The PetCenterEd program will span six months to give students the appropriate time to acquire sufficient knowledge and develop technical skills contrasted with the existing norm, of having a pet's needs addressed by either someone working with scissor and electric clippers after only a few months, or who considers painful aversive devices such as shock collars a good idea for basic training. Students will attend lectures on foundational theory and concepts and learn the hands on application of these theories and concepts as they relate to animal welfare and care in the same facility.
What that means is that the doggy day care at PetCenterEd will be attended to by enough learners to understand how human body language affects dogs along with learning dog body language and how to manage that while safely monitoring and interacting with all dogs. It means that groomers in training will learn canine relaxation message techniques and low stress, force free methods for working with dogs who have had negative grooming experiences. It means that handlers in the cat center will learn force free, low stress approaches specifically for caring for cats. And that all learners, including future trainers, get to learn how animals learn and how science shows us that force free methods are the most effective ones when it comes to results.
There are an estimated 1.1 million cats and dogs in New York City alone. Spending on pet care services is 1.5 billion dollars per year in this city. Spending on science based welfare focused training and services for people and pets is invaluable.
PetCenterEd will also be offering humane education in city elementary school classrooms to further our mission of education for people and pets. Interested? Contact us for details.
PetCenterEd, Inc. has a racially nondiscriminatory policy towards students, the school admits students of any race to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school and the school does not discriminate on the basis of race in administering its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs (if any), and athletic or other school-administered programs.
