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Agility
AG140: Building and Maintaining A Start Line
Many dogs start out their agility career with a good start line. But, over time that start line behavior deteriorates. Why do good start lines break down for some dogs and not others? How can some dogs have great...
Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)
AG380: Agility Drills - Get a Responsive Dog!
Does your dog have a tendency to ignore your commands on course? Or "blow you off"? Do you feel you need clarity in the information you are giving to your dog? Is your dog a tunnel sucker? How do you fix it? I...
Loretta Mohler(Faculty)
AG470: Love'em and Weave'em - Speed and Independence in Weaves
Do you wish your dog could hit any weave entry regardless of where you are? Do you get nervous when walking a course and see a particular entry? Do you wish you could leave your dogs in the we...
Barbara Currier(Faculty)
Behavior
BH110: Dealing with the Bogeyman: Helping Reactive and Fearful Dogs - The Play Way!
This is Amy's signature Play Way class! Is your dog brilliant at home but shuts down at the show? Or does he bark and lunge at people or dogs on walks? Does she seem generally stressed, whether frantic about it ...
Amy Cook, PhD(Faculty)
BH240: Working with Reactive and Hyper-aroused Dogs
This class is best suited to dogs that respond in an active way to an increase in arousal. When leashed or behind a barrier, these dogs typically lunge and/or bark at stimulus such as unknown people, dogs, bicyc...
Sharon Carroll(Faculty)
BH290: Control Unleashed in the Big Wide World
This class assumes some CU background and will be about applying already trained Control Unleashed concepts in real life. We'll be taking the patterns out and about or working with distr...
Julie Daniels(Faculty)
BH315: Hidden Potential: Tapping Your Reluctant Dog's Talents
This course is all about dogs that have been labeled as shut-down, down-stressors, shy, or low-drive. Dogs that run fast in training but slow in trials, dogs that have good days and bad ones, dogs that gi...
Sarah Stremming(Faculty)
BH370: Feelings Change – Desensitization and Counter-conditioning
Learn the art and science of Desensitization and Counter-conditioning. Acquire skills that will allow you to help your dog develop a diminished or a more positive emotional response to things he’s not too keen ab...
Nancy Tucker(Faculty)
Body, Health & Fitness
CC110: K9 Conditioning
This course will give you an understanding of basic dog anatomy, basic conditioning for dogs, and general exercises. We'll work on conditioning exercises, endurance exercises, and strengthening exercises. In addi...
Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)
CC320: Canine Fitness Trainer 2
This is the second 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 a...
Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)
CC340: Canine Fitness Trainer 4
This is the last in the 4 part series. This course will discuss specific types of dogs including seniors, overweight dogs, puppies, and overly active dogs. We will start using cases to put the four se...
Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)
Electives
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(Guest Instructors)
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)
FE670: Expose the Dog
This Photography Class will teach you strategies for picking your settings in Manual Exposure. What Settings Should I Use? Of all the questions I get asked as a photographer, this one is the most ...
Amy Johnson(Faculty)
FE680: See the Dog: Developing Your Photographic Vision
This photography class will be unlike any of my other courses. We will 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 cre...
Amy Johnson(Faculty)
Foundations
FE145: First Things First - Puppy Foundations for a Bright Future
First Things First is the new puppy owner's guide to building strong skills and social behaviors -right from the start! With a progression based on my board-and-train puppy program, this s...
Erin Lynes(Faculty)
FE240: Calling All Dogs
Do you dream of a reliable real-life recall? Do you dream of a dog who pays attention to you, making sure not to lose you when you're out on an off-leash hike? Do you want to learn how to effectively rewa...
Chrissi Schranz(Faculty)
FE320: Toys - Advanced Concepts
Did you have fun in the first toy class? Did you and your dog learn some things? And now you want more?! This advanced class takes the skills learned in Class FE130 - Toys: Building Cooperation and Play, a...
Shade Whitesel(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)
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)
FE515: Hound About Town - Lifestyle Skills and Manners Training
Learn the skills and manners that will help to prepare you and your dog for your worldly adventures. These skills will also prepare you to take the Canine Good Neighbour (CGN), Canine Good Citizen (CGC) or Urban ...
Heather Lawson(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)
OB225: Competition Heeling Part Two - Skills & Engagement
Sample Lecture New class for the August 2022 session Registration courselist sessions OB225 /s
Petra Ford(Faculty)
OB370: Reliable Retrieves
This class will cover all of the pieces needed to train a reliable obedience retrieve. We will begin by teaching each piece of the behavior chain including the hold and front position. Then we will work to put th...
Sara Brueske(Faculty)
OB435: TEAM 4 and More!
Instructor: Laura Waudby This class will focus on preparing the dog for TEAM’s advanced levels 4-6. The exercises in these advanced level are designed to prepare a dog to compete in any obedience organizat...
Laura Waudby(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! We'll be teaching turns, figure 8s,...
Shade Whitesel(Faculty)
OB820: Control Games: Secondary Obedience for Protection Sports
While the most fun part of protection sports is the biting part, there is a lot of control work that needs to be done to do the protection exercises effectively. Secondary obedience (obedience in the presence of ...
Sara Brueske(Faculty)
Other Dog Sports
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)
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)
RA600: Handler's Choice for Freestylers
In this course, dog-and-handler teams will be able to work on whatever areas they feel could use a bit of coaching or guidance. Are you feeling like you aren’t progressing in a skill or behavior? Ma...
Julie Flanery(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 almost all dogs, from insecure and unfocused dogs t...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
NW185: Green Dog Setups for Spectacular Skills
Instructor: Stacy Barnett Registration courselist sessions NW185 /s
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW320: Motivating Drills for Maintaining Skills
Like with many sports, it's nice to have some drills to set up and run! Drills can help us maintain skills. They can also surface gaps! We may also find we aren't pushing ourselves for more challenges whe...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
NW390: Nosework Games
This has been refer to as a coaching class by many students as the games are used to determine where additional skills would be beneficial and then students will set up the games and run the searches to build tho...
Melissa Chandler(Faculty)
TR203: Tracking - Skill Building
This class will be a continuation of TR102. We will be focusing primarily on building upon the skills introduced in TR101 and 102 - increasing spacing of targets/articles, more fully developing turns and working ...
Lucy Newton(Faculty)
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