Carver
Kennel has long been putting effort on inculcating the next generation with
correct attitude towards animals, as well as breeding new dog
trainers. The purpose of such an effort is to improve Hongkongers’
attitude towards keeping dogs and the understanding of it. We hope
this attitude can be fostered, in order that Hongkongers can treat
their pets as their family members.
Although certain years ago,
Carver Kennel focuses on police dog training and
security business, its fame has brought about a great deal of pet
training businesses since then. Throughout years of operations, we
deeply understand the problems of keeping dogs in
Hong
Kong. During which we realized that the problems faced by the pet
keepers are due to the wrong
concepts towards animals within our society.
Furthermore, in the eras without Internet, information was
inadequate, pet related knowledge was lacking.
The concepts of the dog keepers were mainly from the pet
businessmen. More
seriously, the eras were without the supervision of the Hong Kong
government, everyone
could step into pet businesses under the environment and even become
pet “experts”. Even for the Hong Kong government, knowledge for
monitoring animals was insufficient. Due to this phenomenon, we
believe our education is not solely the education for keeping dogs,
but civil education.
In 2001, I became the tutor of the dog
management courses provided by the Hong Kong Federation of Trade
Unions. Yet, single effort can hardly satisfy the demands of Hong
Kong.
From 2002, I also planned to breed more dog trainers. In 2003, I
knew by chance that CGC (Canine Good
Citizen Program) was successfully implemented by the U.S.A., which
was also brought into different countries for more than 20 years.
Surely, I immediately contacted the organizations related to CGC.
They were willing to discuss with us, they requested for our
qualifications, training center’s satus and its nature, as well as
the paper about the understanding of Hong Kong domestic pets’
market, the understanding of CGC, our ability, the reasons
for making use of CGC, the expectation towards dog keepers etc. It
took me two days to finish it. After they had received all the
information, they immediately accepted and gave me
the
CGC Evaluator’s qualification in Hong Kong.
Starting from this, I have a new mission,
that is to promote CGC in Hong Kong. Due to the strong support of
the promotion of CGC in the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions, it
was a reason hindering the vocational dog trainer’s program. The
first year of vocational dog trainer’s program in 2007, was
postponed for a year because of the unsatisfactory preparation
progress. Fortunately, perseverance is our habit, despite all the
difficulties, in 9 August, 2008, with the support of the Hong Kong
Federation of Trade Unions, the first year of vocational dog
trainer’s program commenced.
A
new Dog Training Decoded Course is available for registration for now.
Although we do not dare what we have done is totally right, we can
see that all the students are full of passion and ambition. It makes
us feel that our ideas for the years and our work cannot get
stopped. For my training career over 20 years, I always ask myself,
can dogs be
taught? Can dog keepers not give up? Can reproduction be ceased?
Animal lives are worth around a thousand dollars
in the market, yet abandoning them causing their lifelong suffering
can hardly be felt by us. Why we have to train, to teach, to
persist, is all because of raising the value of dogs. We hope that
someday everyone can support us and say that what we have done is
right.
Professional Canine Trainer Association
Certificate of
Registration
of a Society No.：REF.CP/LIC/SO/19/37298
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