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Agility
AG190: The Glue for Future Agility Stars
This course is different than most agility foundation classes. Rather than introducing obstacle and flatwork skills needed to run an agility course, this class lays out the critical skills (the glue) your dog nee...
Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)
AG265: Near and Far: Forward Focus vs. Come To Hand
Running an agility course is all about clarity. The clearer we are, the easier a time our dog has understanding our handling and the better we do on course together. This leads us to the two most important aspec...
Bronagh Daly(Guest Instructors)
Behavior
BH110: Dealing with the Bogeyman: Helping Reactive and Fearful Dogs - The Play Way!
This is Amy's signature Play Way class! Is your dog brilliant at home but shuts down at the show? Or does he bark and lunge at people or dogs on walks? Does she seem generally stressed, whether frantic about it ...
Amy Cook, PhD(Faculty)
BH160: Sound Advice: Conquering Noise Sensitivity
Is your dog worried about the noises around her? This class is for you! Whether the issue is in your house with your dog barking at the sounds outside, or you have a dog that can't go out because buildi...
Amy Cook, PhD(Faculty)
BH240: Working with Reactive and Hyper-aroused Dogs
This class is best suited to dogs that respond in an active way when experiencing fear, excitement, or frustration, or when exposed to a "trigger" that initiates an innate response (e.g. a desire to herd or chase...
Sharon Carroll(Faculty)
BH285: Control Unleashed Pattern Games for Sports and Life Skills
This class is for dogs who have trouble with the environmental conditions they meet in their life with you. Is your dog aroused by other dogs, afraid of new people, stimulated by motion, or anxious ab...
Julie Daniels(Faculty)Kim Palermo(Guest Instructors)
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)
Body, Health & Fitness
CC140: Aged to Perfection: Keeping Your Senior Fit in Mind and Body
As the owner of multiple dogs in their double digit years, each at various stages of ‘aged to perfection’, I understand the challenges that can come with having an older dog (or several!) This class i...
Erin Lynes(Faculty)
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)
CC220: Massage for Canine Athletes
Learn how to care for your canine athlete while training, resting, or on the day of a big event. This class will focus on teaching you the skill of using your hands to work soft tissue to increase circulation, uc...
Aleks Woodroffe(Guest Instructors)
CC280: Preventing and Addressing the Iliopsoas
Iliopsoas injuries are unfortunately becoming a fact in many performance dogs' lives, as well as the lives of active dogs. This course will review the reasons why so many dogs are suffering from iliopsoas i...
Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)
Electives
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)
FF245: Stunt Dog Tricks
Want to train fun, active tricks that "wow" your friends? This class focuses on teaching more extreme tricks that are sure to impress. In this class we will teach body stalls, rebounds, dog catches and other tric...
Sara Brueske(Faculty)
Foundations
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 unprepa or rehearsing behavior we don't want at seminars, classes and trials. Over time this ...
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 career...
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 per...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
RA560: Shape Up - Improving and Maintaining Your and Your Dog's Shaping Skills
Both dog and handler’s shaping skills can deteriorate when not used regularly. In training, many of us focus on specific sports. Each sport has its own set of skills that we work to train to fluency in ou...
Julie Flanery(Faculty)
Obedience
OB130: TEAM Sports Foundations Level One
This class is all about foundations! Start a new dog on the right foot or discover missing pieces in your training. This class is designed to cover all the exercises in TEAM Level 1. The TEAM program lays...
Heather Lawson(Faculty)
OB160: Ring Confidence for Obedience, Rally, and Agility
This course is officially expanded to include agility as well as obedience and rally! Most handlers spend months or even years teaching their dogs the specific exercises and obstacle performance foun...
Laura Waudby(Faculty)
OB195: Creating Confidence in Your Obedience Dog
Most dogs are not innately confident. Especially when it comes to obedience. A sport that is not inherently self-reinforcing. A sport where dogs must learn to perform complex behaviors under a lot of pressure. In...
Petra Ford(Faculty)
OB425: From TEAM to Trials: Building Chains for the Open Ring
Obedience can be fun!! Even if you are just starting your journey and think that getting past novice sounds like a pipedream, you want to start this class! Get unstuck from the boring stuff in novice ...
Laura Waudby(Faculty)
OB440: Utility Fun - Putting the Pieces Together
Utility IS fun!! In this class, I deconstruct all the exercises into manageable pieces. Each piece is taught and maintained like a trick. This makes the exercises accessible for us and the dog...
Petra Ford(Faculty)
OB630: Shaping a Fast and Furious Retrieve
Want a strong, motivated retrieve of the dumbell and a good foundation for utility exercises? Join me as I teach you how to create a firm hold, the end skill in the complex retrieve chain. Our basic goa...
Shade Whitesel(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 with the structure of a Rally course and the creativity of Musical Freestyle. To learn more about Rally-FrEe, please visit www.rallyfree.com Each sport has its own set of foundation ...
Julie Flanery(Faculty)
Scent Sports
N101J: 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...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
N120M: NW120 - Introduction to NW Search Elements
Nosework / Scent Work is the popular new dog sport that is sweeping the nation, and you can get in on the fun! Our classes are taught with the method used to produce the nation's top drug and bomb dete...
Melissa Chandler(Faculty)
NW170: Building Blocks of Nosework - Before Odor
You, your dog, an inquiring mind and the start of a whole new world of opportunity. In this course you will learn the foundations of nosework even before you ever introduce odor. This course has been desi...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW270: Foundations, Foundations, Foundations for Nosework
Have you ever heard the phrase, "Go back to Foundations?" Do you really know what that means? In this class we will learn WHAT the proper foundations are for Nosework and will work on enhancin...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW335: Nosework Handling: Insights and Improvements
In this class, handlers will learn to assess and enhance their handling skills within the context of nosework. Designed for all skill levels, this course offers a supportive environment where participants can eva...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
NW530: The Upper Levels: Building Skills for Elite and Summit
There is nothing quite so exhilarating as searching at the Elite and Summit levels. These are levels that push you as a handler to be nimble and focused. In Summit you have to not only maint...
Stacy Barnett(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...
