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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
BH110: Dealing with the Bogeyman: Helping Reactive and Fearful Dogs - The Play Way!
This is Amy's signature Play Way class! Is your dog brilliant at home but shuts down at the show? Or does he bark and lunge at people or dogs on walks? Does she seem generally stressed, whether frantic about it ...
Amy Cook, PhD(Faculty)
BH160: Sound Advice: Conquering Noise Sensitivity
Is your dog worried about the noises around her? This class is for you! Whether the issue is in your house with your dog barking at the sounds outside, or you have a dog that can't go out because buildi...
Amy Cook, PhD(Faculty)
BH265: Strategies for Training and Competing the Sensitive Dog
This class provides information for those working with dogs that perform the following behaviors in training, in competition, or in specific situations: slowing, hesitating, freezing, losing focus, appearin...
Sharon Carroll(Faculty)
BH285: Control Unleashed Pattern Games for Sports and Life Skills
This class is for dogs who have trouble with the environmental conditions they meet in their life with you. Is your dog aroused by other dogs, afraid of new people, stimulated by motion, or anxious ab...
Julie Daniels(Faculty)
Body, Health & Fitness
CC140: Aged to Perfection: Keeping Your Senior Fit in Mind and Body
As the owner of multiple dogs in their double digit years, each at various stages of ‘aged to perfection’, I understand the challenges that can come with having an older dog (or several!) This class i...
Erin Lynes(Faculty)
CC180: Powerful Performance: Fitness to Optimize All Sports
Many people don’t understand the importance of conditioning until their dog has suffe an injury. They feel that participating in dog sports IS conditioning. That couldn’t be further from the...
Petra Ford(Faculty)
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)
Electives
FE565: Finding Five - Training for a Busy World
Too much work, and too little time? Too exhausted to train your dog at the end of a busy day? Feeling guilty for not having exercised them enough? Come join us in Finding Five! We’ll be looking at 5 comm...
Chrissi Schranz(Faculty)
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 includ...
Heather Lawson(Faculty)
FE640: Compose the Dog - Photographic Composition
Compose the Dog is the class where you learn how to arrange all the things in your photo to make the strongest image possible. Proper exposure is just the beginning. Composition is where you start learnin...
Amy Johnson(Faculty)
RA590: Tricked into Freestyle: From Foundation to Fantastic!
Are you ready to add some paw-zazz to your trick training? Ti of the same old tricks of spins and weaves? Let’s kick it up a notch! We’ll take the basics and transform them into an array of awesome tricks and beh...
Julie Flanery(Faculty)
Foundations
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 discove how fun teaching is? Interested i...
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 career...
Sara Brueske(Faculty)
FE460: Training Levels -- Level 2
If Level 1 was kindergarten, Level 2 is all of elementary school. Everything you and the dog learned in Level 1 now becomes more solid and more useful. You'll both be introduced to many new behaviours, w...
Sue Ailsby(Faculty)Heather Lawson(Faculty)
FF140: Connect and Engage with Games: Build Focus for Sport Dogs
Having a dog that’s focused on you is essential not only in dog sports, but in life. Sometimes it's hard to keep our dogs' attention, though! In this class, you’ll find out why that happens and what t...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
Obedience
OB115: TEAM Sports Foundations - Level One
Interested in dog sports? Come teach your dog the foundations needed to be successul in obedience and rally! This isn't a class full of heeling around in circles. Learn about using foot targets, fan...
Laura Waudby(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 performa...
Laura Waudby(Faculty)
OB215: Competition Heeling Part One - Fundamentals
Great heeling is a pleasure to watch. Dog and handler moving together as one. The dog is happy, animated, joyful and confident. Heeling is a dance that should express joy and teamwork. How do you accomplish...
Petra Ford(Faculty)
OB340: Strike a Pose: Fabulous Positions!
You enter your sport ring/field, dog heeling by your side. When the exercise comes, you leave them on a specific position and walk away. You cue each position change, and your dog executes them perfectly with paw...
Shade Whitesel(Faculty)
OB370: Reliable Retrieves
This class will cover all of the pieces needed to train a reliable obedience retrieve. We will begin by teaching each piece of the behavior chain including the hold and front position. Then we will work to put th...
Sara Brueske(Faculty)
Rally & Freestyle
RA330: Movin' On Up: Skills and Signs for Master Rally
Are you a little intimidated by the master signs, with all those spins, sends, and signals? Don’t be! The rally master class is a blast for you and your dog. If you’ve both been enjoying rally t...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
Scent Sports
N101J: 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...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
N120M: NW120 - Introduction to NW Search Elements
Nosework / Scent Work is the popular new dog sport that is sweeping the nation, and you can get in on the fun! Our classes are taught with the method used to produce the nation's top drug and bomb dete...
Melissa Chandler(Faculty)
NW170: Building Blocks of Nosework - Before Odor
You, your dog, an inquiring mind and the start of a whole new world of opportunity. In this course you will learn the foundations of nosework even before you ever introduce odor. This course has been desi...
Stacy Barnett(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)
NW440: Spectacular Sourcing Skills Soup to Nuts
The ultimate skill in sport detection is Sourcing. When a dog understand true sourcing, skills like working pooling, trapped, lofting odor or most any other challenging advanced skill becomes easy. Im...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW720: Find It! - Lost Item Recovery
Want to learn about a new scent organization and play more scent games with your dog? Teaching scent detection is one of my specialties and an area I'm truly passionate about. Lost Item Recovery is one of the tr...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
TR101: Foundation Tracking 1
This class covers everything the handler needs to know to get organized and get started in tracking. We will discuss topics such as equipment preferences, other equipment needed, how to develop a start rout...
Lucy Newton(Faculty)
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