Electives

FE375: Is This It? Match To Sample

Can your dog pick out the identical matching item you're holding or pick out an item from a pile that you've previously touched? Ever wondered just how far you can go in stretching your dog’s cognitive abilities? In...

FE780: Business End of the Dog - Building a Wordpress Website

A website is often the first impression your future customers will have of you and what you do! This class will help you build a first-in-class website for your dog business — good for trainers, breeders, or any oth...

FF240: Tricks for Titles

Did you know that you can now title your dog in Tricks?! Tricks aren’t just for fun anymore and this isn’t just another tricks class! Tricks have so many purposes including teaching your dog to enjoy training, sharp...

FF410: Cognitive Challenges: The Key to How Your Dog Thinks

A creative class developed by Barbara Lloyd to test your dog’s ability problem solve.  This class is suitable for puppies and dogs all the way up to adulthood. For puppies in particular, this class wo...

FE345: Imitation and Mimicry - You Can Do It

  Are you ready for the next step in your journey with your dog? Are you ready to communicate in a way few have explored?  You’ve heard of it! You know you want to do it! You can! And so can your dog! &nb...

FE540: Knock-knock: From Chaos to Calm

  Does the entrance to your home become a chaotic scene when someone knocks or rings the doorbell? This course is all about the many ways to teach your dog how to greet visitors with class and charm. No more s...

FE585: Modifier Cues

  WHAT IS A MODIFIER CUE?It's a cue that gives additional information to your dog to further differentiate the exact behaviour that will earn them a reward.  Some examples of Modifier cues might include r...

FE640: Compose the Dog - Photographic Composition

  Compose the Dog is the class where the pieces start to come together. We take everything you know about exposure and post-processing and add a layer of "how to arrange all the things" and come out on the oth...

FE590: Out and About

This class is all about enjoying the time you spend out and about with your dog: urban walks, nature hikes, and going places. Whether you and your dog walk on leash, off leash, or on a long line, there are skills th...

FE600: Shoot the Dog!

Did you get a new camera and aren’t sure how to take photos of your dog that aren’t one big blur?  Do you have a black dog that seems to become a black hole in every photo you take?  Ar...

FE660: Chase the Dog - Photographing Dogs in Motion

This is a course about photographing moving subjects, whether it be dogs, birds, or tractors. There are no FDSA prerequisites for this class.  However, this is an advanced photography class and not intended fo...

FF210: Brain Benders - Cognition & Thinking Games

FF490: Greeting Skills: From Friendly Tornadoes to Warm Hellos

  Teach your overly friendly dog how to say hello – or maintain a polite distance – with grace and finesse.  This course is for the dog who absolutely loves people and/or dogs and feels the need to say he...

FE670: Expose the Dog

   This Photography Class will teach you strategies for picking your settings in Manual Exposure. What Settings Should I Use? Of all the questions I get asked as a photographer, this one is the most com...

FE690: Collage the Dog: Creating Photo Collages in Photoshop

​I have been creating photo collages for my clients for almost 20 years. Learn the Photoshop tools and techniques that I use to create these keepsakes and apply them to make your own. The great thing about coll...

FF230: Tricks with a Purpose

There are so many reasons why training tricks are beneficial to your dog, yourself and your relationship, tricks aren’t just for entertainment or rainy days anymore! Teaching tricks not only help our dogs learn how ...