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Karen Deeds CDBC - Building Confidence In your Dog

Date: Thursday, July 17th, 2025
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time). 
Fee: $19.95 USD

Having confidence is a quality that we would like in ourselves as well as our dogs! However, not all dogs are born with it, either by design or genetic flaw, or due to lack of exposure and experiences during formidable times of maturation. Perhaps they have had some trauma that has left them lacking confidence as well. A dog’s ability to be confident is part nature, and part nurture. Confidence and resilience are related concepts. Confident dogs can handle meeting new people, unfamiliar dogs, or be in new situations without become fearful. Resiliency on the other hand, is the ability to bounce back from situations that cause fear or discomfort. Therefore, building resiliency will help build confidence and building confidence can help with resiliency. Dogs can certainly lack confidence in specific areas but be confident in others. Some dogs may be environmentally confident, but not socially, or be more socially confident, but lack it environmentally. In this webinar, we will explore ways to build confidence in your dog, both physically and mentally! Ensuring your dog feels safe during this process is important. Confidence comes from the Latin word, ‘trust’, so we do not want to violate their trust in us during this process.

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Sophie Liu DVM CDBC -  Mythbusting Behavior Medications: It's More Than You Think

Date: Thursday, July 17th, 2025
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time). 
Fee: $19.95 USD

Myth: Behavior medications are a new invention and they're totally misused.
Fact: Behavior medications have been studied in dogs for decades! In fact, the FDA has approved four behavior drugs for use in dogs - demonstrating their therapeutic efficacy and safety. Yet, behavior drugs carry massive stigma in dogs because canine behavior issues often get dismissed as "lacking training or discipline". But some dogs have issues that no amount of training can modify because their emotional processing is atypical.

Myth: Behavior drugs are simply increasing serotonin and increasing serotonin actually causes learning problems.
Fact: Contrary to a popular myth, behavior drugs are not simply increasing serotonin, and this overly simplistic view has been well debunked in rodent and human research. New studies show multiple ways that medications improve emotional processing and behavior. It's not simple, but it is beautiful!

Ready to learn more? In this talk, we’ll take a brain-based approach to describing: how dogs process their environment, why their personality matters and how genetics is involved, and how drugs help modify their learning. We will highlight canine anxiety and aggression, and explore how a particular class of drugs called SSRIs modify these states. Join as we dive deep into combining neuroscience, clinical evidence, and practical applications for responsible use of behavior-modifying drugs in dogs!

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Irith Trietsch Bloom - When Details Really Matter: Re-examining CC&DS

Date: Thursday, July 24th, 2025
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time). 
Fee: $19.95 USD

If you've been in the world of non-human animals for a while, odds are you've heard the terms counterconditioning (CC) and desensitization (DS). The odds are also pretty high that you have deliberately used a combination of counterconditioning and desensitization in some context or other. And maybe things worked out well… or maybe the results weren’t what you’d hoped for.

In this webinar, Irith will re-examine CC and DS, with a focus on why CC and DS don’t always work as well as we’d like. She will share geeky considerations about the use of CC and DS, examine common pitfalls, and teach you how to avoid those pitfalls to get better results. Whether you’ve been struggling with CC and DS, find them useful but want to get even better results, or just want to get geeky about behavior science, this webinar is for you!

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Barbara Lloyd -  Motivation vs. Focus: Why Your Dog Needs Both — And How to Build Them

Date: Thursday, July 24th, 2025
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time). 
Fee: $19.95 USD

Motivation and focus are not the same thing — and confusing them can seriously derail your training. In this live 60-minute webinar, Barbara Lloyd takes you inside the real difference between a dog who’s motivated, a dog who’s focused, and what happens when you only have one but not the other. You’ll learn: • The clear definitions of motivation vs. focus • Why your dog can be full of energy and still totally unproductive • What it looks like when your dog is focused but unmotivated • How this impacts you as a handler • Real-life examples of training breakdowns — and breakthroughs • Practical, proven ways to build both in your dog Barbara will also share how her Cognitive Challenges Framework is designed to develop both motivation and focus in a thoughtful, balanced way — helping you create the kind of working relationship where things just click. 👩‍🏫 Who It’s For: • Dog handlers, trainers, and working dog enthusiasts • Anyone who feels stuck between chaos and compliance • People who want a clearer, more connected training partnership ✅ What You’ll Walk Away With: • A clear lens to evaluate what’s really going on with your dog • A fresh understanding of how motivation and focus interact • A better way to structure your sessions so your dog can shine Bring a notebook — and bring your questions! This isn’t just a lecture. It’s a conversation that will leave you seeing your dog, and your role, in a whole new light.

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Aleks Woodroffe - Blank or Not blank? Learn Changes of Behavior to better call finish

Date: Thursday, July 31st, 2025
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time). 
Fee: $19.95 USD

Are you struggling with blank searches or blank areas within searches? We start to see blank searches in AKC master interior, NW3, as well as blank areas within many different searches at many upper level searches. I’m excited about this webinar, where we’ll dive into the challenges of blank searches in dog training. If you’ve ever struggled to call finish when there are no hides—or even doubted how to train effectively for these situations—you’re not alone, and this webinar is here to help. During the session, I’ll share insights on how to spot and understand the subtle changes in behavior that dogs show when working in blank environments. We’ll explore real-life examples together, breaking them down to help you better SEE what your dog might do in these types of searches. I’m excited to have great video examples of the same dogs working a series of searches either blank or with odor present. We also will walk through ways to set up blank searches at home, giving you practical tools to build your confidence and improve your dog’s skills. Part of this training will be for your dog’s confidence, but also to build a nice foundation on how to call finish and when to call it at home vs. in trial. Come join us and build your own library of experiences to understand how to read your dog in these searches, how to set them for success, and how to build your dog’s understanding of blank searches.

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Stacy Barnett - Calling Finish with Confidence! Focus and Hide Commitment

Date: Thursday, July 31st, 2025
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time). 
Fee: $19.95 USD

Did you know that the only way that you CAN call Finish with Confidence is if your dog is working in a FOCUSED manner with COMMITMENT to the hide. If you don't have these pieces in place, you can't really be certain that you have covered your area. We will learn what focus and hide commitment look like and HOW to achieve it. This is the foundation to good, solid searching. Imagine this.... you find yourself on the start line of a large exterior with a rare opportunity to run off leash. You have been training hard and layering in all the skill that you need to be able to clear this area effectively. You step the line and take a breath... then with utter confidence in your dog, you release them into the search area. BAM! Just like that.... your dog sources a threshold hide. Yes! Off leash and in a large exterior! Your dog was FOCUSED, ignoring the dirt, leaves, and critters.... and sourced a threshold hide with commitment. Is this a Fairy tale? It doesn't have to be! Also make sure to check out Part 2, next week, where we work on YOUR HALF of clearing areas!

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