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Agility
AG120: Agility Basics 2
This course builds on the agility handling moves we learned in AG110: Intro to Agility. Now we will begin to put these handling maneuvers into small sequences using combinations of 3 jumps and a tunnel. We will a...
Loretta Mohler(Faculty)
AG245: You've Been Framed: Running A-frame Training
This class is for building a clear and confident running aframe performance. Regardless of your skill level, this class is for building a clear and confident running aframe performance. Regardless of your dog’s a...
Megan Foster(Faculty)
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)
Behavior
BH150: Management for Reactive Dogs
https://youtu.be/tNKvwjofJ8U Management for reactive dogs... and excited dogs, fearful dogs, worried dogs, reluctant dogs, anxious dogs, and any dog having trouble with environmental challenges both insi...
Amy Cook(Faculty)
BH270: Build Your Bond - Relationship Walks
Did you know that every time you take your dog out for a walk, you could be building on your connection? Learn some simple ways to maximize your time improving fluency and generalizing behaviors for competi...
Donna Hill(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 comforle...
Sarah Stremming(Faculty)
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)
CC180: Powerful Performance: Personalized Fitness to Optimize All Sports
Many people don’t understand the importance of conditioning until their dog has suffe an injury. They feel that participating in dog sports IS conditioning. That couldn’t be further from the...
Petra Ford(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 an...
Debbie (Gross) Torraca(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. Captive ...
Deborah Jones(Faculty)Judy Keller(Faculty)
Electives
FE290: Handle This - make the most of goals, planning and learning
This course has been revamped and revised to include Andrea's Think, Plan, Do Plus model. A variety of goal setting techniques are cove as well as tips to help with making the most of your learning preferences, n...
Andrea Harrison(Guest Instructors)
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)
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 Mohler(Faculty)
FE540: Knock-knock: From Chaos to Calm
Fewer visitors right now? Great! It's the perfect time to work on your dog's door-greeting manners, because current social conditions allow you to have far more control over the stimuli that set your dog off.&nbs...
Nancy Tucker(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 ...
Shade Whitesel(Faculty)
FE315: Are You Ready? Trial Preparation for Competition
Are you thinking about competing? You have been taking some dog sport classes and are thinking it might be fun to try a competition and see what it is all about. Great! What do you do next? How do you even ...
Ann Smorado(Guest Instructors)
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)
FE425: Teenage Tyrants: Surviving Your Dog's Adolescence
You had a really cute puppy. Now you have a tyrant! Leg-lifting, humping, newfound reactive behaviors, and just plain naughtiness abounds in the 6 month to 2 year range. In this class you'll learn to head off pote...
Sarah Stremming(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)Heather Lawson(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! You can nurture your dog's natural curiosity and optimism toward the big wide world. There will also be not one but TWO Teaching Assistants in the study gro...
Julie Daniels(Faculty)
Obedience
OB140: From Pivots to Practical Heeling
If you feel overwhelmed when you think about teaching your dog to heel or you simply don’t know where to start, this is the class for you. Instead of obsessing about every little detail (also a wonderful path for...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
OB330: Obedience Games
If you like to think of training as a game, then this is the class for you! If you have a busy schedule and are always on the go and finding your obedience training taking a back seat - come play and see h...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
OB380: Unstick the Stuck Heeling: What's Keeping you from Trialing?
Are you and your dog struggling with heeling? Do you and your dog have nice heeling when you train, but the performance falls apart when you leave the comfort of home? Have you been stuck with the same problem fo...
Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)
OB425: From TEAM to Trials: Building Chains for the Open Ring
This class will teach you how to take your TEAM foundations skills in levels 1 & 2 and use those to create the formal chains used in trials. We will be looking specifically at the exercises in Open leve...
Laura Waudby(Faculty)
OB580: Articles from the Ground Up
This class will lay out a plan for teaching scent articles. Step-by-step, it will guide those who have not yet begun training and for those stuck on how to progress. We will discuss using a food bas...
Laura Waudby(Faculty)
OB733: Handler Choice - October
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)
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
DS150: The Power of Pulling - Introduction to Dog Powered Sports
This class will introduce you and your dog to dog-powe sports and prepare you both for the joy and excitement that working together can bring! Maybe you already hit the trails for walks, and now are looking for a...
Erin Lynes(Guest Instructors)
Rally & Freestyle
RA285: Putting it All Together: Rally Courses for All Levels
Do things fall apart when you attempt an entire rally course with your dog? Does your dog start off doing great, but lose focus as you continue through the course? Do you struggle with stayi...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
RA511: Positions, Laterals and Backing
In Rally-FrEe and musical freestyle there are four primary positions: Left heel, right heel, standing center and behind facing the handler. While maintaining position, the dog is requi to move in any dire...
Julie Flanery(Faculty)
Scent Sports
N101M: 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 s...
Melissa Chandler(Faculty)
N120S: NW120 - Introduction to NW Search Elements
NOTE: NW120S has been restructu in order to allow students from NW101 to catch up as needed with the help of either the Instructor (for Gold Spots) or the Teaching Assistant (for Silver & Bronze Spots). Dogs ...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
N130J: 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 nose/scent work program and will build on the skills acqui in the pr...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
NW150: Scent Theory and Dynamics
There are a wide variety of sports and tasks that require the dog to use his nose and sense of smell to be successful: Tracking. Nosework. Truffle hunting. Barn hunt. Scent Discrimination. In all these venues, as...
Lucy Newton(Faculty)
NW340: The Four Cornerstones of Trial Preparation
What are the Four Cornerstones of Trial Preparation? Quite simply they are: Confidence, Motivation, Skills and Stamina. This is the "secret sauce" to developing a successful Nosework teammate....
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW465: Making the Inaccessible Hide Easy
Inaccessible hides require the handler and dog to demonstrate increased trust and communication in order to call alert confidently. Being sure enough to call Alert gets more and more challenging the deeper or the...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
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