What is a good career path for a wannabe dog trainer?
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Question: What is a good career path for a wannabe dog trainer?
This is directed specifically to people that train dogs for a living, whether it’s basic puppy compliance or competition agility or sheep herding or showing or whatever – the important thing is that a major source of your income actually involves working with dogs, because I can Google (or am I supposed to state “yahoo” here?) generic information myself.
Starting from training my own dogs as a hobby, reading a ton of books (I’m a huge Patricia McConnell and Monks of New Skete fan) and magazines, watching videos and seminars, and participating in lists on the internet, where do I go next for actual work?
Answer with your story and real life experience. What did you do, how did you get to where you are? What worked and didn’t work? What would you do differently if you started over again? Are there particular sources of information you prefer? Do you make enough money training, or do you do other things to supplement?
Thanks in advance for your insightful, real world responses.
Thanks for the response lizzy. I’ve seen other dog trainer questions around these parts and there is much bashing of “trainers” that work at Petco and Petsmart. To the trainer community in general, would it be acceptable to state that maybe it’s not the best place to get your own dog trained, but it’s a good place to acquire some experience yourself? Or is working there also somehow subpar? In terms of companies that are actually hiring, those two are always up there.
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Answer by princess
well you know that 2 be a dog tranier a good path is 2 go 2 school and get a degree well.. thats what i state now what is your oppinion???
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