Learn a rewarding and fulfilling career helping animals and people

Become a dog trainer.

Learn from expert dog and people trainer Pamela Chandler how to succeed as a dog trainer with pragmatic and easy to learn hands-on skills that help both pups and their owners to have a mutually respectful and rewarding relationship.
Level 1 Certification

The Foundation

Learn all the essentials of life stages, dog breeds, body language, and different learning modalities to develop an expert knowledge base for becoming a dog trainer.  Pamela has distilled her twenty year career in dog rescue and training work with thousands of behavioral needs dogs and committed pet owners into an easy to learn set of lessons and education plan.   
  • 100+ training videos
  • 22 Lesson Plans and Assessments
  • Study Guides
  • ADTK - Academy Dog Training Knowledge Certification
Level 2 Certification

The Instructor Academy

Once you have mastered The Foundation you are ready to take our in person immersive Instructor Academy.   This one week in person training program at our beautiful facility in Encinitas California will give you the hands on skills and education to become a professional dog trainer.
  • In Person, Real life training with Dogs
  • Balanced Corrective Techniques, Learning Modalities, Control Work, Role Playing
  • Learn how to do in-home private training sessions
  • Learn how to teach group classes
  • Learn to how to help rescue dogs
  • ADTI - Academy Dog Training Instructor Certification
Level 3 Certification

Dog Trainer Internship 

In this invite-only internship program you get to work directly with Pamela Chandler and her certified instructors helping to train behavioral needs dogs.   You will be working hands on with dogs and learn how to help correct unwanted behaviors from simple things like learning not to jump on strangers to more challenging leash reactivity problems and everything in between.

This 100 hour internship program is by invite only and available to qualified students who have passed their ADTK certification.
  • 100 Hours of hands on instruction with live dogs
  • One-on-one mentorship program with certified instructor 
  • Exposure to a dozens of different breeds, behaviors and myriad of training techniques.
  • ADTH - Academy Dog Trainer Handler Certification

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