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Agility
AG230: The Tipping Point: Contacts and Teeters
This course will take you through the steps from start to finish to create the teeter performance you have always wanted through a series of fun games. We will also work through the Aframe and Dog W...
Barbara Currier(Faculty)
AG270: Weave Pole Training: Not Your Average 2x2s!
Over the last 20 years in the sport, Megan has trained quite a few dogs how to weave, in quite a number of ways! But recently, she’s been developing different ways of splitting skills and reinforcing the differen...
Megan Foster(Faculty)
AG350: Agility In Da House! Small space skills!!
Are you trapped inside with your pup during the extreme heat or cold? Do you only have a very small space to work with your dog and want to perfect your agility skills? Do you need to go back to basics with you...
Loretta Mohler(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)
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)
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)
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. Many dogs appear so much stronger and younger after going through this class. As dogs age...
Lori Stevens(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)
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)
FF240: Tricks for Titles
Did you know that you can now title your dog in Tricks?! Tricks aren’t just for fun anymore and this isn’t just another tricks class! Tricks have so many purposes including teaching your dog to enjoy training, sh...
Sara Brueske(Faculty)
Foundations
FE115: Baby Genius
Raising a puppy is the lucky job we get to enjoy only once in a while! The time goes so quickly, and when the time is up the opportunity to play the baby games with the clean slate is gone! There is a TA in the ...
Julie Daniels(Faculty)
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)
FE370: ALL THE SPORTS: Foundation for the Cross-training Canine
This course outlines the foundation training program developed by the instructor, Sara Brueske. This program was developed with experience training many different breeds and ages of dog to successful career...
Sara Brueske(Faculty)
FE415: Zen Logic - Making Sense of Self Control
What is Zen Logic? The title Zen Logic has two meanings. First, Zen Logic is a training approach based on the concept that giving up what you want can lead to an even better outcome than directly goin...
Deborah Jones(Faculty)Judy Keller(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)
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)
OB135: TEAM Sports Foundations Level Two
This class continues on with the foundations begun in TEAM 1! This class is designed to cover all the exercises in the TEAM Level 2. The TEAM program systematically lays out the building blocks for dev...
Heather Lawson(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)
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)
OB340: Strike a Pose: Fabulous Positions!
You enter your sport ring/field, dog heeling by your side. When the exercise comes, you leave them on a specific position and walk away. You cue each position change, and your dog executes them perfectly with paw...
Shade Whitesel(Faculty)
OB569: Handler Choice February
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)
OB600: Healing Your Heeling Handling
This course is designed for experienced handlers as well as new obedience handlers that know nothing about the finer points of handling during heeling in obedience. Dogs make mistakes in heeling when they are no...
Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)
Rally & Freestyle
RA260: Get Ready to Rally - Foundation Skills
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 (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
Nosework is the popular new dog sport that is sweeping the nation, and you can get in on the fun! Our nosework classes are taught with the method used to produce the nation's top drug and bomb dete...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
N130M: 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 ...
Melissa Chandler(Faculty)
NW160: Alerts - Developing and Problem Solving
Does your dog need to have a specific alert behavior in order to compete in your nosework venue? Is your dog not committed to staying at odor source? Is your dog too aggressive or destructive towards the ...
Lucy Newton(Faculty)
NW190: Training a Thinking Nosework Dog using a Cognitive Approach
Did you know that dogs search with WAY more than just their noses? They will use all of the information available to them in order to find source. Dogs are thinkers. We can use an understanding ...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW415: Nosework Handler's Choice
During this 6 week course, the handler can decide on WHATEVER it is that they want to work on for the duration of the course. Yes, that's right! Absolutely anything related to your dog's scent work journey can b...
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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