Fenzi Dog Sports Academy

December 2021

FE155: Crucial Concepts of Competition - Shaping/Luring/Capturing and More!

Got a new puppy? A new sport prospect for the sport of your choice? Got future plans but no idea how to start? Which behavior DO you start with? Got a pet dog and discovered how fun teaching is? Interested ...

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

FF140: Connect and Engage with Games: Build Focus for Sport Dogs

Having a dog that’s focused on you is essential in dog sports. Yet, dogs often disengage from us. In this class, you’ll find out why that happens and what to do about it. When dogs disconnect, they take...

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

February 2022

FE355: Rock-Solid Stays for Competition & Real Life

If you find teaching movement-oriented behaviors easy but “the absence of behavior” (stays!) hard - then this class is for you! Whether your dog is just learning stays or you’ve been struggling and you know yo...

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

FE240: Calling All Dogs

Do you dream of a reliable real-life recall? Do you dream of a dog who pays attention to you, making sure not to lose you when you're out on an off-leash hike? Do you want to learn how to effectively reward ...

Chrissi Schranz(Faculty)

FE115: Baby Genius

Raising a puppy is the lucky job we get to enjoy only once in a while! The time goes so quickly, and when the time is up the opportunity to play the baby games with the clean slate is gone! The class is des...

Julie Daniels(Faculty)

FE130: Toys - Developing Cooperation and Play

Do you have a dog that chases the ball, yet won’t bring it back? Plays keep away with toys? Tugs but won’t let go? Bites you instead of the tug? Obsesses over toys, yet won’t listen to a single thing you say...

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

FE370: ALL THE SPORTS: Foundation for the Cross-training Canine

This course outlines the foundation training program developed by the instructor, Sara Brueske. This program was developed with experience training many different breeds and ages of dog to successful careers i...

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

April 2022

FE445: Crazy Good! Self-Control Games for the Wild Child

This class is about how to use high-energy training and high-energy reinforcers. It’s for dogs who already love to play in the Crazy zone. I’ve had well-trained Good dogs who could not rise to their potential withou...

Julie Daniels(Faculty)

FE485: All the Sports: Building on the Basics

All the Sports: Building on the Basics expands on the behaviors and concepts learned in the first All the Sports class. We'll move forward with various concepts to create more advanced behaviors. This class is suita...

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

FE280: Cutting Out the Cookies (or Toys!) - Reducing Reinforcement for R+ Trainers

Instructor: Shade Whitesel

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

June 2022

FF470: Cookie Jar Games

The goal of Cookie Jar Games is to help your dog want to choose delayed reinforcement over immediate reinforcement. Cookie Jar Games use a 'dog's choice' approach and creative antecedent arrangements to set up easy...

Julie Daniels(Faculty)

FE130: Toys - Developing Cooperation and Play

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

FE175: School of Fish - Raising a Performance Puppy

This course will cover everything I teach my performance dogs when they come home at 8 weeks until around 6 months of age. The order in which I teach things build on each other. This is also the same for...

Barbara Currier(Faculty)

August 2022

FE455: Beyond the Backyard: Distraction Training for Competition and Real Life!

What's your dog's kryptonite? Squirrels? Food on the ground? People? Other dogs? This class is all about getting the behaviors that you have in your home in a wide variety of lo...

Foundations

December 2021

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)