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Agility
AG145: The Art of the Arc: Jumping Grids and Cavaletti Pole Games
Unlock your dog’s rhythm, reach, and jumping finesse in this fun and skill-building 6-week online class! Designed for all levels, this course dives into the power of cavaletti pole and gridwork to enhance your do...
Ashley Escobar(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) your dog nee...
Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)
AG255: Quality over Quantity: Short Sequences to Perfect Handling
It’s about to get nerdy in here! This class is designed to present handing puzzles each week to help you work on timing, smoothness and to identify areas to improve your training and handling. The goal is to be ...
Loretta Mueller(Faculty)
AG335: Success Over Stress: Confidence Building for the Sensitive Agility Dog
Do you have a dog who can become very sensitive during your agility training? Do they struggle with perceived failures or being “wrong” even when they aren’t? Do they struggle with certain environments or agility...
Bronagh Daly(Faculty)
EL820: Unleash Your Speed - Handler Sprinting 101
Do you need to support your dog more? Are you ready to finish your courses strong? Do you need more handling options? It’s all just within your reach but alas … you need a little more speed. During the nex...
Liz Joyce(Faculty)
Behavior
BH150: Management for Reactive Dogs
https://youtu.be/tNKvwjofJ8U Ti of "just managing" your lungy barky dog in the moment? You can AMP up your management with an Active Management Plan! Don't improvise, don't "make it up ...
Amy Cook, PhD(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, PhD(Faculty)
BH205: Dopamine Dive - Box Feeding
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that influences pleasure, motivation, attention, mood and learning. It is part of the brain’s reward system that motivates an individual to seek out pleasurable experiences re...
Karen Deeds, CDBC (Faculty)
BH225: Achieving Zen: Building Confidence and Calm for Anxious Animals
Is the animal you live with struggling with confidence? Do they have a tough time relaxing? If so, this class may be just what you need! It focuses on helping animals learn to relax and feel mor...
Irith Bloom(Faculty)
BH275: Reactive Integration
REACTIVE INTEGRATION - If you have a dog that has undesirable reactions around specific ‘triggers’, this class will help by integrating various foundation training and behavior modification protocols to help...
Karen Deeds, CDBC (Faculty)
Body, Health & Fitness
CC150: FUNctional Foundation Fitness
This class will focus on a solid foundation of the essential fitness skills. This means your dog will be able to perform the most important skills in excellent form. It’s the perfect class for those new to fitnes...
Kelly Daniel(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)
FE635: Photoshop the Dog - Edit Tools for Photographers!
You've maste your camera settings and learned the basics of Lightroom, but you're hitting its limits. That perfect portrait of your dog still includes a leash. Your bird photo has distracting branches. That agili...
Amy Johnson(Faculty)
FE670: Expose the Dog
"What settings should I use?" If I had a nickel for every time I've heard that question, I could probably retire from photography. The thing is, there's no universal answer because light changes co...
Amy Johnson(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 say? Is ...
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)
FE420: Bye, Bye Cookie: Hello Delayed Reinforcement!
Do you struggle to get your dog's attention without a cookie (or toy!) in your hand? Are you ti of your dog only responding to a cue until you reach into your pocket? ...
Laura Waudby(Faculty)
FE518: Loose Leash Walkers Anonymous
Are you done with 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...
Heather Lawson(Faculty)
FE580: Mission Accomplished!
One behavior, two behavior, three behavior, more! Do you ever feel overwhelmed with all there is to train? Do you love to get new behaviors started but struggle with following through and completing the process? ...
Julie Flanery(Faculty)
FF125: The Adolescent Dog: Making a Terrific Teenager!
Adolescence... argh! The era of big bodies and big feelings but tiny brains and tiny attention spans. That time frame between around 6 to 24 months when your sweet little training superstar seems to dissolv...
Erin Lynes(Faculty)
FF165: A Star Puppy: Using Control Unleashed and Free Work to Raise a Confident Puppy
Maximize your puppy’s confidence and resilience with Control Unleashed and ACE (Animal Cent Care) Free Work. I’ve raised many puppies of my own, but it is my most recent puppy who I raised with a CU and Free...
Kim Palermo(Faculty)
Obedience
OB140: From Pivots to Practical Heeling
Build Beautiful Heeling Without the Stress Feeling stuck on the pivot bowl? Unsure how to turn those stationary skills into smooth, confident heeling? You’re not alone—and this class was designed for you. If th...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
OB315: Balancing Motivation & Precision
Dog training is like balancing on a tightrope. We want our dogs to be happy, engaged and motivated. Yet we also need precision which often leads to a loss of enthusiasm. It’s a delicate dance. Once dogs have lear...
Petra Ford(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)
OB430: Maintaining Engagement at Distance
We often have to leave our dogs in the obedience ring. They need to work at a distance from us in spite of pressure from the judge, the environment and the ring gates. We have no connection with them,...
Petra Ford(Faculty)
OB462: Shaping a Confident and Flashy Heel-Moving Foundations
Fancy, flashy, free, prancing, head up heeling! Want it? You've come to the right class. Got forging, vocalizing, crabbing instead? You've come to the right class too! (make sure you grab that first class as wel...
Shade Whitesel(Faculty)
Other Dog Sports
DS120: Fly Farther: Dock Diving Skills and Strategies
Dock diving is a sport with unlimited opportunities to fine tune your dog’s skills and your own handler strategies! But when you only have a limited amount of time on the dock each week to practice, how do you ma...
Erin Lynes(Faculty)
DS260: Best in Show: Stand Out in The Breed Ring
Regardless of the breed, when a dog nails their free stack in the ring… it is the total WOW factor! In this class, we will take free stacking, handler mechanics, fitness, gaiting and more to the next level. We wi...
Ashley Escobar(Faculty)
DS325: What's UpDog - Disc Game Strategies
Want to join in on the latest dog sport craze? Disc dog with the UpDog Challenge! This unique disc competition is designed to encourage new players to get involved in this fun sport as well as test the...
Sara Brueske(Faculty)
DS535: Water Honesty - A Winning System!
Struggling to get accurate lines through water with your retrieving dog? Learn the positive system that makes it clear and fun for your dog to be accurate in water retrieves. Did you know that no matter how muc...
Jennifer Henion(Guest Instructors)
FF260: All Things Parkour
This class will cover International Dog Parkour levels training, novice, intermediate, expert and championship. It is designed for those new to parkour as well as those wanting to train the higher lev...
Melissa Chandler(Faculty)
Rally & Freestyle
RA310: From Good to GREAT! Increasing Your Rally Scores
Increase Your Rally Scores with Confidence You love rally and enjoy training with your dog—but when it comes to your scores, something’s just not clicking. Maybe you’re losing points and you’re not sure why. May...
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
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 all types of dogs, from insecure and unfocused dogs...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
NW325: Purposeful Drills for Progressing Skills
You’ve probably heard this before … that training should be done with purpose and not just going through the motions. There is power in purposeful training! When we have purpose, we are energized, invested and fo...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
NW345: Container Wizardry: Fixes, Proofs, and Results
This class is about creating the AMAZING Container Dog... Containers are tough in that they really are NOT a searching exericse... they are a Selection exercise. That means that we can get all sorts...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW420: Honing Your NW Handling
Do you wish you were a better handler? Handling is 80% dog / 20 % handler. How you handle makes a huge difference in your performance and in your pass rate.... it drives those "P's" and "Q's"! ...
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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