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Agility
AG220: Building and Maintaining Stopped Contacts
Many dogs start their agility career with good stopped contact performance. But over time, the behavior or the criteria changes and morphs into something undesirable. What causes that to happen? This cla...
Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)
AG316: Precision Charged Weaves - Handler Choice
Did you miss registration for “AG315 - Precision Charged Weaves Poles” last session? Did you take the class, and would you like to continue to get feedback on your weave progress? This handler’s choice class allo...
Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)
AG345: Connection & Commitment: Mastering the Key to Clean Handling
Want to run an agility course clean and with ease? To feel like you can get everywhere you want on course? To be able to trust your dog to go where you send them every time? Connection is without a doubt one of t...
Bronagh Daly(Faculty)
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)
BH255: I CU in the Real World: Advancing Your Control Unleashed Skills
Ready to take your CU skills on the road? Welcome to I CU in the Real World: Advancing Your Control Unleashed Skills! This class will build on all previous CU classes. Gold students will have the opport...
Kim Palermo(Faculty)
BH295: Advancing Reactive Integration into the Real World
Advancing Reactive Integration into the Real World Is your dog reactive to other dogs on leash? People coming into the home? People they see outside the home? Does your dog respond negatively to specific stimuli...
Karen Deeds, CDBC (Faculty)
BH335: Dealing With Feelings: Applied Counterconditioning and Desensitization
Whether your dog is having problems in the ring or struggling in daily life, the key to addressing problematic behaviour can be understanding and improving the dog’s emotional state. That's where countercondition...
Irith Bloom(Faculty)
BH365: Thinking Patterns for Arousal, Reactivity and Acclimation
Does your dog struggle in new settings or situations? Do they get worried and shut down, or become hypervigilant and reactive? Whether you are going into competition, to the vet, to a training class, ...
Karen Deeds, CDBC (Faculty)
BH405: Composed & Focused Around Critters
This class is for the dogs who just cannot ignore the scent, sight and/or sound of prey animals or birds, making walks with them difficult to enjoy. Prey drive is one of the fundamental parts of making dogs who t...
Tracey McLennan(Guest Instructors)
Body, Health & Fitness
CC205: Targeting Fitness
Want to start fitness using targeting? Maybe fine tune your dog’s fitness skills to uce your dogs luring during exercises. This class is for you! This class will teach a variety of targeting skills including fro...
Kelly Daniel(Faculty)
CC260: Those Bum Knees
Knee problems are incibly common in dogs. Whether the dog is a top level athlete or a professional cookie catcher at home, the knee is one of the weakest links. Cruciate disease, ACL or CCL problems a...
Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)
EL840: Get Going Gently: Handler Fitness 10-Minute Daily Reset
Starting a fitness journey can feel overwhelming — especially if it seems like everyone else is already ten steps ahead. This course was designed to meet you exactly where you are. Is this you? You want to fe...
Liz Joyce(Faculty)
Electives
EL125: Skills for Canine Good Citizen or Therapy Dog Evaluations
This course brings together the best of therapy dog preparation and Canine Good Citizen training, creating a strong foundation for both ends of the leash. Whether your long-term goal is to become a registe therap...
Heather Lawson(Faculty)
FE375: Is This It? Match To Sample
Can your dog pick out the identical matching item you're holding or pick out an item from a pile that you've previously touched? Ever wonde just how far you can go in stretching your dog’s cognitive abilities? In...
Heather Lawson(Faculty)
FE525: Managing Multi-Dog Mayhem
Multiple dogs can create some interesting training challenges! This class is designed to give you the tools to make a multi dog household a peaceful and productive place. In this class, we will cover...
Loretta Mueller(Faculty)
FF230: Tricks with a Purpose
There are so many reasons why training tricks are beneficial to your dog, yourself and your relationship, tricks aren’t just for entertainment or rainy days anymore! Teaching tricks not only help our dogs learn h...
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(Faculty)
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)
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 easil...
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 cook...
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 activit...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
Obedience
OB205: Optimizing Arousal for Learning and Competition
Understanding and managing your dog’s drive state/arousal level is a critical component of training and trialing successfully. It is very difficult and uncomforle for a dog to learn and compete in a state o...
Petra Ford(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)
OB415: Utility Foundation Fun!
Utility has always been my favorite class!! Lots of people call the class “futility” but I think it’s tons of fun. I start teaching the foundation skills when my dogs are young…. puppies actually!&nbs...
Petra Ford(Faculty)
Other Dog Sports
DS150: The Power of Pulling - Introduction to Dog Powered Sports
Got a dog with “big dog energy” (whether or not they’re a big dog)? Looking for an outlet? Or, maybe your dog needs more exercise but cannot be off-leash. Dog-powe sports allow your dog to expel more energ...
Erin Lynes(Faculty)
DS380: Push it! Treibball Foundations and Problem Solving
Want to build your distance control and connection with your dog while participating in a great new sport? Or maybe you’ve always been fascinated by herding, but don’t have sheep. Check out Treibball! So...
Melissa Breau(Faculty)
DS500: Retriever Sports Blind Retrieves - Start and Build Your Skills
This course is about how to train your dog to perform blind retrieves for Retriever sports, like AKC Retriever Hunt Tests, Field Trials and HRC tests. Have you ever tried to run a blind, just HOPING your dog wou...
Jennifer Henion(Faculty)
Rally & Freestyle
RA330: Movin' On Up: Skills and Signs for Master Rally
Did you know you can go from novice to the master class in just 9 runs? It happens so fast! Are you a little intimidated by the master signs, with all those spins, sends, and signals? Don’t be! The r...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
RA500: Foundation Skills for Rally-FrEe and Musical Freestyle
Rally-FrEe is a unique sport developed in 2012 that blends the structure of Rally with the creativity of Musical Freestyle. Originally designed to improve accuracy and precision in freestyle routines, it has sinc...
Julie Flanery(Faculty)
RA540: Joy of Heeling - Rock it like a Freestyler!
What is your ideal picture of beautiful heelwork? It likely includes words like precision and accuracy. Does it go beyond that to include enthusiasm, energy, lift, spark and joy? These are the attributes th...
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
You’ve put in the time to build your foundation - now don’t let that momentum fade! This next step will take you from solid basics to confident, competition-ready searching. And the best part? We'll mee...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
NW200: Are You Trial Ready? Trial Preparation for Nosework Teams
So you’ve been training hard at this sport and want to go out and test your skills. You’ve heard all about howfoundations are critical to success. You don’t know if you have them or how to go about getting ready ...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW525: Achievement Unlocked: Success at the Upper Levels
You've found yourself at the upper levels and now it gets complicated! Search areas get bigger and more challenigng. Times get tighter. Maybe you have more hides but maybe the area is blank? &nb...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW720: Find It! - Lost Item Recovery
Want to expand your scent work skills and play new, engaging scent games with your dog? Lost Item Recovery is not only a fun sport but also a practical skill - and teaching it is one of my specialties! In the No...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
TR101: Foundation Tracking 1
This class covers everything the handler needs to know to get organized and get started in tracking. We will discuss topics such as equipment preferences, other equipment needed, how to develop a start rout...
