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Agility
AG220: Building and Maintaining Stopped Contacts
Many dogs start out their agility career with good stopped contacts. But over time, the behavior or the criteria changes and morphs into something undesirable. Why does this happen? This class will focus on the ...
Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)
AG380: Agility Drills - Get a Responsive Dog!
Does your dog have a tendency to ignore your commands on course? Or "blow you off"? Do you feel you need clarity in the information you are giving to your dog? Is your dog a tunnel sucker? How do you fix it? I...
Loretta Lake Mueller(Faculty)
AG460: Making It Easy - 12 Commonly Used OMD Inspired Techniques
This course will teach you how to speak the dog’s language and make you a more fluid team in your communication. This course will break down the 12 most commonly used One Mind Dogs (OMD) inspi techn...
Barbara Currier(Faculty)
Behavior
BH110: Dealing with the Bogeyman - Helping Fearful Reactive and Stressed Dogs
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 or quiet and vigilant? All of these commo...
Amy Cook(Faculty)
BH270: Build Your Bond - Relationship Walks
Did you know that every time you take your dog out for a walk, you could be building on your connection? Learn some simple ways to maximize your time improving fluency and generalizing behaviors for competi...
Donna Hill(Faculty)
Body, Health & Fitness
CC320: Canine Fitness Trainer 2
This is the second 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 a...
Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)
CC340: Canine Fitness Trainer 4
This is the last in the 4 part series. This course will discuss specific types of dogs including seniors, overweight dogs, puppies, and overly active dogs. We will start using cases to put the four se...
Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)
CC480: Beyond the Peanut: Cavalettis for Fitness
Taking the mystery out of cavalettis with more exercises than you thought imaginable. A great exercise for every dog whether you are looking to improve your ring presence in conformation, increase body awar...
Leslie Eide, DVM(Guest Instructors)
Electives
EL120: Volunteer Ready! Therapy Dog Skills
THERAPY DOGS are everywhere now – Airports, School Reading Programs, Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Court Rooms, and even Fire and Police Stations – all provided through volunteers & their dogs. Volunteer...
Heather Lawson(Faculty)
FE190: It's All In Your Head - Developing Your Mental Game
Do you overthink your training, have ring nerves, experience anxiety around training or competing, or feel excessive stress about training? Are you curious to understand the impact your brain has on train...
Andrea Harrison(Faculty)
FE670: Expose the Dog
What Settings Should I Use? Of all the questions I get asked as a photographer, this one is the most common. Knowing how to pick your settings to use on your DSLR camera can make or break you...
Amy Johnson(Faculty)
Foundations
FE120: Performance Fundamentals
Not sure which class to take first here at Fenzi Academy? Well, this one is a great place to start! This class is all about the foundation concepts and skills that will help you succeed on your training j...
Deborah Jones(Faculty)Judy Keller(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)
FE315: Are You Ready? Trial Preparation for Competition
Are you thinking about competing? You have been taking some dog sport classes and are thinking it might be fun to try a competition and see what it is all about. Great! What do you do next? How do you even ...
Ann Smorado(Guest Instructors)
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)
FE385: The Science of Training: Think, Plan, Do!
Sport behaviors are too important for you to not have a precise plan for teaching them! While we can certainly "wing it" sometimes in life and with some behaviors, if you want precision and clear understanding in...
Amy Cook(Faculty)
FE415: Zen Logic - Making Sense of Self Control
What is Zen Logic? The title Zen Logic has two meanings. First, Zen Logic is a training approach based on the concept that giving up what you want can lead to an even better outcome than directly goin...
Deborah Jones(Faculty)Judy Keller(Faculty)
FE470: Training Levels -- Level 4
The Training Levels are a structu course designed to teach your dog the basic skills that every dog needs for success as a pet, sport, working dog, or all three. These classes teach the trainer how to tea...
Sue Ailsby(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)
FF470: Cookie Jar Games
The goal of Cookie Jar Games is to help your dog want to choose delayed gratification over immediate gratification. There are two Teaching Assistants to answer questions in the study group. This is a suppor...
Julie Daniels(Faculty)
Obedience
OB118: TEAM Sports Foundations Level Two
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 2. The TEAM program lays...
Laura Waudby(Faculty)
OB130: 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...
Heather Lawson(Faculty)
OB320: Obedience Starter Games
This class is a "prequel" to the popular OB330 Obedience Games class. This is not a skills class but designed to present many short, fun, and fast paced games for beginner competition obedience training...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
OB462: Shaping a Confident and Flashy Heel-Moving Foundations
My favorite way to teach heeling is to shape it! This class is the 2nd in a series of 3 (possibly 4!) and deals primarily with moving straight heel. We cover how to get attention 'walking backwa...
Shade Whitesel(Faculty)
OB590: Stand With Me
This course will focus on all things related to the stand behavior!!! We will look at teaching a stand, and getting ready for an exam whether that's in obedience, conformation, or even being measu for agi...
Laura Waudby(Faculty)
OB732: Handler Choice - August
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
DS380: Push it! Treibball Foundations and Problem Solving
Want to build your distance control and connection with your dog while participating in a great new sport? Or maybe you’ve always been fascinated by herding, but don’t have sheep. Check out Treibball! So...
Melissa Breau(Faculty)
DS440: Herding Handler's Choice
Sorry, this class will not run for the August Session - This class is a handler‘s choice class, which means the content will be driven by you, the student! As such, there is no specific curriculum for the cl...
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 (Guest Instructors)
RA511: Positions, Laterals and Backing
In Rally-FrEe and musical freestyle there are four primary positions: Left heel, right heel, standing center and behind facing the handler. While maintaining position, the dog is requi to move in any dire...
Julie Flanery(Faculty)
RA540: Joy of Heeling - Rock it like a Freestyler!
What is your ideal picture of beautiful heelwork? It likely includes words like precision and accuracy. Does it go beyond that to include enthusiasm, energy, lift, spark and joy? These are the attri...
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
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)
NW230: Polishing Skills for NW2 and NW3
NOTE: This class WILL emphasize training needs resulting from the revised NACSW rulebook for 2020 inculding Blank Search Areas Want to take your Nosework skills to the next level? This is the fourth ski...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW390: Nosework Games
This class will have a Teaching Assistant! :) My philosophy is that all training is a series of games. Your dog loves to play games with you, and eventually all the games come together for a perf...
Melissa Chandler(Faculty)
NW480: Searching Strategies: A Roadmap to Success
This class is all about a ROADMAP TO SUCCESS…. What does that mean? It means that we will delve into how to build an outstanding search dog and then how to trial effectively. This class has been developed...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
TR203: Tracking - Skill Building
This class will be a continuation of TR102. We will be focusing primarily on building upon the skills introduced in TR101 and 102 - increasing spacing of targets/articles, more fully developing turns and working ...
Lucy Newton(Faculty)
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