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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)
AG225: LOVE’EM From the Start: Foundation Weaves
Teach your dog to love the weaves right from the beginning. This course will not only create the drive and love for the weave poles but to nail those entries and hang on to their poles even at speed. ...
Barbara Currier(Faculty)
AG245: You've Been Framed: Running A-frame Training
This class is for building a clear and confident running aframe performance. Regardless of your skill level, this class is for building a clear and confident running aframe performance. Regardless of your dog’s a...
Megan Foster(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 with you...
Loretta Mueller(Faculty)
Behavior
BH150: Management for Reactive Dogs
https://youtu.be/tNKvwjofJ8U Management for reactive dogs... and excited dogs, fearful dogs, worried dogs, reluctant dogs, anxious dogs, and any dog having trouble with environmental challenges both insi...
Amy Cook, PhD(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 training, work, and sport. ...
Helene Lawler(Faculty)
Body, Health & Fitness
CC280: Preventing and Addressing the Iliopsoas
Iliopsoas injuries are unfortunately becoming a fact in many performance dogs' lives, as well as the lives of active dogs. This course will review the reasons why so many dogs are suffering from ili...
Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)
Electives
FE375: Is This It? Match To Sample
Can your dog pick out the identical matching item you're holding or pick out an item from a pile that you've previously touched? Ever wonde just how far you can go in stretching your dog’s cognitive abilities? In...
Heather Lawson(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)
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)
FF410: Cognitive Challenges: The Key to How Your Dog Thinks
A creative class developed by Barbara Lloyd to test your dog’s ability problem solve. This class is suile for puppies and dogs all the way up to adulthood. For puppies in particular, this class wo...
Barbara Lloyd(Guest Instructors)
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 class is de...
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)
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)
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)
FF160: The PROOF is in the Training: Building Strong Behaviors
Consistent. Reliable. Confident. We’ve all seen those dogs who seem to have a perfect understanding of the job they’re being asked to do — whether in the obedience ring, working as a therapy dog, or that g...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
RA560: Shape Up - Improving and Maintaining Your and Your Dog's Shaping Skills
Both dog and handler’s shaping skills can deteriorate when not used regularly. In training, many of us focus on specific sports. Each sport has its own set of skills that we work to train to fluency in ou...
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)
OB285: From TEAM to Trials: Building Chains for the Novice Ring
This class will teach you how to take your TEAM foundations skills in levels 1 & 2 and use those to create the formal chains used in trials. We will be looking specifically at the exercises at the novic...
Laura Waudby(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)
OB445: Proof Positive for Open and Utility
Proofing is and should be fun! Proofing is an important aspect of training that strengthens dogs’ understanding of the exercise and prepares them for the demands of the ring. Proofing also improves their focus an...
Petra Ford(Faculty)
OB525: Polished and Precise Heeling
Heeling is the most complex exercise in competition obedience. It consists of many components including focal point, position, engagement and managing pressure. Heeling requires enormous concentration...
Petra Ford(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)
OB600: Healing Your Heeling Handling
This course is designed for experienced handlers as well as new obedience handlers that know nothing about the finer points of handling during heeling in obedience. Dogs make mistakes in heeling when they are no...
Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)
Rally & Freestyle
RA260: Get Ready to Rally - Foundation Skills
Welcome to the world of Rally! In this course we will break down and teach the skills for each Novice sign, including halts and sits, fronts, finishes, turns, short heeling segments, and more! &nb...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
RA600: Handler's Choice for Freestylers
In this course, dog-and-handler teams will be able to work on whatever areas they feel could use a bit of coaching or guidance. Are you feeling like you aren’t progressing in a skill or behavior? ...
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
This course picks up where NW101 left off! This course also can be used as a refresher for introducing the search elements. Our method is effective on almost all dogs, from insecure and unfocused dogs t...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
N130M: NW130 - Developing Advanced Nosework Skills
Want to continue the Nosework fun? Then this class is for you! This is the third skills level course in our nosework program and will build on the skills ...
Melissa Chandler(Faculty)
NW330: Bulletproof Skills for Both Ends of the Leash
This class is about going from Good to Better and Better to Bulletproof for all of those skills that can give a team a competitive edge. This is the "Soft Skills" of Nosework... for both ends of the leash! ...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW345: Container Wizardry: Fixes, Proofs, and Results
This class is about creating the AMAZING Container Dog... Containers are tough in that they really are NOT a searching exericse... they are a Selection exercise. That means that we can get all sorts...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW385: Ambitious Drills for Analyzing Skills
This is the third class in my popular Drills and Skills series. With all training we need to maintain skills, progress skills, and then be a little more ambitious to try something more difficult! Our dogs are ama...
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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