Special Offers

Animal Behavior College is pleased to extend some great offers to you! These are available to anyone; you don’t have to be enrolled in our school to take advantage of these opportunities!

Discounted Rates on Pet Insurance
Advances in veterinary medicine can improve your pet’s quality of life. With coverage from Veterinary Pet Insurance (VPI), you can afford to spend even more healthy years with your pet! Animal Behavior College has partnered with VPI to offer dog trainers and pet owners alike a 5% discount on their premium each year for the lifetime of the pet. To take advantage of this opportunity, please click here.

Continuing Education Courses
Animal Behavior College is proud to provide supplementary Continuing Education Programs (CEPs) to dog training professionals or those who are interested in learning more about working with animals. Each CEP is jam-packed with remarkably valuable, up-to-date and relevant information that enhances one’s knowledge in the field of dog training. We are currently offering two CEP’s with others to come in the future!

Training Shelter Dogs
It is a sad fact that many dogs temporarily reside in shelters and rescues due to owner relinquishment. This devastating situation calls for immediate attention, and for that reason, ABC has created a greatly informative Continuing Education Program (CEP) that will assist animal lovers in helping homeless dogs to become more adoptable. This CEP consists of 250+ pages of material authored by Teoti Anderson, former president of the APDT, with contributions from Kelly Gorman-Dunbar and numerous members of the ABC staff. The wealth of information provided discuss everything from understanding the different kinds of shelters, how to approach them, identifying dogs for adoption and defensive handling, to temperament assessments, including some excellent information from the ASPCA MYM Safer Program. Furthermore, the Training Shelter Dogs CEP has been approved by the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers (CCPDT) for 8 CEU credits!

Every hour spent with a shelter dog makes a world of difference, and upon completion of the Training Shelter Dogs CEP, you will have the knowledge, skills, and drive to positively transform the lives of shelter dogs everywhere.

The Art of Selling and Teaching Private Lessons
Understanding how to expertly perform private dog training sessions is a crucial component of every professional dog trainer’s career. There are several reasons why learning how to offer quality private lessons is greatly beneficial to one’s training repertoire. This comprehensive Continuing Education Program (CEP), titled “The Art of Selling and Teaching Private Lessons,” is comprised of approximately 300 pages of highly-detailed, invaluable, critical information that every trainer should familiarize themselves with in regards to conducting private lessons. Authored by Teoti Anderson, former president of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT), this CEP will ameliorate your knowledge of proper private-lesson training and will instruct you on such imperative topics as sales techniques and tips, understanding communication styles, the different types of private training, developing effective training plans, how to teach off-leash behaviors, and how to achieve client compliance in order to maximize the successfulness of your training. Your knowledge of how to obtain clientele and conduct efficient private lessons will assist you in growing your business and maximizing its potential as you will have the ability to offer a plethora of training services to your clients aside from group classes.

Trade Shows
We are always excited to meet with our students, graduates, Mentor Trainers and animal lovers alike! Below is a list of the upcoming trade shows ABC will be attending. If you are in the area, please stop by and say hello. We look forward to seeing you!

January The Greater Philadelphia Pet Expo Philadelphia, PA January 14-16, 2011 February Groom and Kennel Expo Pasadena, CA February 10-13, 2011 Super Pet Expo Edison, NJ February 11-13, 2011 March No Events Currently Scheduled April Go Green Expo Los Angeles, CA April 15-17, 2011 America’s Family Pet Expo Costa Mesa, CA April 15-17, 2011 May Pet Expo USA Santa Clarita, CA TBD June No Events Currently Scheduled July No Events Currently Scheduled August Pet Expo USA Pomona, CA TBD September No Events Currently Scheduled October APDT Conference San Diego, CA October 12-16, 2011 November No Events Currently Scheduled December No Events Currently Scheduled