on a daily basis
What is a reward from the dog's point of view?
The laws of learning applied daily during leash walking to get a dog to pull or stop pulling,
Understanding that from both a human and a dog perspective, the social behavior of following is inherent to both the human and canine species.
Understanding social movement and social communication.
Practical approach to the
walking on a leash
1st and 2nd days - Practical part
Understand the verbal or gestural cues that the dog will rely on and their implementation to acquire symbiosis in walking on a leash without pulling,
Clicker training exercises to optimize learning to walk on a leash in educational rehabilitation,
Learn how to stimulate and reinforce positively at the right time to optimize follow-up,
Mastering negative reinforcement to optimize static learning,
Practice walking on a leash:
capture practice,
social travel exercises,
awareness of the importance of anchoring,
Mastering the social invitation to follow.
Additional information
The reference trainers
Catherine Collignon et Nicolas Ducasse
Place
Centre Animalin - Aurimont, Gers (32)
Dates
October 26 and 27, 2024
Duration
2 days - Number of hours: 14h
Schedules
9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Amount in self-financing
300 €
Amount with request for support
350 €
Request for quote or internship agreement
Online registration
30% as a reservation: €90
Limited participation
10 participants - 1 dog/participant
Meals and accommodation
Not included
Camping pitch 15€/person/night
Prerequisites
Have completed the “Clicker-training level 1” module
Coming with a dog
Module 5
Shelter application - education and prevention
Adaptation to the environment, definition of personality and implementation of clicker-training techniques and leash walking with shelter dogs.
March 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28, 2025
Content
Practical application and adaptability through clicker training and leash walking techniques
Reading the dog and analyzing the personality of the dog present,
Body adaptation and space management based on what the dog tells us, acquisition of certain positions and learning (entering and exiting the box, statics, familiarization),
Putting on the harness and walking on a leash,
Implementation of secondary reinforcements
NB: The shelter dogs you will be working with will not have any minor or major behavioral problems.
Additional information
The referent trainers
Catherine Collignon and Nicolas Ducasse
Lieu
The SPA shelter in Torreilles (66)
Dates
from March 24 (noon) to 28 (2 p.m.), 2025
Duration
4 days - Number of hours: 33
Horaires
Hours 1st day: 12:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Other days: 9am-5pm
Last days: 9 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Amount in self-financing
650 €
Amount with request for support
690 €
Request for quote or internship agreement
Inscription en ligne
30% as a reservation: €195
Limited participation
10 participants
Meals and accommodation
Not included
Pré-requis
Have completed the “Introduction to clicker training - level 1” and “Managing walking on a leash” courses.
For professionals already working in clicker training and having completed our "Walking on a leash" course
Module 7
Interview conduct
Introduction to the profession of dog trainer through the conduct of a personalized interview adapted to the request of the owner and the needs of the dog.
Dates pending for 2025
2024 Satisfaction Survey
Overall rating: 100% very satisfied
Score on 12 different points: 93% Very satisfied - 7% satisfied
Content
Introduction to the profession of dog trainer
The positioning of a professional
Attitude towards dogs and humans
Code of Ethics
Conducting an interview
Conducting an interview
The different maintenance techniques
Building and conducting an interview for the prevention of behavioral problems and behavioral rehabilitation
Learning to Set Goals for Dog Owners
Practical exercises and role-playing, without a dog
Additional information
3 reference trainers and assistants
Catherine Collignon, reference trainer
Nicolas Ducasse, trainer at the Animalin center
Sylvie Pedroni, external assistant trainer
Place
Animal Center, Aurimont - Gers (32)
Dates
Dates pending for 2025
Duration
3 days - Number of hours: 23
Schedules
Jour 1 : 9h - 17h30 - Jour 2 et 3 : 9h30 - 17h
Montant en auto-financement
450 €
Amount with request for support
500 €
Demande de devis ou convention de stage
Inscription en ligne
30% as a reservation: €135
Limited participation
10 participants - 1 dog/participant
Meals and accommodation
Not included
Camping pitch 15€/person/night
Prerequisites
Presence of a dog not obligatory
Module 8
Contenu 80 % pratique
Nota : contenu en cours de révision sera légèrement modifié
Putting educational techniques into practice in everyday life
Day 1: 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
The dog trainer: a profession, its qualities, its objectives,
Definition of so-called positive methods
Review of the fundamentals of learning
Review and reflections on the dog's educational program for daily practical application
Day 2, 3 and 4: 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Refinement of thinking and learning logic around the dog's educational program in its daily life
Adaptation of the educational protocol depending on the dog present,
Prediction of a behavior,
Analysis of the various motivations of the dog present,
Analysis of the present canine personality,
Analysis of the ability to communicate on both sides,
Analysis of the emotional state of the dog present,
Management and ability to measure the impact of our gestures based on the dog's responses,
Ability to gain the trust of the dog present to optimize its learning,
Practical exercises of what we must teach a dog on a daily basis (application of theory to practice),
Reception exercises, interview and educational program with clients and clients' dogs. Real cases
Informations complémentaires
Les formateur.trices référent.es
Catherine Collignon and Nicolas Ducasse
Lieu
Animal Center, Aurimont - Gers (32)
Dates
Dates pending for 2025
Duration
4 days - Number of hours: 28 hours
Schedules
9h - 17h30
Montant en auto-financement
560 €
Amount with request for support
610 €
Module 9
Theoretical and practical content
Practical and theoretical approach to the concept of socialization
Define what we mean by socialization
Primary and secondary socialization,
The criteria for optimizing socialization,
Possessiveness, a criterion to be taken into consideration on social responses,
Difference between communication and aggression,
What are the criteria to use to define whether a dog is poorly socialized?
Disadvantages Advantages of Puppy Classes
A class for whom? and why?
Play in dogs in the socialization process,
Reading and communication, personality analysis, management of natural predispositions,
Social responses in dogs: growling, barking, avoidance,
Is olfactory identification by contact a necessary and safe reality?
Organizing a group walk to optimize socialization
Educational walk: natural monitoring, management of a walk, introduction to education.
Additional information
The referent trainers
Catherine Collignon and Nicolas Ducasse
Place
Animal Center, Aurimont - Gers (32)
Dates
Dates pending for 2025
Duration
2.5 days - Number of hours: 17.5 hours
Schedules
1st day: 12 p.m. - 5 p.m. / Other days: 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Amount in self-financing
350 €
Amount with request for support
400 €
Request for quote or internship agreement
Online registration
30% for reservation: €105
Limited participation
10 participant.e.s - 1 chien/participant.e
Meals and accommodation
Not included
Camping pitch 15€/person/night
Prerequisites
Venir avec un chien