The Five Freedoms: Supporting Your Dog’s Wellbeing

Caring for a dog means considering both their physical health and how they experience daily life. Food, water and a comfortable home are essential, but so are opportunities to explore, rest, enjoy companionship and feel safe. The Five Freedoms provide a useful framework for thinking about these needs. They describe the conditions we should work…

Confidence in Clinical Assessment is at the Core of Your Success.

Every canine professional has felt this at one time or another… That quiet sinking feeling when you think, “I have no idea what’s going on.” You take a deep breathe, wishing you had another ten minutes to run the assessment again—but you don’t. You’ve been through the motions, undertaken a full health screen of the…

Canine Certificate Course 2024

“Working with dogs every day is the most beautiful way to make a living”. Some people want the chance to take year one (of the Diploma), before commiting to two years of study. That’s why we offer the Certificate in Canine Osteopathy as a standalone product. Those who successfully complete the Certificate have the chance…

Course Currently Available

Did you know, our courses run all year round? From some of the recent emails we’ve received it’s evident that the set up of our courses isn’t obvious, so let’s keep it simple. Almost all of our courses have an online element, so we can keep them open for purchase all year round. The only restriction…

Level Two Pathway Explained

Let’s talk about Level Two 14 modules make up the Level Two pathway and commencements must be preceded be either an AOI  conversion course or a professional qualification in animal osteopathy. Modules 1-7 typically take a year to complete part-time and Modules 8-14 the same.  Osteopathy is a comprehensive system of healthcare that encompasses the…

Fireside Chat with Hilary Nickerson

Join Our Fireside Chat with Hilary Nickerson: Search & Rescue Training FREE EVENT 12th December 2020 @ 18:30hrs GMT QUESTIONS TO HILARY BY DECEMBER 6thIf you have a question that you would like Hilary to answer on the night, please send them into us by December 6th 2020 via contact@animalosteopathyinternational.com In the first of our Fireside Chats, Hilary…

Partners – AOI & Animal Therapy Magazine

AOI partners with Animal Therapy Magazine As you will read below, Animal Therapy Magazine (ATM) has quickly become the go-to publication in the UK for professionals, owners and associations to share ideas and information about animal therapy, and it is for this reason that Animal Osteopathy International has partnered together with them, to collectively aid…

Hilary & Boogie 🐾 Coming Soon!

In the first of our winter fireside chat’s Hilary Nickerson will tell the amazing story of her and Boogie. A very special Boykin Spaniel. Age 63, Hilary trained Boogie to become a certified, operational scent-specific trailing dog and to seal the experience, she went on to write her first book Boogie on Down the Road….

Last chance to join Canine Level 1

This course is the fundamental building block of all our practitioner level canine programmes and aims to offer practitioners a robust baseline knowledge from which to grow as a canine therapist. Successful completion and comprehension of the content will give practitioners all they need to enter our Level II canine courses with confidence. Open to…

Just 4 spaces left! Don’t miss out.

If you want to make the treatment of dogs part of your life, now is the time. With lockdowns being imposed everywhere, most of us have a little more time on our hands, so it’s a perfect time to start a new online (dual modality) course that we lead you towards happier days in 2021….