Fenzi Dog Sports Academy - Course Schedule

June 1, 2022

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)

AG190: The Glue for Future Agility Stars

This course is different than most agility foundation classes. Rather than introducing obstacle and flatwork skills needed to run an agility course, this class lays out the critical skills (the glue) that your do...

Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)

AG330: Agility Drills for Better Timing

This class will focus on that ever illusive TIMING that everyone talks about. What does your instructor mean when they say "You are LATE...AGAIN"? When exactly does YOUR dog need the info to turn, to go straight...

Loretta Mohler(Faculty)

AG400: Smooth Moves: Adding the Dog to Your Agility Handler Mechanics

This class introduces handling techniques to your dogs, then proofs them and progresses them into short sequences. We will begin with the key skills Megan believes dogs need before sequencing should begin: commit...

Megan Foster(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)

BH160: Sound Advice: Conquering Noise Sensitivity

Is your dog worried about the noises around her? This class is for you! Whether the issue is in your house with your dog barking at the sounds outside, or you have a dog that can't go out because buildi...

Amy Cook(Faculty)

BH265: Strategies for Training and Competing the Sensitive Dog

This class is best suited to dogs that perform the following behaviors in training, in competition, or in specific situations: slowing, freezing, losing focus, appearing “disinterested”, becoming unresponsi...

Sharon Carroll(Faculty)

BH285: Control Unleashed Pattern Games for Sports and Life Skills

This class is for dogs who have trouble with the environmental conditions they meet in their life with you. Is your dog aroused by other dogs, afraid of new people, stimulated by motion, or anxious ab...

Julie Daniels(Faculty)

Body, Health & Fitness

CC280: Preventing and Addressing the Iliopsoas

Iliopsoas injuries are unfortunately becoming a fact in many performance dogs' lives, as well as the lives of active dogs. This course will review the reasons why so many dogs are suffering from ili...

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 an...

Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)

Electives

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 have a black dog that seems to become a black hole in every photo you take? ...

Amy Johnson(Faculty)

FE660: Chase the Dog - Photographing Dogs in Motion

This is a course about photographing moving subjects, whether it be dogs, birds, or tractors. There are no FDSA prerequisites for this class. However, this is an advanced photography class and not intended...

Amy Johnson(Faculty)

FE780: Business End of the Dog - Building a Wordpress Website

A website is often the first impression your future customers will have of you and what you do! This class will help you build a first-in-class website for your dog business — good for trainers, breeders, or any ...

Melissa Breau(Faculty)

FE790: Building a Website Advanced: Handler’s Choice

Have you taken Melissa's class on building a website and found... you want more? In Building a Website Advanced: Handler’s Choice we'll take a look at a few of the most common additions students want to ma...

Melissa Breau(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

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)

FE155: Crucial Concepts of Competition - Shaping/Luring/Capturing and More!

Got a new puppy? A new sport prospect for the sport of your choice? Got future plans but no idea how to start? Which behavior DO you start with? Got a pet dog and discove how fun teaching is? Interested i...

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

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)

FE205: Focus Games

Focus: everyone wants it! But do you know how to get it? This course will help you develop basic focus and a great working relationship using a variety of games that both you and your canine partner will...

Deborah Jones(Faculty)Judy Keller(Faculty)

FE518: Loose Leash Walkers Anonymous

Are you ti of being dragged everywhere you go with your dog? Sore shoulders and back? Time to join Loose Leash Walkers Anonymous then and get started on a more pleasurable walking journey with your dog...

Heather Lawson(Faculty)

FE545: May the reinforce be with you!

Starting from the assumption that reinforcers are behaviors rather than things, and can be trained, put on (marker) cue, proofed, and generalized like any other behavior, we will explore a large variety o...

Chrissi Schranz(Faculty)

Obedience

OB160: Ring Confidence for Obedience, Rally, and Agility

This course is officially expanded to include agility as well as obedience and rally! Most handlers spend months or even years teaching their dogs the specific exercises and obstacle performa...

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

OB205: Creating Optimal Drive State 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)

OB215: Competition Heeling Part One - Fundamentals

Great heeling is a pleasure to watch. Dog and handler moving together as one. The dog is happy, animated, joyful and confident. Heeling is a dance that should express joy and teamwork. How do you accomplish...

Petra Ford(Faculty)

OB390: Picture Perfect Positions for Obedience, Rally, and More!

Sit! Down! Stand! Does your sport require position changes either in heel, front, or both? How about moving positions? This class will cover it all! If you want quick responsiv...

Nicole Wiebusch (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)

OB731: Handler Choice - June

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)

OB800: Mondioring OB: All-Breed Obedience

Mondioring Obedience is a fun new obedience venue cate to all breeds! Based on real-life challenges and working under distraction, Mondioring takes familiar obedience exercises to a new level. With the devel...

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

Other Dog Sports

DS320: Disc Dog - Strategies for Strategy Games

Strategy games are the new upcoming trend in the Disc Dog world. Skyhoundz Disc Dogathon and UpDog Challenge have created new innovative challenges to test the skills of disc dog teams. This course ...

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

Rally & Freestyle

RA280: Get Ready to Rally: Get in the Ring!

Imagine this… It’s your first time in the Novice Rally ring with your dog. You walk into the ring and you feel confident — you just know that both you and your dog are fully prepa for this moment. You set up ne...

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

N101J: 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...

Julie Symons(Faculty)

N120M: NW120 - Introduction to NW Search Elements

Nosework / Scent Work is the popular new dog sport that is sweeping the nation, and you can get in on the fun! Our classes are taught with the method used to produce the nation's top drug and bomb dete...

Melissa Chandler(Faculty)

N130S: 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 ...

Stacy Barnett(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)

NW270: Foundations, Foundations, Foundations for Nosework

Have you ever heard the phrase, "Go back to Foundations?" Do you really know what that means? In this class we will learn WHAT the proper foundations are for Nosework and will work on enhancin...

Stacy Barnett(Faculty)

NW435: A Focused Formula for Supercharged Results

In the recent online Nosework Conference, “Know the Nose”, hosted by FDSA, as a part of the upper level competition panel I was asked how my training has changed from my first Nosework dog. My answer was that wit...

Stacy Barnett(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...

Lucy Newton(Faculty)

August 1, 2022

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)

AG375: Smoother Moves: Advancing Your Technique Training & Course Analysis

Advanced handling techniques are often a combination of basic handling techniques and are built on the foundation of solid basics. This class will cover introducing advanced techniques and how to apply th...

Megan Foster(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 Mohler(Faculty)

AG470: Love'em and Weave'em - Speed and Independence in Weaves

Do you wish your dog could hit any weave entry regardless of where you are? Do you get nervous when walking a course and see a particular entry? Do you wish you could leave your dogs in the we...

Barbara Currier(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(Faculty)

BH240: Working with Reactive and Hyper-aroused Dogs

This class is best suited to dogs that respond in an active way to an increase in arousal. When leashed or behind a barrier, these dogs typically lunge and/or bark at stimulus such as unknown people, dogs, bicyc...

Sharon Carroll(Faculty)

BH290: Control Unleashed in the Big Wide World

This class assumes some CU background and will be about applying already trained Control Unleashed concepts in real life. We'll be taking the patterns out and about or working with distr...

Julie Daniels(Faculty)

BH315: Hidden Potential: Tapping Your Reluctant Dog's Talents

This course is all about dogs that have been labeled as shut-down, down-stressors, shy, or low-drive. Dogs that run fast in training but slow in trials, dogs that have good days and bad ones, dogs that gi...

Sarah Stremming(Faculty)

BH370: Feelings Change – Desensitization and Counter-conditioning

Learn the art and science of Desensitization and Counter-conditioning. Acquire skills that will allow you to help your dog develop a diminished or a more positive emotional response to things he’s not too keen ab...

Nancy Tucker(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)

CC320: Canine Fitness Trainer 2

This is the second 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 a...

Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)

CC340: Canine Fitness Trainer 4

This is the last in the 4 part series. This course will discuss specific types of dogs including seniors, overweight dogs, puppies, and overly active dogs. We will start using cases to put the four se...

Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)

Electives

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)

FE670: Expose the Dog

This Photography Class will teach you strategies for picking your settings in Manual Exposure. What Settings Should I Use? Of all the questions I get asked as a photographer, this one is the most ...

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)

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 sequence ...

Erin Lynes(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...

Chrissi Schranz(Faculty)

FE320: Toys - Advanced Concepts

Did you have fun in the first toy class? Did you and your dog learn some things? And now you want more?! This advanced class takes the skills learned in Class FE130 - Toys: Building Cooperation and Play, a...

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)

FE455: Beyond the Backyard: Distraction Training for Competition and Real Life!

What's your dog's kryptonite? Squirrels? Food on the ground? People? Other dogs? This class is all about getting the behaviors that you have in your home in a wide variety of...

Nicole Wiebusch (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)

OB225: Competition Heeling Part Two - Skills & Engagement

Sample Lecture New class for the August 2022 session Registration courselist sessions OB225 /s

Petra Ford(Faculty)

OB370: Reliable Retrieves

This class will cover all of the pieces needed to train a reliable obedience retrieve. We will begin by teaching each piece of the behavior chain including the hold and front position. Then we will work to put th...

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

OB435: TEAM 4 and More!

Instructor: Laura Waudby This class will focus on preparing the dog for TEAM’s advanced levels 4-6. The exercises in these advanced level are designed to prepare a dog to compete in any obedience organizat...

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

OB465: Shaping a Flashy and Confident Heel - Putting the Skills Together

This class is the 3rd in a series of 3. We've taught the foundations, both moving and stationary, and now is the time to put them all together to create the full picture! We'll be teaching turns, figure 8s,...

Shade Whitesel(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)

Rally & Freestyle

RA290: Get Ready to Rally - Advancing to Rally Excellent!

Once you get into the Rally ring, most teams move through the Novice level fairly quickly. Be prepa for move ups with this class on Advanced and Excellent signs! We will focus on the AKC signs for this clas...

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

RA600: Handler's Choice for Freestylers

In this course, dog-and-handler teams will be able to work on whatever areas they feel could use a bit of coaching or guidance. Are you feeling like you aren’t progressing in a skill or behavior? Ma...

Julie Flanery(Faculty)

Scent Sports

N101S: NW101 - Introduction to Nosework

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 almost all dogs, from insecure and unfocused dogs t...

Julie Symons(Faculty)

NW185: Green Dog Setups for Spectacular Skills

Instructor: Stacy Barnett Registration courselist sessions NW185 /s

Stacy Barnett(Faculty)

NW320: Motivating Drills for Maintaining Skills

Like with many sports, it's nice to have some drills to set up and run! Drills can help us maintain skills. They can also surface gaps! We may also find we aren't pushing ourselves for more challenges whe...

Julie Symons(Faculty)

NW390: Nosework Games

This has been refer to as a coaching class by many students as the games are used to determine where additional skills would be beneficial and then students will set up the games and run the searches to build tho...

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)

October 1, 2022

Agility

AG195: Teeter Training: From Trick to Treat!

This class starts with a trick and ends with a teeter! Teeter training can begin pretty early in a dog’s agility career because it begins with a simple trick: backing up! From this rear end awareness exercise, we...

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

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)

BH410: Normal or Not? Common Behavioral Disorders

Normal, or Not? Diagnosis and Treatment of Common Behavioral Disorders Does your performance partner have a behavior problem that seems like more than “just” a routine training issue? How can you tell? Can dogs ...

Jennifer Summerfield, DVM(Guest Instructors)

Body, Health & Fitness

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

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)

FE590: Out and About

This class is all about enjoying the time you spend out and about with your dog: urban walks, nature hikes, and going places. Whether you and your dog walk on leash, off leash, or on a long line, there are skills...

Chrissi Schranz(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

FE130: Toys - Developing Cooperation and Play

Shade Whitesel(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)

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)

FF140: Connect and Engage with Games: Build Focus for Sport Dogs

Having a dog that’s focused on you is essential in dog sports. Yet, dogs often disengage from us. In this class, you’ll find out why that happens and what to do about it. When dogs disconnect, they t...

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

Obedience

OB118: TEAM Sports Foundations Level Two

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 2. The TEAM program lays o...

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

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)

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)

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(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

RA545: Joy of Heeling Part Two - More Rock it like a Freestyler!

You’ve found the Joy! Now how are you going to keep it and use it in the ring! In Joy of Heeling Part Deux we will add some new games, start to add duration in heelwork and start to change the ratio o...

Julie Flanery(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

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)

NW430: Common Scents Proofing: Building Confidence with Distractions

Distractions, distractions, distractions.....In this class we will develop the ability to search in the midst of many types of distractions. Using pattern games and start buttons we can help our dogs commun...

Melissa Chandler(Faculty)

December 1, 2022

Agility

AG190: The Glue for Future Agility Stars

Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)

Behavior

BH110: Dealing with the Bogeyman: Helping Reactive and Fearful Dogs - The Play Way!

Amy Cook(Faculty)

BH160: Sound Advice: Conquering Noise Sensitivity

Amy Cook(Faculty)

BH285: Control Unleashed Pattern Games for Sports and Life Skills

Julie Daniels(Faculty)

Electives

FE565: Finding Five - Training for a Busy World

Too much work, and too little time? Too exhausted to train your dog at the end of a busy day? Feeling guilty for not having exercised them enough? Come join us in Finding Five! We’ll be looking at 5 comm...

Chrissi Schranz(Faculty)

Foundations

FF160: The PROOF is in the Training: Building Strong Behaviors

You’ve got the behavior down pat in your living room, but once you get outside it completely falls apart. Maybe you want to try the rally or obedience ring, but have no idea how to get from here to there.&n...

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

Obedience

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)

Other Dog Sports

DS330: Disc Dog - Freestyle Tricks

Winter is the perfect time to work on your disc freestyle routine! Oh, that snow and sleet and ice outside? No worries! In this class, we will focus on teaching new tricks that can be incorporated into an...

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

Rally & Freestyle

RA330: Movin' On Up: Skills and Signs for Master Rally

Are you a little intimidated by the master signs, with all those spins, sends, and signals? Don’t be! The rally master class is a blast for you and your dog. If you’ve both been enjoying rally t...

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

Scent Sports

N101J: NW101 - Introduction to Nosework

Julie Symons(Faculty)

N120M: NW120 - Introduction to NW Search Elements

Melissa Chandler(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)

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June 1, 2022

June 1, 2022

Loretta Mohler(Faculty)

Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)

Loretta Mohler(Faculty)

Megan Foster(Faculty)

Amy Cook(Faculty)

Amy Cook(Faculty)

Sharon Carroll(Faculty)

Julie Daniels(Faculty)

Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)

Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)

Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)

Amy Johnson(Faculty)

Amy Johnson(Faculty)

Melissa Breau(Faculty)

Melissa Breau(Faculty)

Julie Flanery(Faculty)

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

Barbara Currier(Faculty)

Deborah Jones(Faculty)Judy Keller(Faculty)

Heather Lawson(Faculty)

Chrissi Schranz(Faculty)

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

Petra Ford(Faculty)

Petra Ford(Faculty)

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

Kamal Fernandez(Faculty)

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

Julie Flanery(Faculty)

Julie Symons(Faculty)

Melissa Chandler(Faculty)

Stacy Barnett(Faculty)

Julie Symons(Faculty)

Stacy Barnett(Faculty)

Stacy Barnett(Faculty)

Lucy Newton(Faculty)