Fenzi Dog Sports Academy

November 2026

F3000: Say What!? The Hows and Whys of Teaching Clean Verbal Cues

3 WEEK CLASS - Have you found it challenging to help your dog grasp verbal cues? Does it seem like your dog sometimes doesn’t recognize the verbal cues you’ve taught? Or perhaps verbal cues feel less relevant to you...

Julie Flanery(Faculty)

F3017: Not Yours! Building a Rock-Solid Food Refusal

3 WEEK CLASS - Could your dog stay in a down while someone drops food right in front of them, or even between their feet? Food refusal is one of those sport exercises that looks almost like a magic trick when it’s ...

Sarah Rida(Guest Instructors)

F3018: Using Food in Training: Changing the Role Food Plays

3 WEEK CLASS - Whether our dog is mugging us for food, struggling to ignore food containers, or refusing to work when food isn’t visible, the underlying problem may be surprisingly similar: food itself has become pa...

Sharon Carroll(Faculty)

F3019: SPOT ON! Stations, Targets & Turn-Taking for Life and Sports

3 WEEK CLASS - Does your dog think dinner guests came for a personal greeting? Does “wait your turn” sound reasonable until another dog gets the cookie? Maybe you’d love a dog who can relax beside you at a café, wa...

Heather Lawson(Faculty)

F3020: No Pee Zone: Eliminating Elimination in Competition

3 WEEK CLASS - Some dogs are all business and focus on their task. Other dogs want to DO their business! Urine marking is a normal and instinctual behavior, but changing it can be very challenging once habits h...

Julie Symons(Faculty)

December 2026

FE420: Bye, Bye Cookie: Hello Delayed Reinforcement!

Does your dog only work when the cookies (or toy!) is in your pocket or even your hand? At trials, you're desperately gripping a few pieces of food just to keep them with you until you hit the ring ent...

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

FF110: Pay to Play: Using Food to Get Great Toy Play

Do you have a dog that plays great at home but ignores the toy in public? Is your dog lacking confidence in tug or gets distracted in fetch? Or a dog that gets too excited about toys and struggles to focus on work o...

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

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

Ready to build a dog who loves working with you — no matter what’s happening around them? Does your dog lose focus during training or in the competition ring? Maybe they start sniffing, checking out other dogs, cha...

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

FF200: Let's Play!

Teaching Approach: New class!

Crystal Wing(Faculty)

FF225: Energized Engagement

Engagement is the most challenging skill to achieve in dog training. It’s also easily the most important. An engaged dog is actively involved in the learning process and pushing you for more. When a dog is offering ...

Petra Ford(Faculty)

RA560: Shape Up - Improving and Maintaining Your and Your Dog's Shaping Skills

Shaping is the art of teaching by reinforcing small, incremental steps toward a final, goal behavior—letting the dog take the lead in the learning process. It builds problem‑solving, confidence, creativity, an...

Julie Flanery(Faculty)

February 2027

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 you...

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

FE595: Bombproof Behaviors

You've trained the behaviors down to the tiniest of detail and are now ready to show them off to the world. This class will help you prepare for the distractions that await you in any environment you can imagi...

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

FF115: Control Games for All the Sports

This class teaches control and handler focus suitable for a variety of dog sports. Using structured games, handlers will work on impulse control, focus, and responsiveness in the presence of distractions. The empha...

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

FF175: Building Bravery: Concepts and Games for Growing Confident, Optimistic Dogs

Building Bravery is a six-week, game-based class designed to help dogs grow confident, curious, and optimistic in the face of new challenges. Using play, communication, and trust-building exercises, you’ll discover ...

Erin Lynes(Faculty)

April 2027

FF125: The Adolescent Dog: Making a Terrific Teenager!

Building Regulation, Focus, and Real-Life Skills for Teenage Dogs Adolescence is the stage where dogs have big bodies and big emotions, but brains that are still very much under construction. Between roughl...

Foundations

November 2026

F3000: Say What!? The Hows and Whys of Teaching Clean Verbal Cues

Julie Flanery(Faculty)

F3017: Not Yours! Building a Rock-Solid Food Refusal

Sarah Rida(Guest Instructors)

F3018: Using Food in Training: Changing the Role Food Plays

Sharon Carroll(Faculty)

F3019: SPOT ON! Stations, Targets & Turn-Taking for Life and Sports

Heather Lawson(Faculty)

F3020: No Pee Zone: Eliminating Elimination in Competition

Julie Symons(Faculty)

December 2026

FE420: Bye, Bye Cookie: Hello Delayed Reinforcement!

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

FF110: Pay to Play: Using Food to Get Great Toy Play

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

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

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

FF200: Let's Play!

Crystal Wing(Faculty)

FF225: Energized Engagement

Petra Ford(Faculty)

RA560: Shape Up - Improving and Maintaining Your and Your Dog's Shaping Skills

Julie Flanery(Faculty)

January 2027

F3021: Clarity in Communication - Food Reinforcement Procedures

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

February 2027

FE130: Toys - Developing Cooperation and Play

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

FE595: Bombproof Behaviors

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

FF115: Control Games for All the Sports

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

FF175: Building Bravery: Concepts and Games for Growing Confident, Optimistic Dogs

Erin Lynes(Faculty)

April 2027

FF125: The Adolescent Dog: Making a Terrific Teenager!

Erin Lynes(Faculty)