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Old 09-29-2005, 06:35 PM   #4 (permalink)
Malinois
 
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Are you interested in becoming an obedience trainer? a detector dog trainer? a hunting dog trainer? seeing eye dog? service dog? police dog?

All of them are essentially sales based positions, so the income is variable.

As far as becoming a dog trainer, there isn't any test you have to pass to call yourself one. Many people just read a few books, go print off some buisness cards, and call themselves a dog trainer. Not surprisingly there are a lot of people who call themselves dog trainers who have no buisness doing so.

Some people apprentice to someone who already is a dog trainer. Learn from them and work for them for a while and have them teach you how to train dogs.

There are also some schools that will teach you about training dogs. However most of them just don't give a good understanding of dogs and just have you 'graduate' after you've attended for the required number of weeks.

If you'd like some specific information, feel free to PM me and I can try to help you.
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