Setting Up A Dog Day Care Uk

Join our Dog Day Care Course at our centre of excellence. Intensive three day course in dog day care management and become a certified dog daycare trainer.

Have you dreamed of opening your own dog day care business?

Come train with ourselves and learn how to set up your own doggy day care centre.

Setting up a Dog Day Care Training Course covers: -

Fully understanding Dog Pack Dynamics


Successful screening of new dogs


Introductions of new dogs into your existing pack


Layout and kitting out of your premises (including information on all our suppliers and contractors)


Dog Body Language


Safe Management of your pack


Maintaining a no bark policy


Staff Management & Training



Health & Safety


Risk Assessment’s


Management of the Day to Day Running of the Centre


Dog Day Care Council Licencing


Planning


Noise Surveys


Software


Budgets


After some thought and deliberation in early 2014 we opened our Luxury Dog Day Care Centre in Stirling, Scotland. With the sole purpose of training and mentoring budding Dog Day Care entrepreneurs wishing to open and sustain a successful and safe dog day care centre. Since then we have trained clients from Denmark to Dorset, with many now operating successful dog day cares of their own.

LEARN THE RIGHT & SAFE WAY

Safe Paws for founded in 2003 by Shirley Macmillan creating one of the first pet caring companies in Scotland with over 50 members of staff providing professional pet care throughout Scotland.

Shirley then complemented her existing business by opening up The Doggy Day Care Centre at Safe Paws, based in Stirling town centre. She liaised closely with Stirling Council’s Environmental Health Department to attain a dog day care and dog training school of exceptional standards. As testament to her excellent reputation in the dog day care industry, council representatives setting up your own dog day care centrefrom all over Scotland have visited the Stirling centre to witness first hand the gold standard day to day running of this unique business. They have adopted her successful policy and format as the benchmark for any prospective day care centres setting up within their own council areas.

Shirley trained in dog day care management in the United States with a representative of the Denver Association of Dog Day Cares. She subsequently brought the “USA Doggy Day Care” concept over to the UK. During this period Shirley was invited to be the industry representative in Scotland participating on the Scottish Council Working Group for dog day care and dog home boarding licensing conditions. Within this group there is the legislator for the Scottish government on animal welfare, the head of the vet school in Glasgow, the Chief superintendent of the SSPCA (Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) and most of the environmental health officers in Scotland. Together they developed policy and set gold standards for this new and exciting industry.

Shirley’s main passion is to encourage, support and guide her training clients before, during and after their dog day care management course, helping this new industry get off to the best possible start. Our training clients gain the appropriate knowledge and experience to open up their own successful and safe dog day care centre, therefore attaining a great reputation for the dog day care industry as a whole.

Feedback: -

“Shirley and her staff did an outstanding job in advising us and sharing her extensive experience on the practical & business aspects of starting a dog daycare.

All parts of our visit were excellent, from training on the floor to our Q& A sessions with Shirley. If you’re looking to get into the pet care industry, we very much recommend Shirley’s consulting service”

Claus Hetting & Lise Soeballe, Dog Daycare Entrepreneurs in Denmark

CONSULTANCY PRICES

1. £800 (plus vat) TWO DAY TRAINING PACKAGE: - (opening up and running a successful dog day care centre)


2. £400 (plus vat) ONE DAY TRAINING PACKAGE : - (dog management training including screening & safe play)


3. £300 (plus vat) STAFF TRAINING DAYS – (full day floor work in dog pack management up to 2 members of staff)

4. £100 (plus vat) Q& A CALL – 30 minute call /Skype /Facetime

*On the two day course you will receive a training certificate in dog day care management covering all the areas of the course you have successfully completed

dog day care management certificate

*For the two day training course before or after the course we invite you back to work on the floor with our staff and dogs for as long as you need to gain experience and confidence working and managing large dog pack dynamics for FREE.

Course dates on Setting up a Dog Day Care – 2015

Spaces still available: -

March 18-19

March 25-26th

April 1-2

April 15-16th

Further dates to be announced

It’s so important to us and the industry as a whole, that you can open your new business with the skills necessary and the knowledge needed to make your doggy day care centre thrive and keep your dog clients happy and safe.

Shirley is about to chat, advise or guide you should you need help before, during or after you open your new business.

Should you be staying over there is a premier inn and a holiday inn 5 minutes walks from ourselves with many restaurants, gyms and a cinema.

We will collect you from your hotel on the first day of your course.

Setting up a dog day care with Safe Paws Training Course



There are limited places each year, to place your interest please PM ourselves or call our office on 01786 448393