Fenzi Dog Sports Academy - Course Schedule

December 1, 2021

Agility

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)

Behavior

BH110: Dealing with the Bogeyman - Helping Fearful Reactive and Stressed Dogs

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(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

CC240: Get Out in Front: A Focus on Forelimb Health and Strengthening

Dogs place sixty to seventy percent of their weight on their front legs or their forelimbs. This percdentage increases when a dog jumps and lands on their front limbs, trots and jumps, if there are an...

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

FE298: Unleash Personal Potential

Want to expand your life skills for dog training and competing? Wondering how to make mindfulness and dog training work together? Curious about how to plan to include dreams and aspirations? Not sure how ...

Andrea Harrison(Guest Instructors)

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)

FE585: Modifier Cues

WHAT IS A MODIFIER CUE?It's a cue that gives additional information to your dog to further differentiate the exact behaviour that will earn them a reward. Some examples of Modifier cues might includ...

Heather Lawson(Faculty)

Foundations

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)

FF140: Connect and Engage with Games: Build Focus for Sport Dogs

Having a dog that’s focused on you is essential in dog sports. Yet, dogs often disengage from us. In this class, you’ll find out why that happens and what to do about it. When dogs disconnect, they t...

Nicole Wiebusch (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)

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)

OB290: Give Props to Props: Getting Clean Competition Behaviors

Are you struggling with crooked fronts or finishes? Is your dog creeping on the position changes? Is your dog still not backing up on cue? Learn how props can help fix all these problems and pre...

Nicole Wiebusch (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)

OB415: Utility Foundation Fun!

Utility has always been my favorite class!! Lots of people call the class “futility” but I think it’s tons of fun. I start teaching the foundation skills when my dogs are young…. puppies actually!&nbs...

Petra Ford(Faculty)

OB568: Handler's Choice December

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 de...

Kamal Fernandez(Faculty)

Rally & Freestyle

RA545: Joy of Heeling Part Two - More Rock it like a Freestyler!

You’ve found the Joy! Now how are you going to keep it and use it in the ring! In Joy of Heeling Part Deux we will add some new games, start to add duration in heelwork and start to change the ratio o...

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)

NW170: Building Blocks of Nosework - Before Odor

You, your dog, an inquiring mind and the start of a whole new world of opportunity. In this course you will learn the foundations of nosework even before you ever introduce odor. This course has been desi...

Stacy Barnett(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)

NW330: Bulletproof Skills for Both Ends of the Leash

This class is about going from Good to Better and Better to Bulletproof for all of those skills that can give a team a competitive edge. This is the "Soft Skills" of Nosework... for both ends of the leash! ...

Stacy Barnett(Faculty)

NW350: More Proofing and Generalization for All Levels

Do you want to make your team the best you can be? The key to success in Nosework is in Generalization and Proofing. This course isn’t a skills based course although skills will be enhanced an...

Stacy Barnett(Faculty)

TR101: Foundation Tracking 1

This class covers everything the handler needs to know to get organized and get started in tracking. We will discuss topics such as equipment preferences, other equipment needed, how to develop a start rout...

Lucy Newton(Faculty)

February 1, 2022

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)

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)

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)

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)

Body, Health & Fitness

CC140: Aged to Perfection: Keeping Your Senior Fit in Mind and Body

Instructor: Erin Lynes Registration courselist sessions CC140 /s

Erin Lynes(Guest Instructors)

CC290: Dogs With Long Backs - Things You Need To Do

Long backs in dogs come in many shapes and sizes. There are many long backed breeds, such as Daschunds, Corgis, Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, and many more. Thee are also many breeds th...

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

FE650: Adjust the Dog - Introduction to Lightroom

This course is designed to introduce the basics of post-processing. The software we will use is Adobe Lightroom Classic, but it is also possible to use Adobe Photoshop Bridge instead. Post-pro...

Amy Johnson(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)

FF490: Greeting Skills: From Friendly Tornadoes to Warm Hellos

Teach your overly friendly dog how to say hello – or maintain a polite distance – with grace and finesse. This course is for the dog who absolutely loves people and/or dogs and feels the need to say...

Nancy Tucker(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! The class is ...

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)

FE135: Shaping Demystified

Does shaping feel hard, intimidating, or just not for you and your dog? Are you constantly in awe of what others can achieve through shaping? Great news! Shaping should neither be difficult nor complicated and th...

Sarah Stremming(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)

FE355: Rock-Solid Stays for Competition & Real Life

If you find teaching movement-oriented behaviors easy but “the absence of behavior” (stays!) hard - then this class is for you! Whether your dog is just learning stays or you’ve been struggling and you know...

Nicole Wiebusch (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)

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? &n...

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

Obedience

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)

OB285: From TEAM to Trials: Building Chains for the Novice Ring

Sample Lecture New class for the February 2022 session. Registration courselist sessions OB285 /s

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

OB460: Shaping a Flashy and Confident Heel - Foundations

Do you have “heeling envy”? Do you see all those prancing dogs in perfect position looking up at their handlers and wish you could teach your dog THAT? Does your dog love the pivot platform, but how DO yo...

Shade Whitesel(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

RA310: From Good to GREAT! Increasing Your Rally Scores

You love playing rally with your dog, but sometimes you wish your scores were just a bit higher. Imagine being able to increase your rally scores simply by incorporating some minor changes. Did you kn...

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 almost all dogs, from insecure and unfocused dogs t...

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)

NW345: Container Wizardry: Fixes, Proofs, and Results

Sample Lecture New class for the February 2022 session. Registration courselist sessions NW345 /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)

April 1, 2022

Agility

AG220: Building and Maintaining Stopped Contacts

Many dogs start their agility career with good stopped contact performance. But over time, the behavior or the criteria changes and morphs into something undesirable. What causes that to happen? This cla...

Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)

AG225: LOVE’EM From the Start: Foundation Weaves

Teach your dog to love the weaves right from the beginning. This course will not only create the drive and love for the weave poles but to nail those entries and hang on to their poles even at speed...

Barbara Currier(Faculty)

AG365: Agility Handler Mechanics

Do you constantly get the same feedback from your isntructor over and over again? Does learning new handling techniques feel like a game of twister while running full speed? Breaking new skills down into smaller ...

Megan Foster(Faculty)

Behavior

BH110: Dealing with the Bogeyman - Helping Fearful Reactive and Stressed Dogs

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(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)

Body, Health & Fitness

CC160: Canine Sports Medicine for the Performance Dog Handler

There are many musculoskeletal injuries that can occur to performance dogs. Some are subtle and come on gradually. We are not really sure if there is something wrong. Some are acute and come on ...

Sue Yanoff, DVM(Guest Instructors)

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 problems a...

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

FE190: It's All In Your Head - Developing Your Mental Game

Do you overthink your training, have ring nerves, experience anxiety around training or competing, or feel excessive stress about training? Are you curious to understand the impact your brain has on train...

Andrea Harrison(Guest Instructors)

FE375: Is This It? Match To Sample

Can your dog pick out the identical matching item you're holding or pick out an item from a pile that you've previously touched? Ever wonde just how far you can go in stretching your dog’s cognitive abilities? In...

Heather Lawson(Faculty)

FE590: Out and About

This class is all about enjoying the time you spend out and about with your dog: urban walks, nature hikes, and going places. Whether you and your dog walk on leash, off leash, or on a long line, there are skills...

Chrissi Schranz(Faculty)

FE640: Compose the Dog - Photographic Composition

Compose the Dog is the class where the pieces start to come together. We take everything you know about exposure and post-processing and add a layer of "how to arrange all the things" and come out on the ...

Amy Johnson(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)

FE280: Cutting Out the Cookies (or Toys!) - Reducing Reinforcement for R+ Trainers

Instructor: Shade Whitesel Registration courselist sessions FE280 /s

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

FE445: Crazy Good! Self-Control Games for the Wild Child

This class is about how to use high-energy training and high-energy reinforcers. It’s for dogs who already love to play in the Crazy zone. I’ve had well-trained Good dogs who could not rise to their potential wit...

Julie Daniels(Faculty)

FE485: All the Sports: Building on the Basics

All the Sports: Building on the Basics expands on the behaviors and concepts learned in the first All the Sports class. We'll move forward with various concepts to create more advanced behaviors. This class is su...

Sara Brueske(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

OB120: TEAM Sports Foundation - Level 3

Team 3!! This is where the real fun begins as you start to chain together the little pieces you learned in levels 1-2. Now the dog gets to really move and you can start to see real glimpses of the f...

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

OB130: 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...

Heather Lawson(Faculty)

OB275: Finding the FUN in Fronts and Finishes!

Are fronts and finishes essential to your sport? Do you have a young pup who needs to learn these important skills, or an already-trained dog who could use a refresher? Maybe your dog is getting a lit...

Nicole Wiebusch (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

DS110: Dryland Dock Diving Training- Foundation, Fitness and Fixes!

Are you interested in dock diving and want to give your dog a great foundation before you even hit the pool? Or perhaps you’ve been to the pool with your dog and things didn’t go as well as you expected. OR...

Erin Lynes(Guest Instructors)

DS340: Disc Dog - Handler's Choice

Disc dog is an amazing sport that has a variety of elements suile for any toy-driven dog. This hybrid “handler’s choice” course will allow each team to work on the aspects of disc dog that suit them best but will...

Sara Brueske(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

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

NOTE: NW120S has been restructu in order to allow students from NW101 to catch up as needed with the help of either the Instructor (for Gold Spots) or the Teaching Assistant (for Silver & Bronze Spots). Dogs ...

Stacy Barnett(Faculty)

NW205: Creating Clarity with Contrasts

Training with clarity is a goal for any sports training and it’s no different for Nosework! How clear is your dog on the expectations of a search? Nosework struggles are often a lack of understanding. Contrasts h...

Julie Symons(Faculty)

NW475: Challenges to Enhance Problem Solving: Another 6 Weeks of Setups

Sample Lecture New class for the April 2022 session Registration courselist sessions NW475 /s

Stacy Barnett(Faculty)

June 1, 2022

Agility

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

FF470: Cookie Jar Games

The goal of Cookie Jar Games is to help your dog want to choose delayed reinforcement over immediate reinforcement. Cookie Jar Games use a 'dog's choice' approach and creative antecedent arrangements to set up e...

Julie Daniels(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)

OB390: Picture Perfect Positions for Obedience, Rally, and More!

This class will cover stationary and moving position changes needed for the sports of rally and obedience, both in heel, stationary (at a distance), and moving. We will break down and teach the following ex...

Nicole Wiebusch (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)

Rally & Freestyle

RA330: Movin' On Up: Skills and Signs for Master Rally

Are you a little intimidated by the master signs, with all those spins, sends, and signals? Don’t be! The rally master class is a blast for you and your dog. If you’ve both been enjoying rally t...

Nicole Wiebusch (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)

August 1, 2022

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)

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)

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 Fearful Reactive and Stressed Dogs

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(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)

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

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

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! The class is ...

Julie Daniels(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)

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)

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)

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)

Rally & Freestyle

RA290: Get Ready to Rally - Advancing to Rally Excellent!

Once you get into the Rally ring, most teams move through the Novice level fairly quickly. Be prepa for move ups with this class on Advanced and Excellent signs! We will focus on the AKC signs for this clas...

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

October 1, 2022

Behavior

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)

Body, Health & Fitness

FF180: Yes Please! Cooperative Canine Care

Can you draw blood from a whale without force? Yes, you can. What about put eye drops into a sea lion's eyes with no fuss? Again, yes you can. But you have to train for it. Captive ...

Deborah Jones(Faculty)Judy Keller(Faculty)

Other Dog Sports

DS380: Push it! Treibball Foundations and Problem Solving

Want to build your distance control and connection with your dog while participating in a great new sport? Or maybe you’ve always been fascinated by herding, but don’t have sheep. Check out Treibball! So...

Course Schedule

SCHEDULE

December 1, 2021

December 1, 2021

Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)

Amy Cook(Faculty)

Amy Cook(Faculty)

Sharon Carroll(Faculty)

Julie Daniels(Faculty)

Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)

Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)

Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)

Andrea Harrison(Guest Instructors)

Chrissi Schranz(Faculty)

Heather Lawson(Faculty)

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

Petra Ford(Faculty)

Kamal Fernandez(Faculty)

Julie Flanery(Faculty)

Julie Symons(Faculty)

Melissa Chandler(Faculty)

Stacy Barnett(Faculty)

Julie Symons(Faculty)

Stacy Barnett(Faculty)

Stacy Barnett(Faculty)

Lucy Newton(Faculty)