How to become a pet trainer

Occupational name: Pet trainer; Occupational definition: A person who cultivates good habits of pets through training and enables them to complete designated actions and tasks; main work content: (1) Use scientific methods to train pets Pets undergo purposeful training so that they can complete human instructions; (2) Grasp the pet's psychology and personality, take the pet to the arena to participate in the competition, and let the pet exert its best charm on the arena through the cooperation between people and pets.

With the continuous deepening of my country's reform and opening up and the rapid development of social economy, some emerging industries have developed accordingly. Among them, the pet industry is particularly eye-catching as an emerging industry that has developed in recent years. Due to various historical reasons, the concept of pets only began to enter our country in the early 1990s. As many people who love this industry have introduced live pets and related ancillary products into the country and learned from the experience of mature industry countries, the pet industry has achieved rapid development in the past ten years.

In developed countries, pets as an industry have a history of one or two hundred years, and have formed an industrial chain of breeding, training, supplies, medical care, medicine, and trade. Abroad, the pet economy is a huge industry. In 2001, pets created US$27.6 billion in consumption for the US economy, and there are more than 80,000 employees in the Australian pet industry. In Germany, the annual output value of dog breeding accounts for about 17% of the total national income, and it has become a pillar industry. The American Pet Products Manufacturers Association (APPMA) recently released a report on current pet consumption in the United States. The survey results show that Americans are now very willing to spend money on pets. Pet-related consumption figures have doubled several times in the past 10 years: In 1994, it was only 17 billion US dollars. By 2004, it had soared to 34.2 billion US dollars. In 2005, it rose to 36.3 billion US dollars (about 300 billion yuan). It has become part of Americans' daily expenses. According to APPMA data, there are currently 360 million pets in the United States, which is about 1.3 times the U.S. population (the U.S. population is now about 290 million). And now it has developed to a high-end consumption level, and people have an increasing demand for high-end "clothing", nutritional products, grooming, training, etc. for pets. According to the survey, Americans are willing to spend money to go to pet supply stores, pet hospitals, pet beauty salons, dog training schools and other places for high-end consumption.

The rapid development of the pet industry has led to the emergence and development of many related professional activities. Under this circumstance, the pet trainer profession has quietly emerged.

Take dogs as an example. People’s understanding of dogs has been increasing for hundreds of years. As pets, training dogs has become a science. Pet training is a comprehensive subject, which is developed on the basis of military canine science and combined with pet entertainment. Due to the rapid growth in the number of pet owners in our country, and the irregular behavior of dogs as pets, they often cause various problems in all aspects of society. Therefore, the training of pets is very important, and the pet training profession will also become the pet industry. a very important component. At present, the number of pets in existence exceeds several million, and the transaction volume of related industries exceeds 10 billion yuan. The huge profit margin has brought rapid growth in investment in the pet industry, thus generating a large number of employment opportunities. However, the corresponding education and training system for practitioners, especially pet trainers, has not yet been established, resulting in uneven quality of industry practitioners and extreme incompatibility with industry development requirements. The quality of employees not only determines the production, circulation and service levels of the pet industry, but also directly affects the spread of scientific and healthy pet culture and the whole society's understanding of the pet industry. It also directly affects the growth of pet consumer groups, and ultimately affects the market of the entire industry. Reputation and overall speed of development. Therefore, standardizing the main responsibilities of practitioners in the pet domestication industry and gradually bringing education and training into a standardized and institutionalized track will play an important role in improving the overall quality of the industry team and promoting the development of the industry.