Course Overview
Conifer Canine’s Dog Trainer College offers you the training to become a confident, competent and effective dog trainer. Our Master Trainer certification course online combines the skills and techniques of other courses You will also learn integrative business marketing techniques and management skills needed to promote your canine business because the more training you have, the more services you can offer which equates to increased earning potential.
This course is designed for those who desire to train a variety of skills and therefore increase income potential. The amount of dog trainer information packed into this course is astounding! Students will have up to a year to complete the course. Students will need a willing body to lay tracks/trails for you as you train in K9 Instructor module. The course includes four modules, taken in this order: Behavior/Obedience, K9 Instructor, Service Dog Trainer, and Cadaver Detection.
When a student applies/pays for the Master Trainer online course, he/she saves over $2,500 compared to taking each segment individually. The online learning module permits students to save money on tuition, travel, lodging. This self-paced course explores the advanced skills needed to effectively train a wide array of dogs in a variety of settings. It includes the same information contained within our on-site Master Trainer course. Once your user account is created, there are no refunds.
The Master Trainer course does require two weeks (10 days, M-F) of training in-person at our Training Center near Spencer, IN. This is to take place after all four modules have been completed. The student should plan on fulfilling this requirement in (at least) one-week phases; two weeks at once is even better. This gives the student continuity that will help to solidify the skills learned as well as provide Instructor oversight and honing of the students abilities. The student will be involved in hands-on training, review of the 4 modules, taking the Final Exam, and Practical testing for the Master Trainer certification. More info by clicking here.
Please note: All students in this course will be involved as a decoy, helper, and handler. This will include bite-work with dogs in real-life settings. While safety measures will be in place, injury and/or death is a possibility. Those who are unwilling to be involved in this element of training should not apply to the K9 Instructor course.
***Students in our courses (especially the online versions) should be able to think, problem-solve, and strategize. Our courses are collegiate-level, not spoon-fed. If you’re not up to this level (physically and mentally), think twice before applying.***
Master Trainer Online Courses are Available Year Round
The Master Trainer course does require two weeks (10 days, M-F) of training in-person at our Training Center near Spencer, IN.
This is to take place after all four modules have been completed.
Tuition is $9,995. You won’t find this price for any other Master Trainer course out there!
What You Will Learn
- Learn how to work with the dog – not against him; bringing out the best in the dog
- Understand the concepts behind efficient training and the fundamentals of conditioning
- Create your own website that will attract visitors and establish business credibility
- Train a variety of dogs with a variety of needs using a variety of tools in a variety of ways
- Diagnose training problems and formulate a plan to overcome them
- Manage a kennel operation in a clean, healthy setting
- Grasp the proper (and improper) use of dog training aids
- Understand the importance of socializing puppies
- House-train dogs/puppies in the best way/s possible
- Use social media as a means of marketing your brand/product
- Know how a dog “pack” works
- Realize the need for socialization and how to be thorough in socializing puppies/dogs
- Be able to train dogs in both basic and advanced obedience
- Recognize canine anatomy
- Identify canine behaviors and signals
- Understand and implement canine ethology
- Diagnose different kinds of canine aggression
- Establish the foundation for beginning your own dog training business
- Recognize a variety of breeds and their inherent differences
- Understand the nutritional needs of the canine and how best to meet them
- Recognize health issues of the canine and be able to administer emergency first aid
- Understand how Search Engine Optimization works and what can be done to improve yours
- Learn many of the situations faced by service dog handlers in public
- Be familiar with medical alert service dogs
- Train hearing assistance (signal) dogs
- Grasp mobility dogs training
- Have at least of basic understanding of autism
- Train autism assistance dogs
- Train PTSD seizure alert dogs
- Learn how to socialize the service dog
- Familiarize yourself with the service dog in a public setting
- Identify training problems and learn how to solve them
- Taking service dogs into schools and workplace
- Be familiar with MST and TBI assistance
- Apply a solid application process with prospective clients
- Develop an effective delivery process to clients
- Instruct handlers, K9 supervisors, and the K9
- Handle tracking/trailing dogs dependably
- Recognize canine behavior on the track
- Engage and neutralize a suspect
- Recognize inferior qualities that would hinder reliable K9 work
- Understand how genetics, upbringing, and training technique will influence the final product
- Recognize the variety of equipment used in K9 training
- Utilize equipment effectively, properly, and safely
- Learn how to be a great decoy (helper, agitator)
- Teach tracking/trailing searches in various environments
- Utilize patrol containment techniques
- Conduct SWAT operations with the K9
- Utilize various advertising and marketing options
- Be able to effectively answer your client’s questions
- Realize the many kinds of training that you may consider offering to your clients
- Understand methods for Search and Rescue
- Teach the SAR re-find
- Handle dogs in both Urban and Wilderness SAR
- Grasp how to maintain SAR dogs
- Select solid candidates for Police K9 prospects
- Understand how to train the detection dog from start to finish
- Enhance the dog’s drives
- Conduct practical agility
- Possess a broad working knowledge of service dogs
- Be familiar with the equipment used in training service dogs
- Understand how to select dogs and puppies for service dogs
- Install and operate a productive puppy program
- Learn how to interact with disabled handlers
- Learn how the delivery process works
- Be able to train dogs, handlers and families
- Be able to train trailing dogs
- Understand Osphresiology and how it affects the search
- Implement scent discrimination trailing
- Be able to problem solve trailing training
- Train the Touch command
- Be familiar with the ADA
- Learn public access laws
- Understand service dog etiquette
- Understand tethering
- Be familiar with the public’s perception of service dogs
- Understand the need for real-life training and certifications
- Select solid candidates for HRD dog prospects
- Recognizing and teaching the canine’s cadaver alert
- Understand the use of various cadaver training aids
- Utilize cadaver training aids effectively, properly, safely, and without contamination
- Grasp the canine olfactory system
- Comprehend how environment will affect the search
- Understand scent theory
- Grasp basic human decomposition
- Comprehend case law that affects cadaver dog searches
- Utilize various cadaver detection training methods
- Understand how to dependably proof a dog
- Develop a thorough search pattern
- Diagnose training problems and formulate a plan to overcome them
- Be able to conduct both land and water searches
- Select solid candidates for detection dog prospects
- Understand how to train the detection dog from start to finish
- Understand the use of various detection training aids
- Comprehend case law that affects canine searches
- Recognize inferior qualities that would hinder reliable detection work
- Handle the dog in way that will encourage effectiveness yet without hindering his work
- Imprint a dog on the target odor
- Utilize various detection training methods
- Diagnose the right method to use with each individual dog
- Employ effective search methods and technique
Curriculum Outline
This course is designed for those who desire to train a variety of skills and therefore increase income potential.
The amount of dog trainer information packed into this course is astounding! Students will have up to a year to complete the course.
The course includes four modules, taken in this order: Behavior/Obedience, K9 Instructor, Service Dog Trainer, and Cadaver Detection.
- Conditioning
- Phases of Training
- Correction vs. Reward
- Basic and Advanced
- Directions from a Distance
- Correct Use of a Prong collar
- Correct Use of a Remote collar
- History of Dog Training
- Clicker Training
- Baiting/Luring
- Puppies
- Housetraining
- Socialization
- Canine Anatomy
- Analysis
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Breed Awareness
- Dog-to-Human Aggression
- Dog-to-Dog Aggression
- Canine Communication
- Nutrition
- Canine CPR
- Canine First Aid
- Kennel Management
- Website construction
- Search Engine Optimization
- Social Media
- Advertising and Marketing
- Selecting prospects for SAR
- SAR Drive Development
- SAR Training Equipment
- Confidence Development
- The Trailing Dog
- Osphresiology
- Narcotics and Explosives Detection
- Cadaver Case Law
- Maintaining Cadaver Dogs
- Record Keeping
- Puppy
- Adult
- Puppy development
- Prey Drive
- Hunting Ability
- Basic Human Decomposition
- Imprinting
- Search Methods
- Teaching the Alert
- Proofing
- Problem Solving
- Land Cadaver Dogs
- Water Cadaver Dogs
- Imprinting Target Odor
- Simple Direct Association
- Deferred Response
- Other Detection Training Methods
- Search Methods
- Vehicle Searches
- Building Searches
- Teaching the Alert
- Problem Solving & Proofing
- Prospects
- Puppy
- Adult
- Testing necessary drives
- Case law
- Tactical Insertions
- Search & Seizure
- History of K9 training
- Real-life Scenario training
- Puppy
- Adult
- Testing necessary drives
- Puppy
- Prey
- Defense
- Hunting Ability
- Bite Sleeves
- Bite Suit
- Remote Collar
- Proper Handling Techniques
- Agitation
- Working the Grip
- Target Biting
- Channeling Drives
- Scent Theory
- Variable Surface Trailing
- Scent Discrimination Trailing
- The Bark Alert
- Problem Solving
- Patrol Containment Techniques
- Building Searches
- Open Area Searches
- K9 Swat Integration
- Problem Solving
- Puppy Program
- Signal Dogs
- Mobility Dogs
- Autism Assistance
- PTSD Assistance
- Traumatic Brain Injury Assistance
- Military Sexual Trauma Assistance
- Seizure alert and Assistance
- Therapy Dogs
- Emotional Support Dogs
- Service Dog Training
- Service Dog Equipment
- Service Dog Etiquette
Selection of Service Dogs
- Puppy
- Adult
- Delivering the Service Dog
- Handler & Family Training
- Public Access
- Interrogations
- Travel
- Puppy Conditioning
- Public Settings
- Schools
