Fenzi Dog Sports Academy - OB455: Handler's Choice for Obedience

Course Details

Here's your chance to polish up your obedience skills for the AKC ring. Nancy has put 4 AKC OTChs on her dogs and judged AKC obedience for 20 years.

Gold Students - You decide what you need help with from Novice to Utility and she will help you develop a plan to reach your goals.

Silver Students - You can join and ask questions about the training that the Gold students are working on. Nancy can not take any personal training questions from the silvers. If you want to know what types of training the Gold students are working on, contact her directly or look at the syllabus for initial information from Gold students.

Bronze students: There is a WEALTH of information being discussed in this class. See the class syllabus for a list of the dogs that are participating, and read what sorts of issues they are working through.

If you are preparing a dog for obedience trials and you need the tiny details and polishing put into place, this class is a must for you.

Instructor: Nancy Gagliardi Little

Nancy Gagliardi Little (she/her) has been training dogs since the early 1980s, when she put an OTCH on her Novice A dog, a Labrador retriever. Since then she has put many advanced obedience titles on her dogs, including 4 AKC OTCH titles, 6 UD titles, 3 UDX titles, and multiple...(Click here for full bio and to view Nancy's upcoming courses)

Syllabus

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There are no formal lectures in this class.

Here is a list of the things the Gold students will be working on in this class. As it progresses, we might work on other issues.

English Cocker (Open) – fronts and finishes, lagging on the figure 8, enthusiasm, position changes: stand to drop, sit to stand

Dutch Shepherd (Util) – signals, articles

Border Collie (Beginner Novice/Novice) – reducing reinforcements and distractions, broad jump, pivots for gloves (handler)

Australian Shepherd (Open) – Drop on recall, Fronts, Command Discrimination

Smooth Collie (Novice) – Increased duration heeling, position changes, fronts

Pembroke Welsh Corgi (Utility) – Signals, directed retrieve, scent discrimination

Labrador (Novice) – Drop on recall

Belgian Tervuren – Puppy Heeling

Labrador (Util) – Moving Stand, Signal Stand, Signal Stand->Drop

Sheltie (Rally Excellent, Novice) – Wide heeling and lagging, reducing reinforcements

Hovawart (TEAM) – heeling, dumbbell hold, stillness

Australian Shepherd (Open) - Drop on Recall, heeling

Course Testimonials

A SAMPLING OF WHAT PRIOR STUDENTS HAVE SAID ABOUT THIS COURSE...

This class was one of the best classes I have taken at FDSA in that it was packed full of excellent information in so many different areas of obedience, from handling to teaching an exercise. This class rocked!!! Nancy, thank you for all your hard work, it cannot be an easy class to teach. We hope you teach it again, we will definitely try for Gold again!!! ~ Chris and Yuri

I am so impressed by Nancy's professionalism. And willingness to listen when a concern was voiced and make modifications so that I could Lear and we could make progress. I only wish this class was offered every term.

I can't say enough about the level of expertise and ingenuity that this class revealed in our instructor, Nancy Little. She worked with a WIDE variety of training problems and I was able to glean information from everything she said! What an amazing class!

Words cannot describe what an incredible class this was. Not just Nancy's eye, as that of a judge, but her ability to teach or tweak every single exercise in a way that makes the dogs just glow with happiness. What an absolutely fantastic class. I wish it could go on forever! Mary Ann E

Nancy was thorough and kind, and provided concise and targeted feedback that fixed some major heeling issues within a few video submissions. This class was exactly what I needed to clean up my handling.

I would love to see the Handler's Choice with Nancy Little every session. It is a great stepping stone or class for experienced students that are still working on training and issues. We get to set the pace and exercises that are most important to our progress.

Nancy has a great eye for detail while keeping the big picture in mind and it is obvious that she brings a wealth of experience to her teaching. She helped me figure out specific steps to improve my training sessions and the results were obvious. She helped me prioritize what I needed to focus on as I prepare my dog for Open emphasizing building a strong working relationship and joyful attitude. I would gladly take this class over again for the opportunity to work with Nancy.

Registration

There are no scheduled sessions for this class at this time. We update our schedule frequently, so please subscribe to our mailing list for notifications.

Registration opens at 11:30am Pacific Time.

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OB455 Gold

$260.00

Gold level access includes all lecture and video materials, ability to post questions and videos to the course forum, and feedback on all questions asked in the forum as well as feedback on both written and video assignments.

OB455 Silver

$130.00

Silver Level includes access to all course materials and the ability to participate in the discussion forum. Students may ask GENERAL questions about course materials and may submit two, one-minute videos for instructor feedback

OB455 Bronze

$65.00

Bronze Level Access includes all lecture and video materials, and the ability to read all questions and answers posted in the class forum. You will not post questions or submit written or video assignments.

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