Tarheel Canine's Dog Trainer's School...

is a professional dog trainer's academy devoted to preparing individuals to enter the business of professional dog training. The Trainer's School is a division of Tarheel Canine Training, Inc. in Sanford, NC. We are a pet obedience, behavior modification, and police K-9 training center. Tarheel Canine offers courses and certification for trainers in the following areas of instruction:

• Professional Obedience Trainer (including behavior modification).
• Police K-9 Instructor
• Police K9 Handler Courses
• Detection Dog Trainer
• Protection Trainer & Decoy
• Search & Rescue Trainer
• Accelerated Trainer Courses (professional Obedience, protection, detection, and SAR)

Tarheel Canine is a progressive training school, teaching the most advanced methods for pet obedience, behavior modification, Police K9s and working dogs. Our instruction is up to date, and you are exposed to numerous methods and philosophies, so you can make choices about what techniques to bring to the table to train dogs of varying temperaments, and with unique training and behavior problems. We seek to keep enrollment small in each class, so that we can deliver individualized hands on instruction and attention. You will be treated as an apprentice and fully involved in the training and business activities of the school. This includes participating in behavioral interviews with clients, training our client's dogs, and participating in follow-up lessons and in service training. You assist in seminars when given, and there are numerous opportunities to attend special events like competitive obedience and K-9 sports trials, and special training events held with our former students around the mid-Atlantic and southern states. Our former students are available to speak with you, and in many cases, you can visit their training facilities so you can see how they have made successful careers.

Please download our application in PDF format or Word Doc here.