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Agility
AG140: Building and Maintaining A Start Line
Many dogs start out their agility career with a good start line. But, over time that start line behavior deteriorates. Why do good start lines break down for some dogs and not others? How can some dogs have great...
Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)
AG350: Agility In Da House! Small space skills!!
Are you trapped inside with your pup during the extreme heat or cold? Do you only have a very small space to work with your dog and want to perfect your agility skills? Do you need to go back to basics ...
Loretta Lake Mueller(Faculty)
Behavior
BH150: Management for Reactive Dogs
https://youtu.be/tNKvwjofJ8U This class is for learning strategies for managing and controlling dogs that are reactive to dogs and people. Helping them get over their fears is best done when you can set ...
Amy Cook(Faculty)
Body, Health & Fitness
CC120: K9 Conditioning 2
As a dog sport enthusiast, you know that keeping your dog fit is important to prevent injuries that could sideline or even end your dog's career. Unfortunately, understanding HOW to keep him fit is much m...
Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)
CC310: Canine Fitness Trainer 1
This will be the first in a 4 part series of classes focused on canine fitness and conditioning. Our goal is to provide a comprehensive program that will allow you to understand and safely implement an ex...
Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)
CC330: Canine Fitness Trainer 3
This is the third in a 4 part series of classes focused on canine fitness and conditioning. Our goal is to provide a comprehensive program that will allow you to understand and safely implement an...
Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)
CC410: Helping Dogs Thrive: Aging Dogs
In this six-week class, you’ll learn about how to keep your aging-dog’s minds and bodies active. Many dogs appear so much stronger and younger after going through this class. As dogs age...
Lori Stevens(Faculty)
CC490: Anatomy of a Workout: Plan a Specific Fitness Program for Your Dog
What exercise can I do to prevent injury? How many times do I have to do it? I love canine fitness, but why is it SO complicated? Why can't someone just give me 5 exercises to do for the rest of my dog's ...
Leslie Eide, DVM(Faculty)
FF180: Yes Please! Cooperative Canine Care
Can you draw blood from a whale without force? Yes, you can. What about put eye drops into a sea lion's eyes with no fuss? Again, yes you can. But you have to train for it. Captive ...
Deborah Jones(Faculty)Judy Keller(Faculty)
Electives
FE290: Handle This - make the most of goals, planning and learning
This course takes the work some of you began in All In Your Head (or other courses with me!) and adds more layers. A variety of goal setting techniques are cove as well as tips to help with making the most ...
Andrea Harrison(Faculty)
FE650: Adjust the Dog - Introduction to Lightroom
This course is designed to introduce the basics of post-processing. The software we will use is Adobe Lightroom Classic, but it is also possible to use Adobe Photoshop Bridge instead. Post-pro...
Amy Johnson(Faculty)
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 ...
Melissa Breau(Faculty)
FF490: Greeting Skills: From Friendly Tornadoes to Warm Hellos
This course is eligible for 13.5 training CEUs and 1 behaviour CEU for CCPDT for all levels of enrollment (This class will have a Teaching Assistant available in the Facebook study group to help the Bron...
Nancy Tucker(Faculty)
Foundations
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 Gold spots ...
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 ...
Shade Whitesel(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? A dog who keeps a certain radius around you?...
Chrissi Schranz(Faculty)
FE335: Spaces In Between
This is a class about preparing our dogs for the competition or seminar environment. Over and over I see dogs that are unprepa or rehearsing behavior we don't want at seminars, classes and trials. Over time this ...
Shade Whitesel(Faculty)
FE425: Teenage Tyrants: Surviving Your Dog's Adolescence
You had a really cute puppy. Now you have a tyrant! Leg-lifting, humping, newfound reactive behaviors, and just plain naughtiness abounds in the 6 month to 2 year range. In this class you'll learn to head off pote...
Sarah Stremming(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)
Obedience
OB115: TEAM Sports Foundations - Level One
This class is all about foundations! Start a new dog on the right foot or discover missing pieces in your training. This class is designed to cover all the exercises in TEAM level 1. The TEAM program lays...
Laura Waudby(Faculty)
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)
OB280: Novice Smart: Preparing for the Dog's First Trial
Are you setting your sights on entering your dog in their first obedience trial? Or perhaps you already ente a novice or beginner novice trial but it didn't go quite as planned? Or maybe you just rea...
Laura Waudby(Faculty)
OB569: Handler Choice February
The people spoke! And FDSA Answe! After popular demand, and listening to the response from many…. the resulting outcome… Handlers Choice Class with Kamal Fernandez! During this 6weeks course, the handler can d...
Kamal Fernandez(Faculty)
Other Dog Sports
DS330: Disc Dog - Freestyle Tricks
Winter is the perfect time to work on your disc freestyle routine! Oh, that snow and sleet and ice outside? No worries! In this class, we will focus on teaching new tricks that can be incorporated into an...
Sara Brueske(Faculty)
DS460: Optimal Arousal: Consent and the Working Dog
Optimal Arousal: Consent and the Working Dog is a six-week deep dive into understanding and working with arousal. This course is about eslishing and maintaining optimal arousal in the working dog. By “working do...
Helene Lawler(Faculty)
Rally & Freestyle
RA270: Get Ready to Rally - The Signs and Adding Precision and Fluency
During this class, we will focus on learning the signs of the four most popular Rally venues: AKC, WCRL, UKC, and ASCA. If you compete in another venue and need help with a sign that we are not covering, le...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
RA300: Sequence and Flow: Connect Your Rally Advanced and Excellent Skills
Do you need some help putting Advanced and Excellent Rally signs together? Maybe you need to practice connection with your dog while navigating the signs? Or perhaps you’re struggling with the transit...
Nicole Wiebusch (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
Nosework is the popular new dog sport that is sweeping the nation, and you can get in on the fun! Our nosework classes are taught with the method used to produce the nation's top drug and bomb dete...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
N130M: NW130 - Developing Advanced Nosework Skills
Want to continue the Nosework fun? Then this class is for you! This class will have an awesome TA to assist in the study group! This is the third skills level cours...
Melissa Chandler(Faculty)
NW160: Alerts - Developing and Problem Solving
Does your dog need to have a specific alert behavior in order to compete in your nosework venue? Is your dog not committed to staying at odor source? Is your dog too aggressive or destructive towards the ...
Lucy Newton(Faculty)
NW190: Training a Thinking Nosework Dog using a Cognitive Approach
Did you know that dogs search with WAY more than just their noses? They will use all of the information available to them in order to find source. Dogs are thinkers. We can use an unders...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW380: Developing your Trial IQ - Reading the Nosework Dog
ALL NEW CONTENT ADDED FOR FEBRUARY 2020!! This class is ALL ABOUT figuring out to to be prepa for a trial and learning the #1 most important skill in nosework... READING YOUR DOG! Thi...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW415: Nosework Handler's Choice
I asked and FDSA responded! I will be offering a Nosework Handlers Choice class and am VERY excited about it! During this 6 week course, the handler can decide on WHATEVER it is that they want to work on for th...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
TR102: Foundation Tracking 2
This course will continue to develop both drive and accuracy on foundation tracks. Our priority for this class will be to further develop the skills that the dog acqui in TR101. We will work towards incre...
Lucy Newton(Faculty)
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