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Course Information
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Intro to:
Dog Law and Risk Assessment
Handling Dangerous Dogs
Identifying Prohibited Breeds
For all dog owners and professionals
Dog Law and Risk Assessment (both one day courses, can be done via Zoom)
These fit together well for a lot of students.
The following topics are part of the Dog Law course tuition:
Understanding where liability lies for someone looking after someone else's dog and how the law deals with dog bites and banned breeds.
How defence and prosecution are conducted and how criminal and civil applications work.
Ownership disputes.
What to expect if your dog is accused of being a banned breed or is involved in causing an injury.
How to report an incident and who to.
The following topics are part of the Risk Assessment course:
Identifying risks and how to mitigate them. (weather, escape of animal, vehicles, environment, the public, assistants etc.)
Minimum equipment, checks and personal protective equipment.
Whether insurance is needed and what cover is best practice.
Suits people working in rescue or training or dog wardens.
Identifying Prohibited Breeds (2 days, one day delivered, practice at work/home, then second day delivered, usually a month later)
This course does not qualify you to identify banned breeds and be able to give evidence in court. There is no such thing.
The following topics are part of this course:
What "type" and "substantial" mean in law and how these work in evidence and disputes.
The interpretation of characteristics and how you gather that information and keep records.
Options in court and the law if a dog needs to be exempted because it is type.
Ownership of a banned breed, substitution of a keeper options, the "fit and proper" principles.
Examples by photo and video of dogs already determined to be type or not type.
This course involves examining dogs, usually hands on and your own interpretation of whether a dog is type or not.
This course is often delivered to Dog Wardens or similar, in their own kennels with real dogs but videos can be used.
Good Practice in Kennel Management (one day, can be delivered on site or via Zoom)
Record keeping, forms of enrichment, identifying stress and solutions and risk managing.
Understanding the effect that food has on dogs, equipment use etc
Suits people working in rescue or kennels