The Dog Behavioural Curriculum Breakdown offers a comprehensive approach to understanding and managing canine behavior. The course begins with an introduction to canine behavior, providing learners with a solid foundation in the natural instincts, learning patterns, and the psychology behind dogs’ actions. Understanding how dogs communicate is critical for effective training, and the course delves into canine communication behavior, helping learners interpret the signals their dogs are sending through body language, vocalizations, and other cues.

The course also explores the development of behavior, highlighting how dogs’ behaviors evolve over time and the factors that influence these changes, such as age, environment, and socialization. Disruptive behavior is addressed in detail, helping dog owners and trainers recognize and understand the root causes of unwanted actions like barking, chewing, or aggression. The course provides practical solutions for eliminating these behavioral problems, with step-by-step strategies to guide learners through modifying undesirable behaviors.

Canine cognition is another focal point of the course, exploring how dogs process information, learn, and make decisions. This module provides valuable insights into how dogs think, which is essential for designing effective training techniques. The course also covers the emotional behavior of dogs, discussing how emotions like fear, anxiety, and excitement influence a dog’s actions and how to manage these emotions for improved behavior. The development of behavior is revisited in the final module, where learners will gain a deeper understanding of how behavior changes throughout a dog’s life and how to adapt training strategies accordingly.