Clicktrain K9 Centre to train pet professionals

Bonnybridge-based Clicktrain K9 Centre is branching out to provide training for pet professionals.

Sheilagh Goodwin began teaching people to train their dogs 30 years ago, and along with her husband John, runs Clicktrain K9 Centre. 

The company currently offers dog daycare, grooming, as well as dog training classes for puppies, kennel club canine good citizen awards, and assistance dogs.

Sheilagh’s work has taken her from training with John Rogerson, one of the UK’s top behaviourists to helping dogs get the skills that they need to support disabled people, to offering Ofqual regulated iPET Network qualifications to pet owners, would-be, and existing pet professionals.

Clicktrain K9 Centre will now offer a range of iPET Network qualifications, including the Level 2 Awards in Responsible Dog Ownership, Principles of Puppy Socialisation and Canine Care, Health, and Behaviour.

The centre will soon be offering a Level 3 Awards in Emergency Canine First Aid in the Workplace, Dog Walking and Pet Sitting for Professionals and Educators in the Canine and Feline Sector, with grooming awards being added later in 2023 and many more courses as IPET Network releases them.

Sheilagh said: “It has always been a dream of mine to extend the school to offer career training too, and now it’s finally happening.

“I did lots of research into what qualifications to offer, and I chose iPET Network because of how down to earth and welfare focused the courses are.”

Sarah Mackay and Fern Gresty, Director at national awarding organisation The iPET Network, added: “We are so happy that Sheilagh is joining the iPET Network family and with her high level of expertise and deep love of animals, she is the perfect person to instill in learners the importance of the work they do.”