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Agility
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)
AG500: Agility Problem Solving
Have a stubborn agility problem? Weaves? Teeter issues? Can't master a front cross? Need help smoothing out your handling on courses? We've got a great option for you! T...
Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)
Behavior
BH150: Management for Reactive Dogs
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 up ideal conditions, but real ...
Amy Cook(Faculty)
BH300: Worked Up! Understand, assess, and soothe arousal in sport dogs
This class is all about dogs that are over-stressed, over-aroused, over-adrenalized, and just plain over the top. Help your dog give his true performance in the ring by helping him be in a healthy state of arousa...
Sarah Stremming(Faculty)
BH330: Fix It: Effective Behavior Change
Do behavior problems freak you out? Have you ever thought "I wish I could fix that" about a nuisance behavior your dog exhibits? Do the intricacies of behavior modification overwhelm you, though you feel ...
Sarah Stremming(Faculty)
Body, Health & Fitness
CC110: K9 Conditioning
This course will give you an understanding of basic dog anatomy, basic conditioning for dogs, and general exercises. We'll work on conditioning exercises, endurance exercises, and strengthening exercises....
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 ...
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
FE293: Tough Enough - Handling Difficult People with Grace
This course is for you - about you - and designed to meet your needs. Trailer Emotional resilience is a skill that can be developed but it is often not easy or intuitive. Learn to identify your t...
Andrea Harrison(Faculty)
FE345: Imitation and Mimicry - You Can Do It
Are you ready for the next step in your journey with your dog? Are you ready to communicate in a way few have explo? You’ve heard of it! You know you want to do it! You can! And so can your dog! &nb...
Julie Flanery(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 CC, but it is also possible to use Adobe Photoshop Bridge instead. Post-...
Amy Johnson(Faculty)
FE680: See the Dog: Developing Your Photographic Vision
This photography class will be unlike any of my other courses. We will combine all of our knowledge — how to use a camera, how to set exposure, how to compose an image, how to process an image — and use it to cre...
Amy Johnson(Faculty)
FF230: Tricks with a Purpose
There are so many reasons why training tricks are beneficial to your dog, yourself and your relationship, tricks aren’t just for entertainment or rainy days anymore! Teaching tricks not only help our dogs learn h...
Sara Brueske(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)
FE140: Engagement
The question we ask the dog will always be the same: Do you care enough about what we do together to ask for interaction? Because engagement is easily turned to work, we can also ask: Will you ask to work with m...
Denise Fenzi(Faculty)
FE155: Crucial Concepts of Competition - Shaping/Luring/Capturing and More!
This is the class where the human half of the team learns! No matter what level your dog is at, this class is for you to learn more about teaching and training in general. Clear timing, clear mechanics, kn...
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. I developed this class because I want to teach handlers how to ask these questions of their dogs in every environment they exp...
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)
FE420: Bye, Bye Cookie: Hello Delayed Reinforcement!
Does your dog seem to forget what sit means until you reach into your pocket? Do you struggle to get your dog's focus without a cookie in your hand? T...
Laura Waudby(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)
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)
FF280: Empowerment
A Course for Expanding your dog's Personal Power Can your dog use some help with the physical and mental challenges of your favorite sport? Would you like for your dog to enjoy more activities with you? ...
Julie Daniels(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)
OB180: Heeling: Power and Precision - Part One
This class will build your heeling skills from the ground up. From weight shift to head position, we will shape each component skill necessary for powerful and precise heeling. Each skill is taught separately, ou...
Hannah Branigan(Faculty)
OB540: Shaping the Competition Retrieve
In this class we will work through all the steps and fine details requi to develop a precise and reliable competition-level dumbbell/scent article/glove retrieve. We will use shaping, rather than play, as the ba...
Deborah Jones(Faculty)Judy Keller(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 handl...
Kamal Fernandez(Faculty)
Other Dog Sports
DS510: Gun Dog Foundations
Have you ever wanted to try gun dog sports with your dog or have a new puppy, but didn’t know how to get started? Now you can learn how by using games, shaping, and play to explore necessary foundat...
Cassia Turcotte(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 is the third skills level course in our nosework program and will build on the skills acqui ...
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)
NW243: Nosework Challenges Series 4
This is the fourth in a series focused on Skill Building by working through a set of challenges each week. We will stretch our skills and comfort zones using drills and exercises gea towards improving the...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW350: More Proofing and Generalization for All Levels
Do you want to make your team the best you can be? The key to success in Nosework is in Generalization and Proofing. This course isn’t a skills based course although skills will be enhanced an...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW460: Woulda Shoulda Coulda – Learning from Trial Experiences
How often have you thought or said: "I would have passed if I didn't do X or placed if I did Y". What we really need to be thinking is what can we learn from what happened so that we can recover and impro...
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...