Webinar Presentations

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Petra Ford - Oh No! A Show! Prepping Your Dog For Success

Date: Thursday, June 25th

Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time). 
Fee: $19.95 USD

You did it—you entered a trial. And suddenly it feels very real. As the date gets closer, training starts to change. We’ve all been there. You test instead of teach. You focus on errors. The pressure builds—and your dog feels it too.

In this webinar, we’ll look at how to approach trial prep in a way that builds confidence—for both you and your dog—so you can walk into the ring feeling ready and confident.

We’ll cover:

• How to structure your training as a trial approaches
• Strategies to balance skills, motivation and confidence in your prep
• The role of handler mindset—and how it directly impacts your dog’s performance
• Simple, effective ways to reduce pressure on you and your dog
• How to create process-driven goals that support success in and out of the ring

Whether this is your first trial or your fiftieth, having a clear, thoughtful plan makes all the difference.

This webinar will help you organize your training, refine your approach, and step into the ring with a dog who feels prepared—and a handler who feels confident. Because great trial experiences aren’t created by last-minute fixes… they’re built through intentional preparation.

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Julie Flanery - Game On! Focus Games for Fun and Success!

Date: Thursday, June 25th

Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time). 
Fee: $19.95 USD

The essential components of success in canine performance sports include attention, focus, and engagement.

In the dynamic world of dog sports, overcoming external stimuli, or distractions, is paramount. The ability of a dog to maintain focus not only defines their success but directly influences the confidence levels of both the dog and the handler.

Explore the nuances of attention, focus, and engagement as distinct yet interrelated elements that are key to a successful performance. Understand the significance of these abilities and how they contribute to creating a dynamic partnership between you and your canine companion.

This session will bring fun games designed to aid in developing our dogs' desire to stay connected and kindle our dog's enthusiasm for maintaining attention, focus, and engagement.

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This webinar was previously presented during the 2024 Hocus Pocus! Train for Magical Focus Online Conference. Please check your Course and Workshop Library to prevent a duplicate purchase.

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Chris Zink, DVM - Training Puppies for Fitness and Skills – When to Start? What to Do?

Date: Thursday, July 2nd

Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time). 
Fee: $19.95 USD

Puppies are uniquely susceptible to certain injuries, and their effects can last a lifetime. Depending on their eventual adult size, puppies’ musculoskeletal and neurological systems develop at different ages and at different rates.

In this webinar, Chris Zink shows you how to evaluate your puppy’s maturity rate, discusses the injuries for which puppies are most susceptible, and provides recommendations for training puppies for fitness and skill training at various stages of development based on the published scientific evidence.

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Chris Zink, DVM - Train Your Dog to Gait for Fitness and Performance

Date: Thursday, July 2nd

Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time). 
Fee: $19.95 USD

The trot is the foundational gait for producing powerful movement. In this webinar, Dr. Chris Zink will demonstrate how you can easily train your dog to trot with strong, balanced drive. This gait is used in conformation, obedience and rally, and to detect lameness, but the power it builds is the basis for all performance events. It is never too late to train a dog of any age to gain this kind of balance and strength! 

Join Chris for a fun, informative webinar that just might propel your dog to new levels in any game you play.

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Laura Donaldson – Part 1: STOP AND SMELL THE PEE MAIL: Sniffing as Slow Thinking and Social Problem-solving

Date: Thursday, July 9th

Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time). 
Fee: $19.95 USD

This multi-part webinar offers a deep dive into the everyday practice of canine sniffing—not organized nose or scent work but rather, the behavior dogs engage in when left to their own devices in the backyard or just walking down the block. Sniffing is critical to canine welfare because is a form of Slow Thinking and social problem-solving in dogs, who navigate the world first and foremost through their noses.

Part One: Sniffing as Slow Thinking and Social Problem-solving
Smelling is the most ancient canid sense and dogs have evolved an olfactory anatomy as well as sniffing behaviors to maximize this. We have all heard about the ability of dogs to scent explosives, drugs, human remains and even biological disease—but sniffing also functions as a central form of cognition for dogs as well as an important mode of social problem-solving. Part One will guide viewers through the canine world of everyday sniffing by looking at the remarkable insights of several recently published scientific studies and considering how sniffing functions as one of dogs' most important forms of Slow Thinking.

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Laura Donaldson – Part 2: STOP AND SMELL THE PEEMAIL: Everyday Sniffing as Healing from Trauma

Date: Thursday, July 9th

Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time). 
Fee: $19.95 USD

This multi-part webinar offers a deep dive into the everyday practice of canine sniffing—not organized nose or scent work but rather, the behavior dogs engage in when left to their own devices in the backyard or just walking down the block. Sniffing is critical to canine welfare because is a form of Slow Thinking and social problem-solving in dogs, who navigate the world first and foremost through their noses.

Part Two: Everyday Sniffing as Healing from Trauma
Trauma is significantly under-recognized in dogs, partly because canine responses to trauma are often suppressed as “bad” or even “disruptive” behavior. A common feature of traumatic response is that the brain’s executive capacity—the pre-frontal complex enabling subjects to self-regulate—is deactivated. It is here that both the neurobiology and behavior of sniffing provide dogs with a powerful form of healing because sniffing not only helps dogs re-activate their cognitive abilities but also enables a critical experience of embodied balance. Part Two of this multi-part webinar tells the story of how everyday sniffing helped one incredibly special dog recover from more than a decade of overwhelming neglect and stress. In telling this story, Part Two will introduce viewers to a basic framework for thinking about canine trauma and extend the insights from Part One on dogs' everyday sniffing as Slow Thinking and social problem-solving

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