Elevate Your Exotic Pet Care Skills
Are you an exotic pet owner or animal boarder eager to improve your pet care expertise? This short, interactive course is designed to teach you the fundamentals of animal enrichment and training, equipping you with practical strategies to enhance your pet’s physical and mental well-being. Perfect for both beginners and intermediate learners, this course will help you create stimulating environments that support your exotic animal’s health and happiness.
Who Is This Course For?
This course is ideal for:
- Exotic pet owners seeking to provide the best care for their animals.
- Animal boarders looking to expand their expertise in pet training and welfare.
- Anyone passionate about animal welfare and improving the lives of exotic pets.
Why Choose This Course?
- Learn from experts: Gain professional insights from a specialist tutor with experience in animal welfare and training.
- Practical benefits: Discover how enrichment and training improve animal behaviour, reduce stress, and enhance their quality of life.
- Flexible Learning: Access the course from the comfort of your home via Microsoft Teams.
- Certificate of Participation: Showcase your commitment to excellent pet care by earning a certificate to add to your credentials.
What you'll learn
This short course is largely theoretical in nature and introduces essential concepts of enrichment and training, how enrichment and training can benefit you as caregivers, and how to evaluate its effectiveness once implemented. You’ll be given the opportunity to develop transferable skills including creative thinking, application of knowledge, analysis and evaluation in the context of animal welfare.
This course explores the core concepts of animal enrichment and training tailored to exotic pets, covering:
- strategies for creating effective enrichment programmes
- techniques to enhance physical and cognitive well-being
- benefits of enrichment for both pets and caregivers
- methods for evaluating the effectiveness of training programmes
How you'll learn and be assessed
- This short course is taught over 2 days (a week apart) from 9am-5pm.
- There are 12 live guided learning hours in total (with incremental breaks) which are taught by a specialist tutor.
- This is an online course and will be taught via Microsoft Teams.
- A variety of teaching and learning strategies are employed throughout this course and will include interactive tutor-led lectures and group discussions.
- There is no summative assessment for this course. You will receive a certificate of participation and become part of our alumni community.
- You’ll leave with the confidence and skills to design engaging enrichment activities that promote your pet’s natural instincts and happiness.
Progression
After completing this course, you’ll receive a Certificate of Participation and become part of our alumni community. For those ready to advance their skills, we also offer an advanced course in animal enrichment and training.
Entry requirements
There are no formal entry requirements, but you will need access to a laptop/computer device with a reliable WIFI connection. This is an online course and can be accessed remotely via Microsoft Teams.
