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Agility
AG120: Agility Basics 2
This course builds on the agility handling moves we learned in AG110: Intro to Agility. Now we will begin to put these handling maneuvers into small sequences using combinations of 3 jumps and a tunnel. We will a...
Loretta Mohler(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) that your do...
Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)
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 straight...
Loretta Mohler(Faculty)
AG400: Smooth Moves: Adding the Dog to Your Agility Handler Mechanics
This class introduces handling techniques to your dogs, then proofs them and progresses them into short sequences. We will begin with the key skills Megan believes dogs need before sequencing should begin: commit...
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)
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)
BH265: Strategies for Training and Competing the Sensitive Dog
This class is best suited to dogs that perform the following behaviors in training, in competition, or in specific situations: slowing, freezing, losing focus, appearing “disinterested”, becoming unresponsi...
Sharon Carroll(Faculty)
BH285: Control Unleashed Pattern Games for Sports and Life Skills
This class is for dogs who have trouble with the environmental conditions they meet in their life with you. Is your dog aroused by other dogs, afraid of new people, stimulated by motion, or anxious ab...
Julie Daniels(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)
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)
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)
FE790: Building a Website Advanced: Handler’s Choice
Have you taken Melissa's class on building a website and found... you want more? In Building a Website Advanced: Handler’s Choice we'll take a look at a few of the most common additions students want to ma...
Melissa Breau(Faculty)
RA590: Tricked into Freestyle: From Foundation to Fantastic!
Are you ready to add some paw-zazz to your trick training? Ti of the same old tricks of spins and weaves? Let’s kick it up a notch! We’ll take the basics and transform them into an array of awesome tricks and beh...
Julie Flanery(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 ...
Shade Whitesel(Faculty)
FE155: Crucial Concepts of Competition - Shaping/Luring/Capturing and More!
Got a new puppy? A new sport prospect for the sport of your choice? Got future plans but no idea how to start? Which behavior DO you start with? Got a pet dog and discove how fun teaching is? Interested i...
Shade Whitesel(Faculty)
FE175: School of Fish - Raising a Performance Puppy
This course will cover everything I teach my performance dogs when they come home at 8 weeks until around 6 months of age. The order in which I teach things build on each other. This is also the same ...
Barbara Currier(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)
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 dog...
Heather Lawson(Faculty)
FE545: May the reinforce be with you!
Starting from the assumption that reinforcers are behaviors rather than things, and can be trained, put on (marker) cue, proofed, and generalized like any other behavior, we will explore a large variety o...
Chrissi Schranz(Faculty)
Obedience
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)
OB215: Competition Heeling Part One - Fundamentals
Great heeling is a pleasure to watch. Dog and handler moving together as one. The dog is happy, animated, joyful and confident. Heeling is a dance that should express joy and teamwork. How do you accomplish...
Petra Ford(Faculty)
OB390: Picture Perfect Positions for Obedience, Rally, and More!
Sit! Down! Stand! Does your sport require position changes either in heel, front, or both? How about moving positions? This class will cover it all! If you want quick responsiv...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
OB425: From TEAM to Trials: Building Chains for the Open Ring
This class will teach you how to take your TEAM foundations skills in levels 1 & 2 and use those to create the formal chains used in trials. We will be looking specifically at the exercises in Open leve...
Laura Waudby(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)
OB800: Mondioring OB: All-Breed Obedience
Mondioring Obedience is a fun new obedience venue cate to all breeds! Based on real-life challenges and working under distraction, Mondioring takes familiar obedience exercises to a new level. With the devel...
Sara Brueske(Faculty)
Other Dog Sports
DS320: Disc Dog - Strategies for Strategy Games
Strategy games are the new upcoming trend in the Disc Dog world. Skyhoundz Disc Dogathon and UpDog Challenge have created new innovative challenges to test the skills of disc dog teams. This course ...
Sara Brueske(Faculty)
Rally & Freestyle
RA280: Get Ready to Rally: Get in the Ring!
Imagine this… It’s your first time in the Novice Rally ring with your dog. You walk into the ring and you feel confident — you just know that both you and your dog are fully prepa for this moment. You set up ne...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
RA540: Joy of Heeling - Rock it like a Freestyler!
What is your ideal picture of beautiful heelwork? It likely includes words like precision and accuracy. Does it go beyond that to include enthusiasm, energy, lift, spark and joy? These are the attributes th...
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 dete...
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)
NW205: Creating Clarity with Contrasts
Nosework was originally developed as an enrichment activity and quickly grew into one of the fastest growing dog sports. While therapeutic in nature, it also requires skillful training and handling. Training wit...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
NW270: Foundations, Foundations, Foundations for Nosework
Have you ever heard the phrase, "Go back to Foundations?" Do you really know what that means? In this class we will learn WHAT the proper foundations are for Nosework and will work on enhancin...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW435: A Focused Formula for Supercharged Results
In the recent online Nosework Conference, “Know the Nose”, hosted by FDSA, as a part of the upper level competition panel I was asked how my training has changed from my first Nosework dog. My answer was that wit...
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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