Fenzi Dog Sports Academy

October 2025

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)

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 sequ...

Erin Lynes(Faculty)

FF145: Food Cues and Markers: Powerful Reinforcement for Clean Training

Is your dog barking at you, demanding that you get that treat out of your pocket NOW? Easily frustrated, skyrocketing into arousal and unable to think about anything but the food in your hand? Or, are they easily d...

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

FF205: Confident Exams and Measuring

This course will focus on how to break down the exam skills needed for obedience trials and measuring before doing their first agility trials! Is your practice for exams/measuring a mix of shoving a billion cookies...

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

FF320: Better Still: Stays Without Frustration

Are you frustrated with your dog constantly offering behaviors when you're trying to teach them to stay still? Welcome to "Better Still: Stays Without Frustration," a class designed for dogs who thrive on activity a...

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

December 2025

FE335: Spaces In Between

This is a class about preparing our dogs for the competition or seminar environment. Over and over I see dogs that are unprepared or rehearsing behavior we don't want at seminars, classes and trials. Over time this ...

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

FE420: Bye, Bye Cookie: Hello Delayed Reinforcement!

Do you struggle to get your dog's attention without a cookie (or toy!) in your hand? Are you tired of your dog only responding to a cue when you reach into your pocket? ...

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

Have you ever felt embarrassed when your dog checks out in the middle of training — or worse yet, in the middle of the competition ring? This could look like the dog sniffing on the ground, running to another person...

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

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

Teaching Approach: New class!

Erin Lynes(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)

February 2026

FE130: Toys - Developing Cooperation and Play

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

FE280: Cutting Out the Cookies (or Toys!) - Reducing Reinforcement for R+ Trainers

Ever feel envy when you watch a obedience/rally/Schutzhund/etc… trial performance and the dog executes perfect skills for the WHOLE routine? No treats in the handler’s pocket, no toy in their hand, but the dog is ce...

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 ima...

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

FF125: The Adolescent Dog: Making a Terrific Teenager!

Adolescence... argh! The era of big bodies and big feelings but tiny brains and tiny attention spans. That time frame between around 6 to 24 months when your sweet little training superstar seems to dissolve a...

Erin Lynes(Faculty)

FF155: Go Ahead, Motivate Me! Engagement for the Differently Motivated Dog

The types of dogs that will be best suited to joining us in this class are those that are naturally quite independent, appear to have very little interest in “work”, appear to have a very short attention-span when i...

Sharon Carroll(Faculty)

April 2026

FE155: Crucial Concepts of Competition - Shaping/Luring/Capturing and More!

Got a new puppy? A new sport prospect for the sport of your choice? Got future plans but no idea how to start? Which behavior DO you start with? Got a pet dog and discovered how fun teaching is? Interested ...

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

FE370: ALL THE SPORTS: Foundation for the Cross-training Canine

This course outlines the foundation training program developed by the instructor, Sara Brueske. This program was developed with experience training many different breeds and ages of dog to successful careers i...