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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)
AG300: Fast & Focused: Control Unleashed for Agility
When it comes to agility, the most successful agility dogs are the ones who can retain the best thinking brains. Whether it’s in the ring or outside of the ring, the agility environment can be a lot. That ...
Bronagh Daly(Guest Instructors)
Behavior
BH150: Management for Reactive Dogs
https://youtu.be/tNKvwjofJ8U Ti of "just managing" your lungy barky dog in the moment? You can AMP up your management with an Active Management Plan! Don't improvise, don't "make it up ...
Amy Cook, PhD(Faculty)
BH265: Strategies for Training and Competing the Sensitive Dog
This class provides information for those working with dogs that perform the following behaviors in training, in competition, or in specific situations: slowing, hesitating, freezing, losing focus, appearin...
Sharon Carroll(Faculty)
BH375: Freedom from FOMO: Overcoming Canine Frustration
Does your dog frequently experience feelings of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) or frustration at the thought of being left out of all things fun? Whether those feelings come up when you are training another dog...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
BH410: Normal or Not? Common Behavioral Disorders
Normal, or Not? Diagnosis and Treatment of Common Behavioral Disorders Does your performance partner have a behavior problem that seems like more than “just” a routine training issue? How can you tell? Can dogs ...
Jennifer Summerfield, DVM(Guest Instructors)
BH425: Harmony in the Household
Is there discord in your home? Would you prefer to have peaceful music with the individuals living together instead of a cacophony of grumbling, growling, and fighting? Whether you are struggling with a dog that...
Karen Deeds, CDBC (Faculty)
Body, Health & Fitness
CC300: Getting Geeky About Fitness
This class is an intensive dive into the geeky side of Canine Fitness and Conditioning training. We’ll look at relevant biology and biomechanics, anatomy and physiology terms, relevant training theory and applica...
Kelly Daniel(Faculty)
EL800: Unlock Your Handling Potential: Handler Fitness 101
Are you done with struggling to keep up with your active dog during competitions or in life? Do you want to improve your scores and have more fun? Are you looking for a way to give back to yourself AND multitask ...
Liz Joyce(Faculty)
FF190: All About Nails
You asked for it; you got it! By popular demand we are now offering a husbandry class strictly focused on feet and nails. Of all the grooming procedures that your dog needs, people report BY FAR...
Deborah Jones(Faculty)
Electives
FE650: Adjust the Dog - Introduction to Lightroom
Back in the good ol' days of film, clicking the camera only got you halfway to a completed photograph. The other half was the development process, whether that was done at a commercial lab or in a photo...
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)
FF410: Cognitive Challenges: The Key to How Your Dog Thinks
A creative class developed by Barbara Lloyd to test your dog’s ability problem solve. This class is suile for puppies and dogs all the way up to adulthood. For puppies in particular, this class wo...
Barbara Lloyd(Guest Instructors)
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 say? Is ...
Shade Whitesel(Faculty)
FE145: First Things First - Puppy Foundations for a Bright Future
First Things First is the new puppy owner's guide to building strong skills and social behaviors -right from the start! With a progression based on my board-and-train puppy program, this s...
Erin Lynes(Faculty)
FE225: Shaping Skills: From Start to Finish!
Do you end up doing a palm-to-face plant every time you start a shaping project? Using shaping to teach behaviours to our dogs can be both exhilarating and downright frustrating. Sometimes we fly along, and other...
Heather Lawson(Faculty)
FF115: Control Games for All the Sports
This course utilizes games to help teach your dog focus and self control with a focus on sport behaviors. Start line stays, working around distractions and choosing to focus on the handler are some of the g...
Sara Brueske(Faculty)
FF145: Food Cues and Markers: Powerful Reinforcement for Clean Training
Are you finding yourself confused by all the new marker cues for everything? Toss, X, Yes, Sniff, Scatter, it’s hard to keep them all straight and your head is going to explode! What is the big deal anyway?...
Shade Whitesel(Faculty)
FF150: Greet Expectations: The Art of the Polite Hello!
Is your dog TOO friendly? Over-excited, jumpy, and perhaps even a little unwittingly rude with how eagerly they greet you, other family members, or strangers? If you’ve found yourself wishing that y...
Erin Lynes(Faculty)
FF215: Game Changer!
As positive reinforcement trainers, we understand that our dogs have choices – the choice to engage or not engage, to stay or go, to work or not work, to choose us or choose the environment. These choices are cru...
Julie Flanery(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)
OB225: Competition Heeling Part Two - Skills & Engagement
Heeling requires significant concentration and sustained focus to maintain position, focal point and engagement. Heeling is easily the most difficult obedience exercise. When trained properly, it is a ...
Petra Ford(Faculty)
OB285: From TEAM to Trials: Building Chains for the Novice Ring
This class will teach you how to take your TEAM foundations skills in levels 1 & 2 and use those to create the full exercises used in trials. We will be looking specifically at the exercises at the novi...
Laura Waudby(Faculty)
OB375: Enhanced Engagement - Building Competition Skills
Most dogs know how to do the exercises. They even have a foundation in engagement. But when they compete, things often fall apart. Competition requires another level of engagement. Dogs must maintain engagement w...
Petra Ford(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
RA260: Get Ready to Rally - Foundation Skills
Welcome to the exciting world of Rally! In this course, we will guide you through the essential skills requi for each Novice sign. From sits and downs to fronts, finishes, turns, and short heeling segments, we'll...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
RA550: Transitions and Flow - Creating Effective Sequences for Musical Freestyle Routines
Have you ever watched a freestyle performance that mesmerized you? Not because the dog was performing a lot of difficult or fancy tricks or because the handler had a great costume and danced well, b...
Julie Flanery(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 all types of dogs, from insecure and unfocused dogs...
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
This course is a handlers choice to work on improving your dog's detection alert. Does your dog need to have a specific alert behavior in order to compete in your nosework venue? Is your dog not committed...
Lucy Newton(Faculty)
NW370: Hide Placement for Powerful Training
Do you struggle with how to set hides? Do you accidentally overface your dog or make the hides too hard? Do you have structure to your training so that you thoughtfully build skills? Hav...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW465: Making the Inaccessible Hide Easy
Inaccessible hides require the handler and dog to demonstrate increased trust and communication in order to call alert confidently. Being sure enough to call Alert gets more and more challenging the deeper or the...
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...
