Dog Trainer Courses

Want to Start a Career with Dogs?

Highland Canine Training offers a school and certification program that will teach you progressive and innovative methods of beginning your new dog training career. Whether you are interested in learning basic or advanced obedience training, behavior modification, police K-9 training, detection, search and rescue, competition obedience or sport dog training or even want to advance your skills for a dog related business that you already own, our courses are the best place to begin.

We offer various courses in the dog training industry so that you can learn as much as you would like. Our instructors can teach you proven techniques that will make your dog training career successful.

All of our Dog Trainer courses are held at our Corporate Headquarters in Harmony, NC. We are convenient to Charlotte, Statesville, Hickory, Greensboro, Winston-Salemand the Lake Norman, North Carolina area. We often host and gladly welcome students from out-of-state as well as international students from around the world at our on site facility. Call us locally at 704.728.9494 or toll-free at 866.200.2207 to start your dog training career today!

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Dog Obedience Training and Behavior Modification Programs

Basic Obedience Dog Trainer Application Course
4 Week Course - Teaches the student the proper techniques of teaching, correcting and proofing dogs for reliable on-leash obedience. This course includes practical hands on work with our instructors as well as classroom lecture and teaches you how to train such commands as sit, down, stay, come, heel and place with a variety of dog breeds.
$2,000 - Cost of course includes tuition, application fee, basic equipment and course materials.

Advanced Obedience Dog Trainer Application Course
4 Week Course - Teaches the student the proper techniques of teaching, correcting and proofing dogs for reliable off-leash obedience. This course includes practical hands on work with our instructors as well as classroom lecture. This course is recommended for students that have already completed the Basic Obedience Application course and want to continue their skills by teaching off leash obedience to dogs.
$2,200 - Cost of course includes tuition, application fee, basic equipment and course materials.

Canine Training and Behavior Modification Professional Course - Course Outline
6 Week Course - Teaches the student the proper techniques of teaching, correcting and proofing dogs for reliable on and off -leash obedience. This course also teaches the student how to deal with problem behaviors such as, housebreaking, aggression, fear biting, phobias, etc. This course includes practical hands on work with our instructors as well as classroom lecture. There are no prerequisites for this course. This is a great course for individuals who are looking to take an intensive trainer school to accent a pet related business that they may already have or to work for a dog training or other dog related business.
$3,000 - Cost of course includes tuition, application fee, basic equipment and course materials.

Canine Training and Behavior Modification Professional Course - Course Outline
8 Week Course - Teaches the student the proper techniques of teaching, correcting and proofing dogs for reliable on and off -leash obedience. This course also teaches the student how to deal with problem behaviors such as, housebreaking, aggression, fear biting, phobias, etc. This course includes practical hands on work with our instructors as well as classroom lecture. There are no prerequisites for this course. This is a great course for individuals who are looking to take a course that will give them more experience in working with and rehabilitating problem dogs. This course offers the student more training and handling with a variety of common dog problems.
$3,700 - Cost of course includes tuition, application fee, basic equipment and course materials.

Canine Training and Behavior Modification Professional Course - Course Outline
12 Week Course - Teaches the student the proper techniques of teaching, correcting and proofing dogs for reliable on and off -leash obedience. This course also teaches the student how to deal with problem behaviors such as, housebreaking, aggression, fear biting, phobias, etc. This course includes practical hands on work with our instructors as well as classroom lecture.There are no prerequisites for this course. This is a great course for individuals who are looking to take dog trainer course that will prepare them to open their own dog training or dog related business. This 12 week course gives the student the practical hands on training and interactions with dogs and clients that is required to be completely comfortable in dealing with a majority of common dog related problems. This course also has an emphasis on rehabilitating problem behaviors as well as training dogs for therapy work, service work and dog specialties, such as Rally-Obedience, Agility and competition obedience.
$4,900 - Cost of course includes tuition, application fee, basic equipment and course materials.

Working Dog Programs

Detection Canine Trainer Course - Course Outline
6 Week Course - Teaches the student the proper methods of selecting a detection prospect, as well as imprinting and training the detection dog for narcotics, explosives or human remains detection work. This course also covers canine case law pertinent to detection dogs, record keeping and report writing, maintenance training, proofing and problem solving for detection dogs.
$3,200 - Cost of course includes tuition, application fee, basic equipment and course materials.

Protection Canine Trainer Course - Course Outline
6 Week Course - Teaches the student the proper methods of selecting a protection dog prospect, as well as training the protection dog for competition, personal protection or police patrol work. This course also covers the skills to properly decoy protection dogs as well as covering such topics as drive development, protection competitions, targeting, grip, channeling. This course also gives the student the knowledge to conduct all of the necessary training for starting and finishing an effective protection dog such as, out/release, recall, bark and hold, carjacking and other scenario based exercises.
$3,200 - Cost of course includes tuition, application fee, basic equipment and course materials.

Police Canine Trainer / Instructor Course - Course Outline
6 Week Course - Teaches the student the proper methods of selecting a police dog prospect, as well as all areas of detection, obedience, agility and protection necessary for effective police patrol work. This course also covers such topics as k-9 record keeping, report writing, K-9 First aid and CPR, Tactical Building Searches, Proper decoy techniques and problem solving with police canines.
$4,100 - Cost of course includes tuition, application fee, basic equipment and course materials.

Police Canine Trainer / Instructor Course - Course Outline
8 Week Course - Teaches the student the proper methods of selecting a police dog prospect, as well as all areas of detection, obedience, agility and protection necessary for police patrol work. This course also covers such topics as k-9 record keeping, report writing, K-9 First aid and CPR, Tactical Building Searches, Proper decoy techniques and problem solving with police canines. This course also covers Advanced Detection and Interdiction Methods and Tactical Tracking.
$4,800 - Cost of course includes tuition, application fee, basic equipment and course materials.

Police Canine Trainer / Instructor Course - Course Outline
12 Week Course - Teaches the student the proper methods of selecting a police dog prospect, as well as all areas of detection, obedience, agility and protection necessary for police patrol work.This course also covers such topics as k-9 record keeping, report writing, K-9 First aid and CPR, Tactical Building Searches, Proper decoy techniques and problem solving with police canines. This course also covers Advanced Detection and Interdiction Methods, Tactical Tracking, K-9 Unit Selection, Management and Supervision and Basic Police K-9 and SWAT Applications.
$6,000 - Cost of course includes tuition, application fee, basic equipment and course materials.

Search and Rescue Dog Trainer Course - Course Outline
6 Week Course - Teaches the student the proper methods of selecting a search and rescue dog prospect, as well as all areas of training and maintaining a search and rescue dog. This course includes one specialty area, i.e. Scent Discrimination Trailing, Human Remains Detection, Urban Search and Rescue (Disaster), Wilderness Search and Rescue, etc. Additional specialty areas are available for $800. This course also teaches areas such as Record Keeping and report writing, K9 First aid and CPR, Search Strategies, Search and Rescue Fundamentals, and much more. There is no prerequisite for this Search and Rescue Dog Trainer Course.
$2,800 - Cost of course includes tuition, application fee, basic equipment and course materials.

Housing and Training

On-site housing during our courses is available for $100 per week. Our 1900 square foot on-site housing facilities have a full kitchen with stove, microwave and refrigerator. Our facility also has satellite televisions, alarm clocks, telephone, wireless internet access, laundry and seperate sleeping quarters for males and females. If you plan on staying at our on-site housing, you are required to make a non-refundable housing deposit in order to secure your housing during the course. Contact us for more details.

Students are allowed to bring up to two (2) personal dogs for training while attending any of our dog training courses. There are no additional boarding fees required if you decide to bring your dogs and your dogs will be allowed to stay with you. You will have an opportunity to train with your dogs while attending any of our courses and they are integrated into the learning experience. If you do not have a dog to bring during our courses, don't worry, we have dogs available for you to work with during your class. Our obedience and behavior modification students often have the opportunity to work with dogs from our Second Chance Program.

Free follow-up training is included with the cost of any of our training programs. We can also customize programs to fit your specific needs.

Airport pick-up and return is provided for out-of-state and international students. Transportation is also provided for those attending our dog training school. Our facility is minutes away from several supermarkets, restaurants and shopping malls.

Registration

Our trainers courses start on a Semester system to fit your schedule and our class sizes are generally small to give students individualized attention and one-on one instruction with our staff of experienced and certified trainers. Our courses will often fill several months in advance and space is limited. Registration is taken on a first come, first serve basis from those applicants who submit a Trainers Course Application and a course deposit. Our trainers courses begin on the first Monday of January (Winter semester), April (Spring semester), July (Summer semester) and October (Fall semester).

If you have questions about our courses or need further information, please feel free to call us at 866.200.2207 or email us. You can download an application for our courses online by clicking here.

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