€29 Animal Psychology. Was €299.

Learn to deal with pets ‘bad’ habits

Of course pets are not ‘bad’ but they can sometimes make life difficult for themselves and for you with habits that don’t fit with our human lives. Learning what’s normal and what’s behind unusual or undesirable behaviour really helps to get to grips with it. In this course, you’ll also discover how to treat habits and reactions that are not good for your pet or for you, like:

• How to choose and locate a litter tray your kitty is happy to use.
• What to do if your dog growls to guard his food bowl.
• Recognising boredom and what you can do to help
• How to stop a dog jumping up on people
• Reducing separation anxiety in pets
• Tricks to reduce a fearful, habitual reaction to stimuli

Would you like to train your pet not to …

• Mark his territory?
• Chew furniture?
• Knock over children?
• Whine?
• Frighten the postman?
• Bite?

Do you work with pets? Or do you want to improve your life with your own furry friend?

Once you understand what’s normal for an animal and why pets behave as they do, you’ll find it easier to find a solution. It is possible to resolve or vastly reduce most disruptive behaviour. Don’t waste another day with an unhappy pet situation – start this course today and get back to that warm, fuzzy in-love-with-my-pet feeling.

We love our pets!

We choose to share our lives with pets because we love them! Once you’ve taken this pet psychology course you’ll know how to engage with pets so you share a long, happy life together.

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International Certification

All our courses are accredited by the International Council for Online Educational Standards - www.icoes.org - (accreditation number ICOES/00763/13/36). This gives our students assurance that our courses meet the highest standards for online education.

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Course Syllabus

Module 1: Domestication - how pets came in from the cold

• History to human engagement with pets
• Breeding
• Anthropomorphism (transferring human emotions & expectations to pets)
• Choosing your pet

Module 2: Normal dog behaviour - when your pet is being true to his nature

• Socialisation
• How older dogs change
• Understanding puppy behaviour
• Feeding time
• Habits like licking, digging & jumping

Module 3: If dogs could talk

• Dogs’ body language
• How they greet humans and other dogs
• How to recognise what signals play
• Different types of aggressive behaviour
• The hidden language in dogs’ smells/urine/faeces/sniffing
• Translating vocal language

Module 4: Calm the pack – fear, aggression and anxiety

• Aggression: territorial, protective, predatory, sexual, fearful and more
• Anxiety due to separation
• Fear

Module 5: How well do you know me? The colourful world of dogs’ antics explained

• Rolling over and rolling in poo!
• How dogs feel about your stroking, patting, 5.3 tummy tickles & ear scratching
• Circling and chasing tail
• Tail between legs
• Muzzle grabbing
• Eating grass

Module 6: Lose your mind to understand your dog’s

• Marking in inappropriate places
• Urination due to excitement and submission
• Unusual levels of barking
• Soiling your home 

Module 7: What is normal behaviour for a cat?

• Eating rituals - how and why they differ from dogs
• Important early lessons for kittens
• Understanding how older cats change
• Kneading
• Burying faeces

Module 8: A cat’s the only cat who knows where it’s at

• Body language – tails, whiskers, eyes & 8.2 ears, posture
• Instinctive activity
• Cat calls
• Bringing you their catch
• Napping & playing
• Grooming

Module 9: When you’ve had it with your cat – psychiatric challenges

• The ins and outs of litter trays - what works and doesn’t
• Why they soil where you don’t want them to
• How to deal with challenges
• Jumping up
• Shouting

Module 10: Cat on a griddle

• Likely reasons for aggression and how to recognise different kinds
• Desensitising
• Separation anxiety
• The impact of environmental stress

Module 11: Understanding rabbits

• Body language
• Rabbit noises
• Normal behaviour and what signals a problem
• Chewing
• Marking