Webinar Presentations
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Webinars will run approximately 1-2 hours including presentation and questions.
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Shade Whitesel - Footstep Tracking: A Guide to Foundations
Date: Thursday, July 3rd, 2025
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Interested in teaching your dog to track? Notice that your dog likes to sniff stuff, keeps their nose down and wonder if you can harness that motivation?
I love tracking. I think it is one of the most wonderful things we can do for our dogs. They already know how to track. Making it consistent, and motivating and something that you do together with your dog, rather than fighting that tremendous instinct, can add some valuable pieces to your relationship.
My experience is in footstep tracking, most commonly used for IGP (Schutzhund), but I think teaching dogs this way can be a great foundation for any tracking sport. I’ll teach you how to add value to the footsteps themselves, teach an article indication, and then put the 2 parts together.
Join me for an introduction to footstep tracking to experience how fun it can be! Dogs that do best in this method love food, as it is heavy on the use of food in the foundation pieces.
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Denise Fenzi - Touchy Heely: Contact Heeling for Ringsport, Behavior Work and Life!
Date: Thursday, July 3rd, 2025
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
"Contact heeling" means teaching your dog to maintain physical contact with your body while also allowing them the freedom to look around. You might be moving, standing still, sitting in a chair, or completing a task, and your dog will press against you to maintain contact! While originally trained for the Sports of French and Mondio Ring, this skill is useful in crowded environments, during training classes, or between working exercises...anywhere dogs frequently lose contact with their handler. In behavior work, contact heeling can allow both you and your dog to observe the environment while simultaneously retaining physical awareness of each other. So many uses!
Unlike precision heeling, there is no expectation of eye contact or a precise position at the handler's side. Indeed, the dog can be taught to rotate all the way around the handler - the only criteria is continuous physical contact. As a result, contact heeling can be relaxing and enjoyable for both parties.
Sound useful? It is! Join Denise Fenzi and learn how she teaches contact heeling, along with a discussion of the varied ways she uses this skill in both training and in daily life.
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Tracey McLennan - Train Like a Tester: Smarter, Faster Progress
Date: Thursday, July 10th, 2025
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Dog training can feel like a frustrating cycle of trial and error - but it doesn’t have to. In this webinar, you'll learn how to apply a simple, structured framework borrowed from IT testing to make faster, clearer progress with your dog. We’ll cover how to plan sessions with purpose, evaluate what’s working, and adjust your training with confidence. Ideal for handlers of all levels, whether you're competing or just getting started.
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Kelly Daniel - But I don't have much gear! Fitness exercises on single pieces of equipment
Date: Thursday, July 10th, 2025
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Whilst it's super cool to have a ton of Canine fitness equipment, that's not always reality, and it's also not a necessity to be able to do a wide range of fitness exercises. This webinar will run through a reminder of the base fitness skills and positions, and applying these skills and positions to pieces of equipment to give you usable ideas about a range of different fitness exercises, that you could do on single pieces of equipments. I'll run through a TON of different examples of exercises, on a range of different pieces of equipment both commercially available, and DIY or random things! We will then run through considerations when using less equipment - namely how to select a balance of exercises to create balance in the fitness exercises you are doing to help meet your dogs fitness needs. Lets dive in and get creative about how you can use the gear that you have to give your dog a great workout!
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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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