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Assistant Dog Trainer - Please read description for details
ORGANIZATION: FOUR PAWS TO FREEDOM
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1 person is interested
This is an opportunity for someone who wishes to become a professional dog trainer. You will be assisting in the dog training classes and learning what it takes to train dogs for a living. To be on our training team, you will need to enjoy working with people as well as dogs.
Our training classes (Service Dog and Companion dog)meet all over the Sacramento Region and you will be required to travel to at least 3 of them. We have classes in Roseville, Sacramento, Beale AFB, Placerville, and Rancho Cordova. We train dogs 6 days a week. We would like our Volunteer Assistant Trainers to attend at least 3 classes each week on a regular basis.
Primary duties will include:
- Take chairs to or set up chairs in the training areas
- Set up for classes -tables, training equipment
- Write receipts for class payments
- Cleans and fill water bowls daily or as needed
- Assists students with exercises when directed to do so
- Demonstrates training techniques and skills when directed to do so
- Assist with canine temperament evaluations
- Vacuum, mop sweep before or after class
- Put away chairs
More opportunities with FOUR PAWS TO FREEDOM
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About FOUR PAWS TO FREEDOM
Location:
2376 Zinfandel Drive, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670, US
Mission Statement
Helping people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder heal through the use of service dogs.
Description
4 Paws 2 Freedom helps people who have survived a severe trauma, such as combat veterans and first responders, regain their independence and purpose in life.
People who have been exposed to a traumatic event or events can develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which can prevent them from living a normal life. The symptoms can lead to the inability to leave the home as well as suicide. Most of our students are veterans of war. Service dogs can help in many ways. They can be trained to provide a buffer zone between their human and others, recognize repetitive motions, alert to the approach of someone from behind, guide their human to a safe place, turn on lights in a dark room and interrupt nightmares, along with many other vital tasks.
It is extremely important that our students bond with their puppy or dog. That is why our students take their puppy or dog through the entire training process from start to completion as a Certified Service Dog Team. We use positive motivational training techniques to secure a loving partnership between human and canine.
Our newest project has us placing comfort dogs into public safety agencies like Fire Stations and Police Departments.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
2376 Zinfandel DriveRancho Cordova, CA 95670
DATE POSTED
May 25, 2019
SKILLS
- Animal Care / Handling
- Animal Therapy
- Critical Thinking
- Multi-Tasking
- People Skills
- Verbal / Written Communication
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- minimum 6 hours per week on regularly scheduled days and times. Opportunities to work at events and fundraisers
- Must have reliable transportation; desire to learn to train service dogs, pet dogs and other working dogs; be physically capable of light manual work, being on feet for long periods of time, bending, stretching reaching and handling large dogs.