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Rescue Essentials

This Level 2 course - Rescue Essentials, explains the best way to engage with and encourage your new rescue dog to settle into his or her forever home, whatever their background and gives you the essential tools to enjoy your lives together. You will learn how to prepare for your new dog and steer a steady course through the first six months. This a must do course for anyone considering adopting a rescue dog. 
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What's included?

  • Monthly 1-2-1's with your Tutor.
  • Live Teaching Events
  • Peer Review Groups.
  • Study Groups
  • Enriched Learning.
  • Responsive & Timely Support.
  • Study on your Schedule.
  • Entry to our Private Community.
  • Generous Study Time (with extensions available)

Course Content

Meet the instructor

Irene Perrett

Irene Perrett. MA, Cert Ed., BHS IV SM.


Irene’s involvement with rescue dogs resonates with her long-held passion to better understand human and more-than-human relations. She has a background in equine education, contributing to the development of equine courses and is a Pony Club AH assessor. Irene works with horses and their guardians to engender an empathetic and educated approach. It was a Romanian rescue dog who sparked her desire to research and study canines, with qualifications in teaching, training, bereavement, animal cruelty and well-being. She gained an Advanced Diploma in Canine Psychology and Behaviour in 2018, an Anthrozoology MA in 2022 and is currently a PhD student at the University of Exeter. She has a particular interest in the well-being and rights of human and non-human animals, and engendering cohesive interspecies relationships. Irene lives with and fosters Romanian rescue dogs and can often be found walking with them over Exmoor.


Patrick Jones - Course author

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