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Agility
AG140: Building and Maintaining A Start Line
Many dogs will start out their agility career with a good start line. But, over time that start line behavior starts to deteriorate. Why do good start lines break down for some dogs? Why is it that some dogs have...
Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)
AG175: Jumping Gymnastics
Sarah has your jump foundation training, and Dr. Leslie has the conditioning exercises requi for jumping in this innovative course that covers jumping from all angles. Each week you'll have a foundation training ...
Sarah Stremming(Faculty)Leslie Eide, DVM(Guest Instructors)
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 ...
Loretta Lake Mueller(Faculty)
Behavior
BH150: Management for Reactive Dogs
This class is for learning strategies for managing and controlling dogs that are reactive to dogs and people. Helping them get over their fears is best done when you can set up ideal conditions, but real ...
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)
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)
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)
CC410: Helping Dogs Thrive: Aging Dogs
In this six-week class, you’ll learn about how to keep your aging-dog’s minds and bodies active. As dogs age they typically lose hind-end strength, proprioception, and slow down jus...
Lori Stevens(Faculty)
FF190: All About Nails
You asked for it; you got it! By popular demand we are now offering a husbandry class strictly focused on feet and nails. Of all the grooming procedures that your dog needs, people report BY FAR...
Deborah Jones(Faculty)Judy Keller(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)
FF490: Greeting Skills: From Friendly Tornadoes to Warm Hellos
This course is eligible for 13.5 training CEUs and 1 behaviour CEU for CCPDT for all levels of enrollment Teach your overly friendly dog how to say hello – or maintain a polite distance – with grace and ...
Nancy Tucker(Faculty)
Foundations
FE155: Crucial Concepts of Competition - Shaping/Luring/Capturing and More!
This is the class where the human half of the team learns! No matter what level your dog is at, this class is for you to learn more about teaching and training in general. Clear timing, clear mechanics, kn...
Shade Whitesel(Faculty)
FE165: Magic Mats: Where to be, When to go, and What to do
Welcome to the cool world of placement props! Do you wish your dogs could be polite when you eat dinner? Do you want your dogs to enjoy taking turns in training? Are you interested in TEAM Foundations sk...
Julie Daniels(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)
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)
FE465: Training Levels - Level 3
If Level 1 was kindergarten, Level 2 is all of elementary school, and in Level 3 we're getting into high school - making the standard behaviors not only reliable but useful in competitions and in daily li...
Sue Ailsby(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 d...
Heather Lawson(Faculty)
RA560: Shape Up - Improving and Maintaining Your and Your Dog's Shaping Skills
Both dog and handler’s shaping skills can deteriorate when not used regularly. In training, many of us focus on specific sports. Each sport has its own set of skills that we work to train to fluency in ou...
Julie Flanery(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)
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)
OB460: Shaping a Flashy and Confident Heel - Foundations
My absolute favorite way to teach heeling is by shaping! Since heeling is such a complicated behavior chain with many different skills factoring in (head position, gait and rear end awareness being just a...
Shade Whitesel(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)
Other Dog Sports
DS340: Disc Dog - Handler's Choice
Disc dog is an amazing sport that has a variety of elements suile for any toy-driven dog. This hybrid “handler’s choice” course will allow each team to work on the aspects of disc dog that suit them best but will...
Sara Brueske(Faculty)
DS400: Herding Flatwork Foundations
This course is designed to give you the tools and understanding you need to prepare yourself and your dog for herding. Flatwork is the set of skills dogs need prior to going to stock (or, if your dog is ...
Helene Lawler(Faculty)
DS550: Gun Dog - Continuing Education
Let’s keep going! Gun Dog - Continuing Education is a class designed to keep you moving forward regardless of your level or experience. Whether you participate in pointing, retriever, or spaniel tests or...
Cassia Turcotte(Faculty)
Rally & Freestyle
RA260: Get Ready to Rally!
Welcome to the world of Rally! In this course we will break down and teach the skills for each Novice sign, including halts and sits, fronts, finishes, turns, short heeling segments, and more! &nb...
Nicole Wiebusch (Guest Instructors)
RA502: Rally-FrEe and Musical Freestyle Foundation Skills 2
This course is a continuation of RA501 and covers behaviors from both the Novice and Intermediate classes of Rally-FrEe. You'll also learn how to perform some of the signs from the AKC Rally masters class as thes...
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 de...
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)
NW170: Building Blocks of Nosework - Before Odor
You, your dog, an inquiring mind and the start of a whole new world of opportunity. In this course you will learn the foundations of nosework even before you ever introduce odor. This course has been desi...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW415: Nosework Handler's Choice
I asked and FDSA responded! I will be offering the first Nosework Handlers Choice class and am VERY excited about it! During this 6weeks course, the handler can decide on WHATEVER it is that they want to work o...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
NW470: Win By A Nose: Successful Nosework Trialing
Are you wondering what it takes to be successful trialing in the sport of nosework? Do you know how to prepare for and how to be a good teammate for your dog? Are you struggling to qualify or ...
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)
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