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Kennel Assistant Course
This Kennel Assistant course has been designed for anyone wanting to pursue a career working with dogs in a rescue or boarding kennels.

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Kennel Assistant Course
This Kennel Assistant course has been designed for anyone wanting to pursue a career working with dogs in a rescue or boarding kennels.
Gain an understanding of canine welfare and how to clean, feed and care of dogs.
Crucially, it also contains information on how to ensure the mental and emotional well being of dogs in order to minimise the stressful environment of confinement.
This course includes a 1 or 2 week optional practical at an animal welfare charity in Gloucestershire.
Canine Care – Basic Needs
Understand the basic needs of canines and how to respond to them. This module covers the 5 Freedoms and how they are put into action when caring properly for dogs. Learn about nutrition and how foods must meet the needs the dog and gain an understanding the emotional needs of the dog.
Health of the Dog 1 - Grooming and First Aid
Canine health is introduced by describing and explaining the need for grooming. Canine health moves on to First Aid for dogs by putting together an appropriate First Aid Kit and being able to recognise and treat a range of emergencies.
Health & Well Being of the Rescued Dog
Rescue dogs present a range of issues that tend not be found in the well cared for companion dog. Some of the module content is drawn from people working at canine and animal rescue centres including the health and safety of all concerned.
Health & well-being of the rescued dog is developed from Module 2 so that you can learn about signs of abuse including emotional damage as well as a guide which describes how to deal with a newly-rescued dog and their immediate needs.
Health of the Dog 2 - Preventing Disease
Learn about general signs of good health & ill-health and more about disease, the causes of animal disease and how to prevent the spread of disease in kennel accommodation.
Hygiene is emphasised in this module as well as maintain kennel accommodation to the standards required by Local Authorities & the general public.
Understand how to meet a dog’s emotional needs by gaining an understanding of the the origins & causes of aggression. Learn to identify and recognise how aggressive behaviour differs between dog breeds.
Understand the safety measures & precautions in