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Agility
AG110: Intro to Agility - Handling Basics
Are you familiar with dog sports but new to agility? Feel out of place in a beginner’s class but not sure where to learn the basics for this sport? Been in agility for awhile but feel like your founda...
Loretta Lake Mueller(Faculty)
AG230: The Tipping Point: Contacts and Teeters
This course will take you through the steps from start to finish to create the teeter performance you have always wanted through a series of fun games. We will also work through the Aframe and Dog W...
Barbara Currier(Faculty)
AG240: Foundation Weaves - Love Them and Flaunt Them
The goal of this course is for your dog to be able to weave 12 consecutive poles with confidence, accuracy, and joy. It is a good course for newcomers, for retraining dogs who have a problem, and for dogs...
Julie Daniels(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? Does he bark and lunge at people or dogs on walks? Does she seem generally stressed, whether frantic or quiet and vigilant? All of these common behaviors ...
Amy Cook(Faculty)
BH315: Hidden Potential: Tapping Your Reluctant Dog's Talents
This course is all about dogs that have been labeled as shut-down, down-stressors, shy, or low-drive. Dogs that run fast in training but slow in trials, dogs that have good days and bad ones, dogs that gi...
Sarah Stremming(Faculty)
BH325: Home Alone: Treating Separation Anxiety
This course is eligible for 21 CEUs with the CCPDT for training. Does your dog bark, whine, or howl when you leave the house? Does he scratch at the door or windows when he is left alone? Do you come home ...
Nancy Tucker(Faculty)
BH340: Arousal Layering Games
The sister course to Worked Up is here! Arousal Layering Games is a class designed to help you teach your dog how to think better under high levels of arousal. Worked Up is a suggested prerequisite for this...
Sarah Stremming(Faculty)
BH370: Feelings Change – Desensitization and Counter-conditioning
This course is eligible for 21 CEUs with the CCPDT for training. Learn the art and science of Desensitization and Counter-conditioning. Acquire skills that will allow you to help your dog develop a diminished or...
Nancy Tucker(Faculty)
BH510: The Biology of Building a Great Performance Dog
We all want to do everything we can to make our next performance dog be the very best she can be. This means not just being a good trainer, but making good decisions about where our dogs come from, based on a sol...
Jessica Hekman, DVM(Guest Instructors)
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)
CC160: Canine Sports Medicine for the Performance Dog Handler
There are many musculoskeletal injuries that can occur to performance dogs. Some are subtle and come on gradually. We are not really sure if there is something wrong. Some are acute and come on ...
Sue Yanoff, DVM(Guest Instructors)
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 four-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...
Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)
CC430: Helping Dogs Thrive: Massage for Performance Dogs
Course Description In this class you will learn about massaging your own dog. We will cover canine massage techniques, the muscles we are affecting with massage, muscle anatomy, assessment, palpation, fa...
Lori Stevens(Faculty)
FE238: Structure and Movement
What's in there anyway? Little wheels? Why is one dog graceful and another one clumsy? What's a fiddle front and why should you care? Will that puppy grow out of those cow hocks? Why DOES that dog walk si...
Sue Ailsby(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. ...
Deborah Jones(Faculty)Judy Keller(Faculty)
Electives
EL110: Beyond the Click: Adventures in +R2.0
Does your dog struggle with understanding what you're teaching? Do you have a lot of extraneous behaviours popping into your work, such as barking, spinning, sniffing, foot shuffling, or creative improvising? D...
Helene Lawler(Faculty)
FE195: Love the One You Are With - Being the Best Team Possible
Have you found yourself looking at your animal partner thinking "I don't much like you", "you aren't what I wanted" or wondering how to deal with a behaviour or personality that has caught you unawares? M...
Andrea Harrison(Faculty)
FE590: Out and About
This class is all about enjoying the time you spend out and about with your dog: urban walks, nature hikes, and going places. Whether you and your dog walk on leash, off leash, or on a long line, there are skills...
Chrissi Schranz(Faculty)
FE640: Compose the Dog - Photographic Composition
Compose the Dog is the class where the pieces start to come together. We take everything you know about exposure and post-processing and add a layer of "how to arrange all the things" and come out on the ...
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(Staff)
Foundations
FE101: Relationship Building Through Play
For some people - and dogs - play comes naturally. But did you know that good play is more than simply WANTING to interact with your dog? Good play requires the ability to engage with your canine companion on a l...
Denise Fenzi(Faculty)
FE105: Get Focused!
Do you struggle to keep your dog engaged and attentive in training? Does your dog find other dogs, people, or even smells on the floor more interesting than you? Do you have a dog that is great when he’s ...
Deborah Jones(Faculty)Judy Keller(Faculty)
FE115: Baby Genius
BABY GENIUS, by Julie Daniels COURSE DESCRIPTION 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...
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)
FE210: Shaping
There are three positive ways of getting a behavior - capturing, luring, and shaping. Of these, shaping is by far the most difficult - and the most fun. With shaping, you can literally teach your dog to p...
Sue Ailsby(Faculty)
FE340: Beyond the Basics: Shaping Advanced Skills
We hear it all the time! "Shaping is hard!" "Shaping is boring!" "I don't have the patience for shaping!" "My dog doesn't like shaping!" We totally disagree! Shaping is...
Deborah Jones(Faculty)Judy Keller(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)
Obedience
OB120: TEAM Sports Foundation - Level 3
Team 3!! This is where the real fun begins as you start to chain together the little pieces you learned in levels 1-2. Now the dog gets to really move and you can start to see real glimpses of the f...
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)
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)
OB185: Heeling: Power and Precision - Part Two
This class is part 2 of a 3 part series. How do you turn your foundation heeling behaviors into formal heeling? What cues and footwork do you need for a polished performance? In this class, we will ...
Hannah Branigan(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? This class will look at dogs gett...
Laura Waudby(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)
OB730: Handler Choice April
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
DS520: Gun Dog Foundations 2 - Retriever Training
If you want to compete in retriever hunt tests or train your own waterfowl hunting companion, then this course is for you. We will build on Gun Dog Foundations to give you the skill sets you will ne...
Cassia Turcotte(Faculty)
FF260: All Things Parkour
This class will cover International Dog Parkour levels training, novice, intermediate, expert and championship. It is designed for those new to parkour as well as those wanting to train the higher l...
Melissa Chandler(Faculty)
Freestyle
RA501: Rally-FrEe and Musical Freestyle Foundation Skills 1
Rally-FrEe is a unique sport with the structure of a Rally course and the creativity of Musical Freestyle. To learn more about Rally-FrEe, please visit www.rallyfree.com RA 501 is the first course o...
Julie Flanery(Faculty)
Scent Sports
N101M: NW101 - Introduction to Nosework
The instructors for this class change every session, please check the Schedule page for this session's instructor. Nosework is easily the hottest new sport around, and it’s easy to see why! It’s fun f...
Melissa Chandler(Faculty)
N120S: 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 detect...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW180: Developing Scent-sational Skills for Competition
You’ve learned the basics, even dabbled in some advanced skills but are you ready for competition? With so many scent detection organizations out there now (up to 11 and counting!) teams are entering competition ...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
NW370: Hide Placement for Powerful Training
Do you struggle with how to set hides? Do you accidentally overface your dog or make the hides too hard? Do you have structure to your training so that you thoughtfully build skills? Hav...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW510: Scent Puzzle Sampler
Do you struggle with having a plan for your training? Do want to "work on it all?" Do you need direction to decide what to train? This class will be a "sampler" of different scent puzzles... For ...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW620: Introduction to Handler Discrimination Scent Work
Want to learn a new aspect of scent detection sport training? In both UKC and the upcoming AKC program, there is a Handler Discrimination class where the handler's scent is the target odor. The UKC Hand...
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)
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 ...