About Us​

The Pet Academy was set up in 2019 to help provide education to pet professionals and pet owners in the UK to help them upskill and improve the knowledge and qualifications to give pets in their care a higher standard of care and welfare. We now offer a number of Pet First Aid course options from a short pet owner course to Level 2 and Level courses endorsed by TQUK and OFQUAL regulated body. We also offer other animal based online courses which are available to take in your own time. In 2023, we launched a ‘Host your own’ package allowing kennels, catteries and other venues to host a pet first aid course which we would come and teach.Find out more about The Pet Academy’s instructors and course writers and lecturers here.

Our Instructors

Tash

Tash has grown up around animals and has a passion for caring for them which fuelled her education. Tash has a BTEC in Applied Animal Management and a BSc Applied Animal Management. She is also a qualified Pet First Aid Instructor.

Becca

Becca has a lifetime of experience of pets, a BSc in Neuroscience specialising in Neuropsychology and it's influence on learning, memory and behaviour, a MSc (Distinction) in Equine Science and a PGCE in Further Education. She has worked as an Animal Behaviour and Welfare Research Scientist and Lecturer Internationally and in the UK. Becca has tutored and lectured undergraduate Vet Students and Further Education Students in the UK. Becca is also a qualified Pet First Aid Instructor. Becca founded and still manages one of the largest pet care companies in the UK.

Why Choose Us?

Highly Qualified Instructors with specialisms in their field

With an MSc and multiple BSc qualifications alongside being qualified Pet First Instructors, you can be safe in the knowledge that are receiving high standards of knowledge and skills.

Not only to our instructors have specialist academic qualifications, they also have a wide range of practical experience from setting up and running one of the largest pet care companies in the UK to teaching vets and animal health workers abroad.

Alongside the specialist qualifications, our instructors are also qualified lecturers. With experience of teaching hundreds of students pet first aid, tutoring undergraduate vet students and lecturing FE students. Their Teaching certifcates and practical teaching experience shine through.

Our courses teach you what you need to know to excel in your field or to gain new skills as a pet owner.

Some of our Pet Business courses are regulated by the iPET network, and OFQUAL regulated body showing our commitment to high standards. 

Our Pet First Aid Level 2 and Level 3 courses are endorsed by TQUK, an OFQUAL regulated body.

Our Level 2 and Level 3 Pet First Aid courses are accepted widely by local authorities to fulfil the licensing requirements. 

Check out our reviews page for lots of reviews about our courses.

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