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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 Mueller(Faculty)
AG200: Foundation Jumping for All Sports
If you want to do dog sports then you’ll want a variety of foundation skills. One of the most critical of these skills is teaching your dog to jump! If you hold your breath while your dog throws themselves at ob...
Loretta Mueller(Faculty)
AG205: Creating Confident Commitment
Commitment in agility is one of the building blocks of a great team. A higher level of commitment from your dog allows you to trust them to do their job and you can better help them to understand thei...
Laurie Huston(Guest Instructors)
AG220: Building and Maintaining Stopped Contacts
Many dogs start their agility career with good stopped contact performance. But over time, the behavior or the criteria changes and morphs into something undesirable. What causes that to happen? This cla...
Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)
Behavior
BH110: Dealing with the Bogeyman: Helping Reactive and Fearful Dogs - The Play Way!
This is Amy's signature Play Way class! 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 ...
Amy Cook, PhD(Faculty)
BH190: Adolescent Minds and Manners
In dogs, adolescence starts anywhere between 6 and 12 months and typically ends somewhere between 18 months and 24 months, but can extend until much later in some dogs. Adolescence is accompanied by physical chan...
Julie Daniels(Faculty)Sharon Carroll(Faculty)
BH335: Dealing With Feelings: Applied Counterconditioning and Desensitization
Whether your dog is having problems in the ring or struggling in daily life, the key to addressing problematic behaviour can be understanding and improving the dog’s emotional state. That's where countercondition...
Irith Bloom(Guest Instructors)
BH430: Success With Sensitive Dogs
Do you have a Sensitive Dog? One who shuts down, quits, goes sniffing, freezes, or just plain wilts like an unwate plant at the slightest perceived pressure? Or perhaps your dog gets worked up: Barking, zoomies,...
Helene Lawler(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. In addi...
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)
CC300: Getting Geeky About Fitness
This class is an intensive dive into the geeky side of Canine Fitness and Conditioning training. We’ll look at relevant biology and biomechanics, anatomy and physiology terms, relevant training theory and applica...
Kelly Daniel(Guest Instructors)
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
EL800: Unlock Your Handling Potential: Handler Fitness 101
Are you done with struggling to keep up with your active dog during competitions or in life? Do you want to improve your scores and have more fun? Are you looking for a way to give back to yourself AND multitask ...
Liz Joyce(Faculty)
FE600: Shoot the Dog!
Did you get a new camera and aren’t sure how to take photos of your dog that aren’t one big blur? Do you want to get out of Auto mode on your expensive camera and learn to use its fancy features? ...
Amy Johnson(Faculty)
FE660: Chase the Dog - Photographing Dogs in Motion
Are you frustrated with blurry or poorly lit photos of your energetic pup? Photographing dogs in action can be a challenging task, but with the right techniques and tools, it can also be incibly rewarding. I...
Amy Johnson(Faculty)
Foundations
FE175: School of Fish - Raising a Performance Puppy
This course will cover everything I teach my performance dogs when they come home at 8 weeks until around 6 months of age. The order in which I teach things build on each other. This is also the same ...
Barbara Currier(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? Do you want to learn how to effectively rewa...
Caden Cristopher (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)
FE420: Bye, Bye Cookie: Hello Delayed Reinforcement!
Do you struggle to get your dog's attention without a cookie (or toy!) in your hand? Are you ti of your dog only responding to a cue until you reach into your pocket? &nbs...
Laura Waudby(Faculty)
FE455: Beyond the Backyard: Distraction Training for Competition and Real Life!
Would you consider your dog easily distracted? Is he/she captivated by squirrels, tempting food on the ground, the allure of people, or the excitement of other dogs? If you're yearning for unwaverin...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
FF115: Control Games for All the Sports
This course utilizes games to help teach your dog focus and self control with a focus on sport behaviors. Start line stays, working around distractions and choosing to focus on the handler are some of the g...
Sara Brueske(Faculty)
FF150: Greet Expectations: The Art of the Polite Hello!
Is your dog TOO friendly? Over-excited, jumpy, and perhaps even a little unwittingly rude with how eagerly they greet you, other family members, or strangers? If you’ve found yourself wishing that y...
Erin Lynes(Faculty)
Obedience
OB120: TEAM Sports Foundation - Level Three
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)
OB355: Open Foundation Fun!
Open Obedience Foundation Fun! It’s time to move away from thinking of obedience as serious. An open run is really just a long chain of pet tricks! Breaking the exercises into small pieces and teaching eac...
Petra Ford(Faculty)
OB460: Shaping a Flashy and Confident Heel - Foundations
Do you have “heeling envy”? Do you see all those prancing dogs in perfect position looking up at their handlers and wish you could teach your dog THAT? Does your dog love the pivot platform, but how DO you get fr...
Shade Whitesel(Faculty)
OB480: Train to Trial
How do I get the same performance in training and in the ring? That is one of the most common challenges in competitive sports. It is something everyone struggles with. “My dog ONLY does that in...
Petra Ford(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)
Other Dog Sports
DS110: Dryland Dock Diving Training- Foundation, Fitness and Fixes!
Are you interested in dock diving and want to give your dog a great foundation before you even hit the pool? Or perhaps you’ve been to the pool with your dog and things didn’t go as well as you expected. OR...
Erin Lynes(Faculty)
DS340: Disc Dog - Handler's Choice
Disc dog is an amazing sport that has a variety of elements suile for any toy-driven dog. This hybrid “handler’s choice” course will allow each team to work on the aspects of disc dog that suit them best but will...
Sara Brueske(Faculty)
Rally & Freestyle
RA320: Rally: Beyond the Basics
Your dog has great rally skills in your living room, but now you’re not sure what to do next! How do you progress toward your goals? What’s involved in going from your small training area to an en...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
RA550: Transitions and Flow - Creating Effective Sequences for Musical Freestyle Routines
Have you ever watched a freestyle performance that mesmerized you? Not because the dog was performing a lot of difficult or fancy tricks or because the handler had a great costume and danced well, b...
Julie Flanery(Faculty)
Scent Sports
N101M: NW101 - Introduction to Nosework
Nosework is easily one of the hottest new sports around and continues to grow by leaps and bounds. And it is easy to see why! It’s fun for humans, dogs love to participate, and it’s good for buil...
Melissa Chandler(Faculty)
N120S: NW120 - Introduction to NW Search Elements
Did you know that the MOST important time in a dog's early career in Nosework happens AFTER they learn target odor (as in NW101) and BEFORE they start their general searching? Making mistakes now are costly. &nbs...
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)
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)
NW525: Achievement Unlocked: Success at the Upper Levels
You've found yourself at the upper levels and now it gets complicated! Search areas get bigger and more challenigng. Times get tighter. Maybe you have more hides but maybe the area is blank? &nb...
Stacy Barnett(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 ...
Lucy Newton(Faculty)
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