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Today’s Animal Care Stats
816
Animals currently in care
254
Animals currently in foster
198
Shelter animals currently in vet care
92
Animals currently available for adoption
Help save animals from neglect and abuse
This winter, we're expecting more than 3,000 animals to come through our shelter doors. Many will need urgent vet care and complex surgeries. Please will you help?
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Help save animals from neglect and abuse
This winter, we're expecting more than 3,000 animals to come through our shelter doors. Many will need urgent vet care and complex surgeries. Please will you help?
Donate nowMake a difference in under 5 minutes!
Upcoming events
Mastering dog grooming skills at home
Wanting to keep your pooch clean and tidy between grooms? Keen to improve your grooming and hygiene care skills for you canine friend? This short course will cover the basics of home grooming, bathing and nail care for dogs. It will cover points on:
– What can ethical dog grooming at home look like?
– Maintenance grooming to keep on top of your dog’s health and wellbeing.
-Learning techniques for nail trimming, ear cleaning, clipping, and trimming around various areas such as pads, backside, armpits, and groin regions.
– Tools used to de-shed and prevent matting.
– Ensuring safe handling and effective training methods to create a more enjoyable grooming experience for everyone involved.
Please leave fur babies at home as we will be working with RSPCA behaviour tested dogs
Demonstrations will be held by industry professionals.
What you will learn
- How to create a positive grooming experiences though classical conditioning and giving the animal choice and control
What you will get
- Understand how to create positive grooming experiences though classical conditioning and giving the animal choice and control
Animal behaviour & management training – dog
Upskill your staff in 2023!
RSPCA Victoria offers Animal Behaviour & Handling Training for Civic Compliance Officers, Local Laws Officers and Animal Management Officers using interactive, hands-on learning and real-life scenarios.
Key topics include:
- Animal welfare and maintaining low stress environments
- Dog Behaviour and Body Language
- Working with fearful/aggressive dogs
- Dog Handling Equipment
- Defensive Dog Handling Skills
- Techniques to get dogs in and out of vehicles
Our training programs are delivered by qualified RSPCA Victoria Educators, Animal Care Attendants and Behaviourists.
This is the perfect professional development opportunity for council officers and supports the training requirements in Council Domestic Animal Management Plans (a provision of the Domestic Animals Act 1994 section 68A).
What you will learn
What you will learn
- Use of dog capture and restraint equipment
- Identification of body language
What you will get
- Price includes lunch, morning/afternoon tea, course materials and a Certificate of Attendance
What to wear
- Work attire
- Closed in shoes
Appropriate for
Civic Compliance Officers, Local Laws Officers and Animal Management Officers
Mastering dog grooming skills at home
Wanting to keep your pooch clean and tidy between grooms? Keen to improve your grooming and hygiene care skills for you canine friend? This short course will cover the basics of home grooming, bathing and nail care for dogs. It will cover points on:
– What can ethical dog grooming at home look like?
– Maintenance grooming to keep on top of your dog’s health and wellbeing.
-Learning techniques for nail trimming, ear cleaning, clipping, and trimming around various areas such as pads, backside, armpits, and groin regions.
– Tools used to de-shed and prevent matting.
– Ensuring safe handling and effective training methods to create a more enjoyable grooming experience for everyone involved.
Please leave fur babies at home as we will be working with RSPCA behaviour tested dogs
Demonstrations will be held by industry professionals.
What you will learn
- How to create a positive grooming experiences though classical conditioning and giving the animal choice and control
What you will get
- Understand how to create positive grooming experiences though classical conditioning and giving the animal choice and control
Pet first aid
This course teaches you to measure vital signs of life in pets, bandage a bleeding wound, perform CPR on an animal, and maintain safety while working with an injured pet.
Our programs are tailored for those wanting to enter the animal industry or already working within this field, as well as helping people to increase skills with their own pets.
What you will learn:
- How to observe and measure vital signs of life in your pet
- How to bandage a bleeding wound and perform CPR on an animal
- Maintain safety while working with an injured pet
What you will get:
- A hands-on, practical class – meet and work with our industry experts and qualified trainers
- Informative and fun session to increase your knowledge and skills
- Detailed course manual to take home
- Certificate of Attendance
Appropriate for:
Pet owners, potential pet owners, those working with pet owners or their pets. Attendees must be 16 years or older.
Animal behaviour & management training – dog
Upskill your staff in 2023!
RSPCA Victoria offers Animal Behaviour & Handling Training for Civic Compliance Officers, Local Laws Officers and Animal Management Officers using interactive, hands-on learning and real-life scenarios.
Key topics include:
- Animal welfare and maintaining low stress environments
- Dog Behaviour and Body Language
- Working with fearful/aggressive dogs
- Dog Handling Equipment
- Defensive Dog Handling Skills
- Techniques to get dogs in and out of vehicles
Our training programs are delivered by qualified RSPCA Victoria Educators, Animal Care Attendants and Behaviourists.
This is the perfect professional development opportunity for council officers and supports the training requirements in Council Domestic Animal Management Plans (a provision of the Domestic Animals Act 1994 section 68A).
What you will learn
What you will learn
- Use of dog capture and restraint equipment
- Identification of body language
What you will get
- Price includes lunch, morning/afternoon tea, course materials and a Certificate of Attendance
What to wear
- Work attire
- Closed in shoes
Appropriate for
Civic Compliance Officers, Local Laws Officers and Animal Management Officers
Mastering dog grooming skills at home
Wanting to keep your pooch clean and tidy between grooms? Keen to improve your grooming and hygiene care skills for you canine friend? This short course will cover the basics of home grooming, bathing and nail care for dogs. It will cover points on:
– What can ethical dog grooming at home look like?
– Maintenance grooming to keep on top of your dog’s health and wellbeing.
-Learning techniques for nail trimming, ear cleaning, clipping, and trimming around various areas such as pads, backside, armpits, and groin regions.
– Tools used to de-shed and prevent matting.
– Ensuring safe handling and effective training methods to create a more enjoyable grooming experience for everyone involved.
Please leave fur babies at home as we will be working with RSPCA behaviour tested dogs
Demonstrations will be held by industry professionals.
What you will learn
- How to create a positive grooming experiences though classical conditioning and giving the animal choice and control
What you will get
- Understand how to create positive grooming experiences though classical conditioning and giving the animal choice and control
RSPCA Shop
Did you know that the profits from our online store go straight to helping animals in need?
Last year over 14,000 homeless and neglected animals entered RSPCA Victoria’s doors.
Your purchase makes a bigger difference than you think. 💖
