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Agility
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
BH150: Management for Reactive Dogs
https://youtu.be/tNKvwjofJ8U Ti of "just managing" your lungy barky dog in the moment? You can AMP up your management with an Active Management Plan! Don't improvise, don't "make it up ...
Amy Cook, PhD(Faculty)
BH255: I CU in the Real World: Advancing Your Control Unleashed Skills
Ready to take your CU skills on the road? Welcome to I CU in the Real World: Advancing Your Control Unleashed Skills! This class will build on all previous CU classes. Gold students will have the opport...
Kim Palermo(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
CC205: Targeting Fitness
Want to start fitness using targeting? Maybe fine tune your dog’s fitness skills to uce your dogs luring during exercises. This class is for you! This class will teach a variety of targeting skills including fro...
Kelly Daniel(Faculty)
CC260: Those Bum Knees
Knee problems are incibly common in dogs. Whether the dog is a top level athlete or a professional cookie catcher at home, the knee is one of the weakest links. Cruciate disease, ACL or CCL problems a...
Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)
EL840: Get Going Gently: Handler Fitness 10-Minute Daily Reset
Starting a fitness journey can feel overwhelming — especially if it seems like everyone else is already ten steps ahead. This course was designed to meet you exactly where you are. Is this you? You want to fe...
Liz Joyce(Faculty)
Electives
FE525: Managing Multi-Dog Mayhem
Multiple dogs can create some interesting training challenges! This class is designed to give you the tools to make a multi dog household a peaceful and productive place. In this class, we will cover...
Loretta Mueller(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)
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(Faculty)
Foundations
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 say? Is ...
Shade Whitesel(Faculty)
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)
FF145: Food Cues and Markers: Powerful Reinforcement for Clean Training
Is your dog barking at you, demanding that you get that treat out of your pocket NOW? Easily frustrated, skyrocketing into arousal and unable to think about anything but the food in your hand? Or, are they easil...
Shade Whitesel(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
OB205: Optimizing Arousal for Learning and Competition
Understanding and managing your dog’s drive state/arousal level is a critical component of training and trialing successfully. It is very difficult and uncomforle for a dog to learn and compete in a state o...
Petra Ford(Faculty)
OB225: Competition Heeling Part Two - Skills & Engagement
Heeling requires significant concentration and sustained focus to maintain position, focal point and engagement. Heeling is easily the most difficult obedience exercise. When trained properly, it is a ...
Petra Ford(Faculty)
OB425: From TEAM to Trials: Building Skills & Chains for the Open Ring
Obedience can be fun!! Even if you are just starting your journey and think that getting past novice sounds like a pipedream, you want to start this class! Get unstuck from the boring stuff in novice ...
Laura Waudby(Faculty)
Other Dog Sports
DS150: The Power of Pulling - Introduction to Dog Powered Sports
Got a dog with “big dog energy” (whether or not they’re a big dog)? Looking for an outlet? Or, maybe your dog needs more exercise but cannot be off-leash. Dog-powe sports allow your dog to expel more energ...
Erin Lynes(Faculty)
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)
Rally & Freestyle
RA330: Movin' On Up: Skills and Signs for Master Rally
Did you know you can go from novice to the master class in just 9 runs? It happens so fast! Are you a little intimidated by the master signs, with all those spins, sends, and signals? Don’t be! The r...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
RA500: Foundation Skills for Rally-FrEe and Musical Freestyle
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 Each sport has its own set of foundation ...
Julie Flanery(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)
NW200: Are You Trial Ready? Trial Preparation for Nosework Teams
So you’ve been training hard at this sport and want to go out and test your skills. You’ve heard all about howfoundations are critical to success. You don’t know if you have them or how to go about getting ready ...
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)
NW720: Find It! - Lost Item Recovery
Want to learn about a new scent organization and play more scent games with your dog? Teaching scent detection is one of my specialties and an area I'm truly passionate about. Lost Item Recovery is one of the tr...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
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