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Agility
AG110: Intro to Agility - Handling Basics
Are you familiar with dog sports but new to agility? Feel out of place in a beginner’s class but not sure where to learn the basics for this sport? Been in agility for awhile but feel like your founda...
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)
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)
BH305: The Whole Picture - Behavioral Wellness for Performance Dogs
Based on Sarah's concept, The Four Steps to Behavioral Wellness, this course digs deeper into what our dogs really need. The Four Steps are: exercise, enrichment, nutrition, and communication. Learn how to exerci...
Sarah Stremming(Faculty)
BH370: Feelings Change – Desensitization and Counter-conditioning
This course is eligible for 21 CEUs with the CCPDT: (CPDT-KA will earn 21 CEUs • CPDT-KSA will earn 6 knowledge CEUs and 15 skills CEUs • CBCC-KA will earn 6 CEUs •&...
Nancy Tucker(Faculty)
Body, Health & Fitness
CC260: Those Bum Knees
Knee problems are incibly common in dogs. Whether the dog is a top level athlete or a professional cookie catcher at home, the knee is one of the weakest links. Cruciate disease, ACL or CCL pr...
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)
CC420: Helping Dogs Thrive: Fitness in Five
Short on time for fitness training? No worries, you only need five minutes! In this class, you will learn specific fitness exercises for your dog(s). We will cover exercises to increase muscle strength a...
Lori Stevens(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)
FE198: No More Excuses - Building Accountability and Motivation
Struggling with motivation? Perhaps your library is full of great classes that you haven't done or you have goals and aspirations that simply aren't being met. Develop your skills to overcome the inevile ...
Andrea Harrison(Faculty)
FE375: Is This It? Match To Sample
Can your dog pick out the identical matching item you're holding? Ever wonde just how far can you go in stretching your dog’s cognitive abilities? In this class, we teach your dog the concept of "matching...
Heather Lawson(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 Lake Mueller(Faculty)
FE540: Knock-knock: From Chaos to Calm
This course is eligible for 15 CEUs for trainers and 2 CEUs for behavior consultants with the CCPDT Does the entrance to your home become a chaotic scene when someone knocks or rings the doorbell? T...
Nancy Tucker(Faculty)
Foundations
FE105: Get Focused!
Do you struggle to keep your dog engaged and attentive in training? Does your dog find other dogs, people, or even smells on the floor more interesting than you? Do you have a dog that is great when he’s “on” but...
Deborah Jones(Faculty)Judy Keller(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)
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? T...
Laura Waudby(Faculty)
FF280: Empowerment
A Course for Expanding your dog's Personal Power! Can your dog use some help with the physical and mental challenges of your favorite sport? Would you like for your dog to enjoy more activities wit...
Julie Daniels(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)
OB190: Heeling: Power & Precision - Part 3
This class is part 3 of a 3-part series. Ready to turn those bits and pieces into a formal, ring-ready heeling pattern? What is the secret to a fancy figure 8? In this class, we will formalize...
Hannah Branigan(Faculty)
OB330: Obedience Games
If you like to think of training as a game, then this is the class for you! If you have a busy schedule and are always on the go and finding your obedience training taking a back seat - come play and see h...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
OB455: Handler's Choice for Obedience - Polishing
Here's your chance to polish up your obedience skills for the AKC ring. Nancy has put 4 AKC OTChs on her dogs and judged AKC obedience for 20 years. Gold Students - You decide what you need help with from Novice...
Nancy Gagliardi Little(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! Check out the syllabus for the actu...
Shade Whitesel(Faculty)
OB540: Shaping the Competition Retrieve
In this class we will work through all the steps and fine details requi to develop a precise and reliable competition-level dumbbell/scent article/glove retrieve. We will use shaping, rather than play, as the ba...
Deborah Jones(Faculty)Judy Keller(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)
Rally & Freestyle
RA280: Get Ready to Rally: Get in the Ring!
You’ve got the skills, you know the signs, so what’s next? It’s time to step into the Rally ring with your teammate! Yes, it can sound scary and overwhelming, but this class will help you prepare for and be...
Nicole Wiebusch (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
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 detection 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 i...
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 ve...
Lucy Newton(Faculty)
NW340: The Four Cornerstones of Trial Preparation
What are the Four Cornerstones of Trial Preparation? Quite simply they are: Confidence, Motivation, Skills and Stamina. This is the "secret sauce" to developing a successful Nosework teammate....
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW430: Common Scents Proofing: Building Confidence with Distractions
In this class we will develop the ability to search in the midst of distractions. We will build odor value by removing the distractions and playing energy building and motivational games. Then we will...
Melissa Chandler(Faculty)
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