Pet Care - Endorsed Certificate Course (TQUK - Training Qualifications UK)

Pet Care Online Course.100 Hours Endorsed Certificate Course (TQUK - Training Qualifications UK).

Understand and learn how to care and bring out the best in your pets with this home study pet care course. This distance learning pet care course is ideal for those working in pet shops, specialising in breeding, animal lovers or anyone working with pets.

The course will help you develop an understanding of how to care for a wide variety of different pets including dogs, cats, fish, birds, rabbits, rodents, reptiles and amphibians. You can start this home study pet care course at any time and finish at your own convenience with unlimited tutor support.

Completing this course will give you a sound introduction to caring for a wide variety of different pets, whether they have legs or wings, scales or fins. Understanding your pet’s needs is paramount to their wellbeing. This course will give you the tools to achieve this.

This course has been developed by experts who are highly qualified and experienced professionals. These include Veterinary Surgeons, a former wildlife park manager, and university lecturers.

If you are an animal lover and wish to work with domestic animals or in the pet care industry, this course is an ideal place to begin.

Benefits of an ADL Endorsed Course?

Endorsed courses are skills based. They have been evaluated and approved by an independent awarding body such as Training Qualifications UK (TQUK).

What makes ADL’s Endorsed courses different?

• Flexible Self-Paced Learning– adjust your learning around your home and work commitments
• Start and Finish at any time
• Courses globally and industry relevant
• Practical Component at the end of most lessons.

Allocated your own tutor relevant to your subject. You can have as little or as much contact as you like with your tutor. They are there to support you all the way through.

This course is endorsed by TQUK -Training Qualifications UK, an OFQUAL awarding body.

Lesson Structure: Pet Care AAG100

There are 8 lessons:

1. Introduction to Animal Care
   • Laws and licenses
   • Animal Charities and Societies (eg. RSPCA, WSPA, Blue Cross)
   • Pet Care Needs (Feeding, Watering, Shelter, Containment, Fencing, Caging, Protection)
   • Maintaining Health
   • Hygiene
2. Cats
   • Breeds (Long Haired, Semi Long Haired, Short Haired, Oriental etc)
   • Selection
   • Allergies
   • Containment
   • Sexing
   • Desexing
   • Breeding
   • Newborn Kittens
   • Exercise
   • Behaviour
   • Hygiene
   • Feed and nutrition
   • Amount of food, Watering
   • Grooming
   • Traveling
   • Care for a sick cat (Signs of illness, Temperature, Common ailments, Skin disorders, Ticks)
   • Cats and wildlife
3. Dogs
   • Selection
   • Breeds (Pure and mixed)
   • Varying size and temperament
   • Grooming
   • Skin care
   • Inherited traits (aggression, deafness)
   • Containment
   • Breeding
   • Desexing
   • Exercise
   • Behaviour
   • Feeding
   • Canine Nutrition
   • Bones
   • Watering
   • Training
   • Travelling
   • Identifying sickness
4. Birds
   • Selection, Breeds (eg. Canaries, Finches, Budgerigars, Small Parrots etc)
   • Sexing
   • Desexing
   • Containment (Aviaries, selection, design, size, management)
   • Feed
   • Feeding
   • Watering
   • Grooming (Wing trim, Beak Trim, Nail Trim)
   • Hygiene
   • Catching and Restraining
   • Travelling
   • Caring for the Sick Bird
   • Signs of illness
   • Temperature
   • Supportive therapy
   • Common Ailments (eg. Abscesses, Alopecia, Apoplexy, Aspergillosis, Breathlessness, Constipation, Parasites)
   • Safety in the Home
5. Fish
   • Selection
   • Inside or Outside
   • Warm or Cold water
   • Number of fish
   • Types of fish (Tropical, Marine, Cold Water)
   • Costs, Size, Equipment
   • Tanks, Ponds, Pumps, Aquariums, Night lights
   • Water quality
   • Changing Water
   • Feed (Pelleted, Live feed, Daphnia, Brine Shrimp)
   • Illnesses (Fungal, Bacterial, Parasites, Environmental)
6. Rabbits
   • Breeds (Large, Small and Dwarf)
   • Selection
   • Legality (Illegal in some areas)
   • Containment (Hutch or Cage)
   • Environment (temperature etc)
   • Feeding and Nutrition
   • Watering
   • Feed quantities and routine
   • Grooming and Handling
   • Moulting
   • Transporting
   • Sexing
   • Breeding
   • Identifying illness
   • Care of sick rabbits
7. Reptiles and Amphibians
   • Types (eg. Salamander, Frogs, Venomous snakes, Non-venomous snakes, Shingle-backed lizard, Tortoises, Terrapins, Axolotls, etc)
   • Selection
   • Legal Issues
   • Housing
   • Environmental requirements (Moisture, Humidity, Warmth, etc)
   • Terrariums
   • Problems (eg. Dehydration, Stress, External and internal parasites, Blisters, Scale Rot, Mouth Rot or Canker, Colds/pneumonia, Constipation and diarrhea, Cannibalism,Incomplete sloughing of the skin -shedding of the skin)
   • Feed and feeding
   • General Care
8. Rodents, Guinea Pigs, Hamsters, Mice
   • Varieties
   • Selection
   • Containment
   • Sexing
   • Breeding
   • Grooming
   • Feeding
   • Watering
   • Illness (eg. Skin Problems, Abscesses, Mites, Ringworm, Fleas, Respiratory Infection, Vitamin C Deficiency, Otitis, Salmonella, Stripping etc)

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the academy, marked by the academy's tutors and returned to you with feedback, any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Animal lovers, Farmers, Animal Breeders

A pc or laptop with internet connection.

An excellent starting point for working with animals in any situation (farms, pets, zoos, wildlife, animal protection). Learn at your own pace through distance learning. It is also an excellent vocational pathway towards employment in the Veterinary industry.

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