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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
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, PhD(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)
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)
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
EL110: Beyond the Click: Adventures in +R2.0
Does your dog struggle with understanding what you're teaching? Do you have a lot of extraneous behaviours popping into your work, such as barking, spinning, sniffing, foot shuffling, or creative improvising? D...
Helene Lawler(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 Mueller(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)
FE680: See the Dog: Developing Your Photographic Vision
This photography class is unlike any of my other courses. We 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 create an ima...
Amy Johnson(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
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)
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!
Does your dog seem to forget what sit means until you reach into your pocket? Do you struggle to get your dog's focus without a cookie in your hand? &n...
Laura Waudby(Faculty)
FE450: Training Levels - Level 1
If you're looking for a structu course designed to teach your dog the basic skills that every dog needs to know for success as a pet, sport or working dog, or all three, then this course is for you. &...
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
RA290: Get Ready to Rally - Advancing to Rally Excellent!
Are you hooked on rally? 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...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
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
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)
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. This class is designed to build confidence and empower our ...
Melissa Chandler(Faculty)
NW440: Spectacular Sourcing Skills Soup to Nuts
The ultimate skill in sport detection is Sourcing. When a dog understand true sourcing, skills like working pooling, trapped, lofting odor or most any other challenging advanced skill becomes easy. Im...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
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