Fenzi Dog Sports Academy - Course Schedule

January 1, 2026

Behavior

B3000: Arousal Mobility - Pattern Games for Managing Arousal

3 WEEK CLASS - Does your dog struggle to settle, stay focused, or shift gears in exciting environments? This class is designed to help dogs learn arousal regulation utilizing the power of pattern games. This cour...

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

Body, Health & Fitness

C3000: Handler Fitness Primer

A lot of dog people want to be fitter… but somehow never quite get there. Not because they don’t care. But because fitness is hard to start, easy to second-guess, and often feels disconnected from real life with...

Liz Joyce(Faculty)

Foundations

F3000: Say What!? The Hows and Whys of Teaching Clean Verbal Cues

3 WEEK CLASS - Have you found it challenging to help your dog grasp verbal cues? Does it seem like your dog sometimes doesn’t recognize the verbal cues you’ve taught? Or perhaps verbal cues feel less relevant to ...

Julie Flanery(Faculty)

F3001: From GO To WHOA!: How to Switch from Chaos to Settle

3 WEEK CLASS - Got a dog who struggles to settle or flip the switch to off? In this focused 3-week class, you’ll learn simple, easy behaviours that will help your dog find their CHILL so they can settle quickly a...

Heather Lawson(Faculty)

Obedience

O3000: Fit to Heel: Fitness for Obedience Dogs

3 WEEK CLASS - This class will ensure that your dog is physically up to the challenges of the obedience ring! Join Kelly as she explores the roles of strength, movement and balance in fitness exercises...

Kelly Daniel(Faculty)

Scent Sports

N3000: Advanced Skills for Emerging Nosework Teams

3 WEEK CLASS - Your team is growing, your dog is confident on odor, and it’s time to take that next big step! In this course, we’ll introduce advanced nosework skills designed specifically for emerging ...

Julie Symons(Faculty)

February 1, 2026

Agility

AG190: The Glue for Future Agility Stars

This course is different than most agility foundation classes. Rather than introducing obstacle and flatwork skills needed to run an agility course, this class lays out the critical skills (the glue) your dog nee...

Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)

Behavior

BH150: Management for Reactive Dogs

https://youtu.be/tNKvwjofJ8U Ti of "just managing" your lungy barky dog in the moment? You can AMP up your management with an Active Management Plan! Don't improvise, don't "make it up ...

Amy Cook, PhD(Faculty)

BH205: Dopamine Dive - Box Feeding

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that influences pleasure, motivation, attention, mood and learning. It is part of the brain’s reward system that motivates an individual to seek out pleasurable experiences re...

Karen Deeds, CDBC (Faculty)

BH355: ACE Free Work

Discover the power of ACE Free Work and all that it can do for you and your dog! Created by Sarah Fisher at Animal Cent Education, Free Work uses individualized enrichment stations to enhance your dog’s body, mov...

Kim Palermo(Faculty)

BH375: Freedom from FOMO: Overcoming Canine Frustration

Does your dog frequently experience feelings of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) or frustration at the thought of being left out of all things fun? Whether those feelings come up when you are training another dog...

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

Body, Health & Fitness

CC220: Massage for Canine Athletes

Learn how to care for your canine athlete while training, resting, or on the day of a big event. This class will focus on teaching you the skill of using your hands to work soft tissue to increase circulation, uc...

Aleks Woodroffe(Guest Instructors)

CC230: Construct a Winning Conditioning Plan for Your Sport Dog

Build a Winning Conditioning Plan! Whether you compete in dog sports or step into the conformation ring, your dog’s fitness plays a critical role in their success. Yes—all dogs benefit from a targeted conditioni...

Ashley Escobar(Faculty)

CC300: Getting Geeky About Fitness

This class is an intensive dive into the geeky side of Canine Fitness and Conditioning training. We’ll look at relevant biology and biomechanics, anatomy and physiology terms, relevant training theory and applica...

Kelly Daniel(Faculty)

Electives

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, sh...

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

Foundations

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? Is ...

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

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

Ever feel envy when you watch a obedience/rally/Schutzhund/etc… trial performance and the dog executes perfect skills for the WHOLE routine? No treats in the handler’s pocket, no toy in their hand, but the dog is...

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

FE595: Bombproof Behaviors

You've trained the behaviors down to the tiniest of detail and are now ready to show them off to the world. This class will help you prepare for the distractions that await you in any environment you can ...

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

FF125: The Adolescent Dog: Making a Terrific Teenager!

Adolescence... argh! The era of big bodies and big feelings but tiny brains and tiny attention spans. That time frame between around 6 to 24 months when your sweet little training superstar seems to dissolv...

Erin Lynes(Faculty)

FF155: Go Ahead, Motivate Me! Engagement for the Differently Motivated Dog

The types of dogs that will be best suited to joining us in this class are those that are naturally quite independent, appear to have very little interest in “work”, appear to have a very short attention-span whe...

Sharon Carroll(Faculty)

FF185: Ready and Resilient: From Puppy to Awesome Adult

Teaching Approach: Sample Lecture New class for the February 2026 session. Registration courselist sessions FF185 /s

Irith Bloom(Faculty)

RA560: Shape Up - Improving and Maintaining Your and Your Dog's Shaping Skills

Shaping is the art of teaching by reinforcing small, incremental steps toward a final, goal behavior—letting the dog take the lead in the learning process. It builds problem‑solving, confidence, creativit...

Julie Flanery(Faculty)

Obedience

OB135: TEAM Sports Foundations Level Two

This class continues on with the foundations begun in TEAM 1! This class is designed to cover all the exercises in the TEAM Level 2. The TEAM program systematically lays out the building blocks for dev...

Heather Lawson(Faculty)

OB160: Ring Confidence for Obedience, Rally, and Agility

This course is officially expanded to include agility as well as obedience and rally! Most handlers spend months or even years teaching their dogs the specific exercises and obstacle performance foun...

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

OB195: Creating Confidence in Your Obedience Dog

Most dogs are not innately confident. Especially when it comes to obedience. A sport that is not inherently self-reinforcing. A sport where dogs must learn to perform complex behaviors under a lot of pressure. In...

Petra Ford(Faculty)

OB285: From TEAM to Trials: Building Chains for the Novice Ring

Have you been dabbling in obedience but hesitant to actually take it to the next level? Or maybe you even trialed and realized your dog doesn't know how to heel unless you have a treat in your hand or can t...

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

OB305: Fronts & Finishes: From Foundations to Fabulous!

There are lots of fronts and finishes in obedience! Fronts and finishes are incibly complicated. They consist of many pieces that all need to come together. Because they are so difficult, the error ratio te...

Petra Ford(Faculty)

Other Dog Sports

DS250: Best in Class: Conformation Show Skills and Conditioning

Have you ever watched a breed ring dog show and thought, “that looks easy! It's just land handed circles and stand position?” There is a lot more to showing a dog in the breed ring than just showing up in fancy c...

Ashley Escobar(Faculty)

Rally & Freestyle

RA260: Get Ready to Rally - Foundation Skills

Discover the Joy of Rally: Build Skills, Confidence, and Connection! Are you ready to take your dog training to the next level while deepening your bond with your furry companion? Welcome to "Get Ready to Rally:...

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

RA550: Transitions and Flow - Creating Effective Sequences for Musical Freestyle Routines

Have you ever watched a freestyle performance that mesmerized you? Not because the dog was performing a lot of difficult or fancy tricks or because the handler had a great costume and danced well, b...

Julie Flanery(Faculty)

Scent Sports

N101S: NW101 - Introduction to Nosework

Nosework is easily the hottest new sport around, and it’s easy to see why! It’s fun for humans, dogs love to participate, and it’s good for building confidence and focus in dogs that have issues like shy...

Stacy Barnett(Faculty)

N120J: NW120 - Introduction to NW Search Elements

You’ve put in the time to build your foundation - now don’t let that momentum fade! This next step will take you from solid basics to confident, competition-ready searching. And the best part? We'll mee...

Julie Symons(Faculty)

NW160: Alerts - Developing and Problem Solving

This course is a handlers choice to work on improving your dog's detection alert. Does your dog need to have a specific alert behavior in order to compete in your nosework venue? Is your dog not committed...

Lucy Newton(Faculty)

NW175: Fun with FUNdamentals: Progress Games for Success

Every team is on a trajectory, and that trajectory either takes them down a path of success or down a path fraught with challenges. The difference along this path is rarely related to the problems that th...

Stacy Barnett(Faculty)

NW320: Motivating Drills for Maintaining Skills

Like with many sports, it's nice to have some drills to set up and run! Drills can help us maintain skills. They can also surface gaps! We may also find we aren't pushing ourselves for more challenges whe...

Julie Symons(Faculty)

NW455: Converging Odor Deep Dive

This class is ALL about Converging Odor... What IS Converging Odor? Converging Odor occurs when there is at least a partial overlap of scent cones from 2 or more hides. For a dog to work this skill e...

Course Schedule

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January 1, 2026

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

Liz Joyce(Faculty)

Julie Flanery(Faculty)

Heather Lawson(Faculty)

Kelly Daniel(Faculty)

Julie Symons(Faculty)