The Pet Professional Guild

11/18/2024

Upcoming PPG Webinar📣
'Make 2025 Your Most Productive Year Yet! – How to set goals, assign financial targets and get things done'
Your presenter: Niki Tudge, founder and President of The Pet Professional Guild, DogNostics Career Center, and The DogSmith
⏰December 12, 2024, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (ET)
Registration & details: https://www.petprofessionalguild.com/webinars-events/webinars/make-2025-your-most-productive-year-yet-how-to-set-goals-assign-financial-targets-and-get-things-done/
➡Whether you want to finally work on that credential, you have your eye on, start a fitness program, roll out a new service in your business, or just look more strategically at your next year’s goals, this is a webinar that will help you get it done!
🤓CEUs: PPAB 1, PMCT 1, CCPDT 1, KPA 1

11/18/2024

On-Demand Webinar: 'Reactive Dogs – The Science and Art of Set Ups and Use of Live Decoy Dogs to Achieve Success' - with Yvette Van Veen
Watch as soon as you register: https://www.petprofessionalguild.com/webinars-events/webinars/reactive-dogs-the-science-and-art-of-set-ups-and-use-of-live-decoy-dogs-to-achieve-success-with-yvette-van-veen/
CEUs: PPAB 1.5 IAABC 1.5 CPDT 1.5 PPG 1.5 KPA 1.5
➡️Learn how and when to use decoy dogs, including advanced set ups to address problems such as sudden environmental contrast.

11/17/2024

The Pet Professional Accreditation Board
Professionalizing the Pet Training Industry by Encouraging Trainers and Behavior Consultants to Demonstrate Competency
Get started today! https://www.petprofessionalguild.com/about-ppab/

11/17/2024

CELEBRATING LIFE TOGETHER!- Get Your Recordings Package!
😺Feline-Specific Sessions😺
You get access to the recordings for five feline-specific sessions for 12 months.
Full details and registration: https://www.petprofessionalguild.com/webinars-events/webinars/feline-celebrating-life-together-your-virtual-recorded-conference/

11/16/2024

CELEBRATING LIFE TOGETHER! -Get Your Recordings Package!
All Sessions- You get access to the recordings for all 67 sessions for 12 months.
Full details and registration here: https://www.petprofessionalguild.com/webinars-events/webinars/conference-package-for-celebrating-life-together-your-66-sessions/

11/15/2024

Join us for a discussion with Dr. Sarah Brown about her book "The Hidden Language of Cats"

11/15/2024

✨NEW POST in Pets and Their People!✨
How Your Dog Can Tell How You’re Feeling
"If you want your dog to respond to you, be happy and sound kind." -Don Hanson, co-owner of the Green Acres Kennel Shop
Read more here:

One of the most amazing things about dogs is how well they can read our emotions and know whether we’re happy, sad, anxious, or angry. I believe that many

11/14/2024

On-Demand Webinar: 'Learn How To Effectively Manage Groups of Dogs In an Off Leash Environment'
Presented by: Kathy Sdao
Watch as soon as you register: https://www.petprofessionalguild.com/webinars-events/webinars/learn-how-to-effectively-manage-groups-of-dogs-in-an-off-leash-environment/
🤓CEUs: IAABC 1.5, CPDT 1.5, KPA 1.5, PPAB 1.5
We’ll review some skills, protocols and behavioral knowledge that will help you keep dogs and handlers safe while promoting constructive canine socialization and fun.

11/14/2024

Upcoming PPG webinar: 'What Is A Companion Animal Death Doula and Why I Added It To My Behavior Practice'
Presented by: Kate LaSala of Rescued By Training
⏰December 4, 2024, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm (ET)
Details & registration: https://www.petprofessionalguild.com/webinars-events/webinars/what-is-a-companion-animal-death-doula-and-why-i-added-it-to-my-behavior-practice-with-kate-lasala/
Webinar Description:
Sharing your life with animals means saying goodbye to them. Kate will discuss what a companion animal death doula is, how she was moved to become one, and how she incorporates it into her behavior practice to support clients and raise awareness about grief and end-of-life preparedness.

11/13/2024

Listen as Niki Tudge chats and chuckles with Veronica Boutelle of dogbiz about the five steps to a thriving R+ training business on the PPG Podcast!

Join Niki Tudge as she chats and chuckles with Veronica Boutelle of dogbiz about the five steps to a thriving R+ training business!

11/12/2024

🌟Become a Certified Pet Care Professional!🌟
Whether you are a current or aspiring pet sitting, dog walking, or boarding or day care business owner, this program is for you.
Invest in your success today: https://www.petprofessionalguild.com/webinars-events/webinars/your-professional-pet-care-certification-program/
DogNostics Education's Professional Pet Care Certification course is a detailed and extensive online program of study that will provide you with the skills and knowledge you need to operate a professional pet care company.

11/12/2024

The goal of the PPG Assistance Animal Division is to bring awareness to the different functions and roles that animals play in assisting humans, with a special focus on the humane treatment and welfare of people and assistance animals.
Resources:https://www.petprofessionalguild.com/divisions/assistance-animal-division/north-america-resources/

11/10/2024

Pet Professional Accreditation Board
Professionalizing the Pet Training Industry by Encouraging Trainers and Behavior Consultants to Demonstrate Competency
Get started today! https://www.petprofessionalguild.com/about-ppab/

11/09/2024

✨Free PPG Member Monthly Webinar - November 2024
'Welcome Home: Setting Your New Dog Up For Success'
Your presenter: Kris Hale of Best In Dog, LLC
On Demand – Watch On Your Schedule: https://www.petprofessionalguild.com/webinars-events/webinars/welcome-home-setting-your-new-dog-up-for-success-with-kris-hale/
🤓CEUs: PPAB 1, PMCT 1, CCPDT 1, KPA 1
⏰November 1, 2024 - November 30, 2024
Webinar Description:
✔️My goal with this webinar is to support dog guardians, including adopters and fosters, as they welcome a new dog into their home.
✔️This webinar will focus on the role of decompression, management, reinforcement, and enrichment in setting dogs up for success in their new home.
✔️Shelter and rescue staff, as well as trainers working with fosters and adopters, will benefit as well.
✔️I hope to keep dogs in homes with successful adoptions, to create happy families with thriving dogs.
Members use the code found in your PPG Membership Area. Not a PPG member yet? Join today!

11/09/2024

The Pet Professional Guild

Come and join a community of support.

Professional Membership Benefits
When you join the Pet Professional Guild (PPG) as a professional member, you enjoy proud affiliation with the only international membership association for pet professionals who subscribe to the view that aversive methods should never be used—or even deemed necessary—in the training, care or behavior modification of any animal. PPG is a prestigious, recognized membership organization with international reach throughout North America, Europe, Australia and Southern Africa. It is an organization that stands up for what you believe in and backs it up with the latest scientific research, peer-reviewed studies and ongoing advocacy initiatives.
You join an organization of like-minded professionals where all members agree to abide by PPG’s Guiding Principles and Code of Ethical Conduct. https://www.petprofessionalguild.com/

11/08/2024

Upcoming PPG Webinar📣
'Make 2025 Your Most Productive Year Yet! – How to set goals, assign financial targets and get things done'
Your presenter: Niki Tudge, founder and President of The Pet Professional Guild, DogNostics Career Center, and The DogSmith
⏰December 12, 2024, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (ET)
Registration & details: https://www.petprofessionalguild.com/webinars-events/webinars/make-2025-your-most-productive-year-yet-how-to-set-goals-assign-financial-targets-and-get-things-done/
➡Whether you want to finally work on that credential, you have your eye on, start a fitness program, roll out a new service in your business, or just look more strategically at your next year’s goals, this is a webinar that will help you get it done!
🤓CEUs: PPAB 1, PMCT 1, CCPDT 1, KPA 1

11/07/2024

On-Demand Webinar: 'Learn How To Effectively Manage Groups of Dogs In an Off Leash Environment' - Presented by Kathy Sdao
Watch as soon as you register: https://www.petprofessionalguild.com/webinars-events/webinars/learn-how-to-effectively-manage-groups-of-dogs-in-an-off-leash-environment/
🤓CEUs: IAABC 1.5, CPDT 1.5, KPA 1.5, PPAB 1.5
☑️We’ll review some skills, protocols and behavioral knowledge that will help you keep dogs and handlers safe while promoting constructive canine socialization and fun.