Yeah, your cat-girl here is studying to be a dog trainer now 8)
After years and years of taking care of animals, both mine and rescues, I’m finally gonna start doing it professionally. Dogs and cats are my specialty for now, I wanna add ferrets and horses later on but one species of animal at a time XD
I just got my 1st certificate from Ian Dunbar’s academy a couple of days ago and am doing some more specialised courses there now. The basic course covered dog behaviour problems (prevention and treatment), puppy training and adult dog training. I’m expanding now with a course on canine social and sexual behaviour - fascinating stuff! I did a quick course on cat behaviour there too, it was just the basics but I did have a couple of tiny holes to fill there and there’s a course in another academy on cat care and nutrition that I am eyeballing >.>
Nutrition is another thing I want to study this year, it is sooooo important and we mostly get it wrong with our pets. I’ve been researching it for years because of our rescue cats (ill kitty-cats need special care after all) and man, it is a night-and-day difference! Even the lowest quality of the right diet helps them recover so much faster and the kittens develop so much better :O
But now I am faced with an issue - I do not have a dog XD I have a 7 month old baby. Not even our cat is with us cuz the landlords don’t allow pets. And I’ll tell you something - no one is gonna take a dog trainer without a dog seriously. Just because I don’t have a dog at the time ppl often treat me as if I’ve never had dogs and act as dog-experts because they now have their 1st dog and they have read the doggy-forums and read on the breed x.X Yeah, I’ve had that breed, and I can tell you, you have ruined your dog, but you ain’t gonna listen, are you?
So we’re looking now for a way to move where we can have our pets with us and we’re thinking on what breed of dog to get. We’re both very specific on what we want as traits (wolf-looking, soft, not too fluffy, I want it with “a bad reputation” cuz that’s another thing - no one is impressed IG you can train a golden retriever or a collie, they are born in a sit-stay and reading a book on competitive obedience). And I do want a show dog cuz I want to train show dogs even though for now my specialty is gonna be pet dogs :3
And so on and so on, I can talk about dogs for years and not shut up XD I guess you can;t really tell from my art here, most of my characters are foxes, I don’t even have dog-characters, now that I think of it o.O But same is true of cats and I spent the last 6-7 years working with rescue cats exclusively and many ppl irl didn’t know cuz I don’t talk much about it, I just do it XD I only mention when I’m looking for ppl to adopt them but my friends already have pets (plural) so yeah, I don’t look there for new kitty-parents XD
Anyway, back to baby-care and lectures, off I go!
| Viewed: |
11 times |
| Added: |
2 years, 10 months ago
07 Jun 2021 08:15 CEST
|
|
|
