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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)
AG235: Confident Crossing: The Art of the Front Cross
Front crosses are one of the most versatile and useful techniques on course! They also can be one of the more difficult and least natural techniques to execute effectively for both dog and handler. In this cours...
Bronagh Daly(Guest Instructors)
AG275: School of Fish- Part 2 Raising the Agility Dog
This course will cover everything I teach my agility dogs from 6-9 months of age. The order in which I teach things build on each other. This is also the same format I use when taking in a rescue or o...
Barbara Currier(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 Mueller(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)
BH290: Control Unleashed in the Big Wide World
This class assumes a beginner’s background in Control Unleashed patterns, either from Leslie McDevitt’s books, or from the CU Pattern Games class last term taught by Julie Daniels CCUI, or from another CU foundat...
Julie Daniels(Faculty)
BH405: Composed & Focused Around Critters
This class is for the dogs who just cannot ignore the scent, sight and/or sound of prey animals or birds, making walks with them difficult to enjoy. Prey drive is one of the fundamental parts of making dogs who t...
Tracey McLennan(Guest Instructors)
Body, Health & Fitness
CC290: Dogs With Long Backs - Things You Need To Do
Long backs in dogs come in many shapes and sizes. There are many long backed breeds, such as Daschunds, Corgis, Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, and many more. Thee are also many breeds th...
Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)
EL830: Prevent & Perform: Couch to 5K for the Handler
Have you struggled with starting a running routine only to be sidelined by injuries or a lack of motivation? Imagine transforming your running experience with expert guidance that helps you prevent injuries and s...
Liz Joyce(Faculty)
Electives
FE640: Compose the Dog - Photographic Composition
Does this feel familiar? You open up Facebook or Instagram and start scrolling, barely giving the photos a glance as they flash by. But every once in a while, you come across a photo so compelling that ...
Amy Johnson(Faculty)
FE655: Enhance the Dog: Advanced Photo Composition
Enhance your photographs and bring out their true potential using the key features and advanced techniques in Lightroom and Photoshop. Learn how to create compelling compositions that draw the view...
Amy Johnson(Faculty)
FF210: Brain Benders - Cognition & Thinking Games
Are you overwhelmed trying to come up with or at a loss for new ideas to stimulate your furry friend’s little mind? Is the weather too hot or miserable outside but your dog has too much energy to stay inside? Wel...
Heather Lawson(Faculty)
RA590: Tricked into Freestyle: From Foundation to Fantastic!
Are you ready to add some paw-zazz to your trick training? Ti of the same old tricks of spins and weaves? Let’s kick it up a notch! We’ll take the basics and transform them into an array of awesome tricks and beh...
Julie Flanery(Faculty)
Foundations
FE145: First Things First - Puppy Foundations for a Bright Future
First Things First is the new puppy owner's guide to building strong skills and social behaviors -right from the start! With a progression based on my board-and-train puppy program, this s...
Erin Lynes(Faculty)
FE405: Thriving Under Pressure
There is no escaping it. Our dogs will be under pressure in the ring. So let’s prepare them for it! Many people are not aware that the majority of errors in the ring are the result of some sort ...
Petra Ford(Faculty)
FF100: Fully Focused
What’s the secret to fun and success in dog training? Focus! But it’s not what you might think it is… Helping your dog become an enthusiastic working partner is about much more than training yo...
Deborah Jones(Faculty)Judy Keller(Faculty)
FF110: Pay to Play: Using Food to Get Great Toy Play
Do you have a dog that plays great at home but ignores the toy in public? Is your dog lacking confidence in tug or gets distracted in fetch? Or a dog that gets too excited about toys and struggles to focus on wor...
Sara Brueske(Faculty)
FF145: Food Cues and Markers: Powerful Reinforcement for Clean Training
Are you finding yourself confused by all the new marker cues for everything? Toss, X, Yes, Sniff, Scatter, it’s hard to keep them all straight and your head is going to explode! What is the big deal anyway?...
Shade Whitesel(Faculty)
FF155: Go Ahead, Motivate Me! Engagement for the Differently Motivated Dog
The types of dogs that will be best suited to joining us in this class are those that are naturally quite independent, appear to have very little interest in “work”, appear to have a very short attention-span whe...
Sharon Carroll(Faculty)
FF320: Better Still: Stays Without Frustration
Are you frustrated with your dog constantly offering behaviors when you're trying to teach them to stay still? Welcome to "Better Still: Stays Without Frustration," a class designed for dogs who thrive on activit...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
Obedience
OB115: TEAM Sports Foundations - Level One
Interested in obedience or rally? This isn't a class full of heeling around in circles. Learn about using foot targets, fancy pivoting, teach scent articles, an independent back up, and start a go out! &n...
Laura Waudby(Faculty)
OB340: Strike a Pose: Fabulous Positions!
You enter your sport ring/field, dog heeling by your side. When the exercise comes, you leave them on a specific position and walk away. You cue each position change, and your dog executes them perfectly with paw...
Shade Whitesel(Faculty)
OB365: Open Obedience Fun - Putting the Pieces Together
Open IS fun!! In this class, I deconstruct all the exercises into manageable pieces. Each piece is taught and maintained like a trick. This makes the exercises accessible for us and the dogs. Your dogs ...
Petra Ford(Faculty)
OB485: Step it Up: Advanced Heeling for Competition
In this class we will be challenging the dog AND handler to step up their game! We will use fun games to build and maintain drive, engagement and precision. When heeling is well-trained, the majority of points lo...
Petra Ford(Faculty)
OB580: Articles from the Ground Up
Intimated by learning scent articles?! This class will guide you step by step with zero experience requi! Scent articles looks super impressive but is a relatively easy skill for the dogs to learn! And per...
Laura Waudby(Faculty)
OB820: Control Games: Secondary Obedience for Protection Sports
While the most fun part of protection sports is the biting part, there is a lot of control work that needs to be done to do the protection exercises effectively. Secondary obedience (obedience in the presence of ...
Sara Brueske(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)
DS500: Retriever Sports Blind Retrieves - Start and Build Your Skills
This course is about how to train your dog to perform blind retrieves for Retriever sports, like AKC Retriever Hunt Tests, Field Trials and HRC tests. Have you ever tried to run a blind, just HOPING your dog wou...
Jennifer Henion(Guest Instructors)
Rally & Freestyle
RA260: Get Ready to Rally - Foundation Skills
Welcome to the exciting world of Rally! In this course, we will guide you through the essential skills requi for each Novice sign. From sits and downs to fronts, finishes, turns, and short heeling segments, we'll...
Nicole Wiebusch (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 attributes th...
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 all types of dogs, from insecure and unfocused dogs...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
NW205: Creating Clarity with Contrasts
Nosework was originally developed as an enrichment activity and quickly grew into one of the fastest growing dog sports. While therapeutic in nature, it also requires skillful training and handling. Training wit...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
NW265: Nosework Small Space Skill Up
Too hot to go train? Or maybe you are just short on time? This class is about leveraging YOUR HOME to train your nosework dog. We will spend six weeks working on pieces of the puzzle that will s...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW380: Developing your Trial IQ - Reading the Nosework Dog
This class is ALL ABOUT figuring out how to be prepa for a trial and learning the #1 most important skill in nosework... READING YOUR DOG! This class will give you the nuances that you need to...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW425: Mastering Scent Puzzles
Nose work is a series of puzzles our dogs must navigate and work to locate source. The more puzzles and setups that our dogs can be exposed to and learn to work efficiently, the more prepa they will be for ...
Melissa Chandler(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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