The online course, Enhancing the People/Pet Partnership, is directly related to the field of grooming. Whether we, as groomers, donate grooming time, or answer questions for clients on how to help new dog owners care for and bond with their pets, we are actively promoting pet welfare.
After enrolling in this course, I believe all prospective and newbie dog owners should be required to work through, and complete, this excellent program.
What's in the Program?
Lesson One begins with a short treatise on the importance of animals to human co-existance, whether those pets are therapy dogs, search and rescue hounds, animal helpers, war dogs or just our loving companions. Compassionate stories of animals saving lives, from pigs to birds and all pets in-between, are relayed.
Lesson Two offers the real meat of the course, with sections detailing these important concepts:
- Choosing, Commitment, and Common Sense
- Pet Safety
- Pet Care
- Vaccinations
- Recognizing Common Health Problems
- Pet Manners
- Emergencies and First Aid
Lessons Three and Four are the Dog Whisperer part...with sections on how to bond with, spend time with, and love your pet...and also how to ease the suffering of both of you when it's time to let your beloved friend pass over.
How You Can Help Teach Pet Owners
You can help people learn to better care for their new friends, too. You can take this course and/or recommend others do the same, or you can put a link to it in your salon newsletter - whether that newsletter is Web-based or paper.
If your newsletter is online, you can even earn extra cash by using an affiliate link (available free, whether you take the course or not).
A free course could be part of your New Puppy Grooming Package that includes a salon bandana, toothbrush, toothpaste, soft slicker brush and a year's worth of salon visits (got to train those dogs to handle being groomed, and train their owners to come in regularly).
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