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Agility
AG190: The Glue for Future Agility Stars
Building the Glue Skills This course is different from most foundation classes. Rather than focusing on obstacles or traditional flatwork, this class teaches the critical foundation skills (the “glue”) that will...
Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)
AG200: Foundation Jumping for All Sports
If you want to do dog sports then you’ll want a variety of foundation skills. One of the most critical of these skills is teaching your dog to jump! If you hold your breath while your dog throws themselves at ob...
Loretta Mueller(Faculty)
AG350: Agility In Da House! Small space skills!!
Are you trapped inside with your pup during the extreme heat or cold? Do you only have a very small space to work with your dog and want to perfect your agility skills? Do you need to go back to basics with you...
Loretta Mueller(Faculty)
AG355: 101 Agility Applications for a Dot
Are you looking for a new way to approach agility training both inside and outside the ring? Or a new solution to your agility training projects or problems? Let me introduce you to a dot! Dots are current...
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)
BH205: Dopamine Dive - Box Feeding
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that influences pleasure, motivation, attention, mood and learning. It is part of the brain’s reward system that motivates an individual to seek out pleasurable experiences re...
Karen Deeds, CDBC (Faculty)
BH355: ACE Free Work
Discover the power of ACE Free Work and all that it can do for you and your dog! Created by Sarah Fisher at Animal Cent Education, Free Work uses individualized enrichment stations to enhance your dog’s body, mov...
Kim Palermo(Faculty)
BH375: Freedom from FOMO: Overcoming Canine Frustration
Help Your Dog Find Calm, Confidence, and Self-Control Does your dog struggle with FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)? These big feelings can lead to frustration, loud behavior, or difficulty settling when your dog feels...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
BH400: The Social Approach
Welcome to the The Social Approach! I’m so happy to introduce you to the project I've been been working on for more than a year now with Josefin Linderström of Canine Consilience! She and I have been exploring bl...
Amy Cook, PhD(Faculty)Josefin Linderström(Guest Instructors)
Body, Health & Fitness
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)
CC230: Construct a Winning Conditioning Plan for Your Sport Dog
Build a Winning Conditioning Plan! Fitness and conditioning are the foundation of everything we do with our dogs, whether they compete in sports, step into the conformation ring, or simply enjoy an active life b...
Ashley Escobar(Faculty)
CC300: Getting Geeky About Fitness
This class is an intensive dive into the geeky side of Canine Fitness and Conditioning training. We’ll look at relevant biology and biomechanics, anatomy and physiology terms, relevant training theory and applica...
Kelly Daniel(Faculty)
EL800: Unlock Your Handling Potential: Handler Fitness 101
This term, we're bringing a fresh glow to our strength training course with three tailo avenues, each featuring follow-along videos to suit your goals and fitness level. Whether you're just starting out or ready ...
Liz Joyce(Faculty)
Electives
FF240: Tricks for Titles
Did you know that you can now title your dog in Tricks?! Tricks aren’t just for fun anymore and this isn’t just another tricks class! Tricks have so many purposes including teaching your dog to enjoy training, sh...
Sara Brueske(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)
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...
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 ...
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 dissolv...
Erin Lynes(Faculty)
FF155: Go Ahead, Motivate Me! Engagement for the Differently Motivated Dog
This class has been created for handlers working with dogs who do not fit the traditional picture of a “work-oriented” dog. These are dogs who tend to be naturally independent, environmentally focused, or see...
Sharon Carroll(Faculty)
FF185: Ready and Resilient: From Puppy to Awesome Adult
Ready and Resilient: From Puppy to Awesome Adult Puppyhood: A magical time where we can ensure that the puppy we have will grow up to be perfect in every way - or at least, that's what a lot of people te...
Irith Bloom(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, creativit...
Julie Flanery(Faculty)
Obedience
OB135: TEAM Sports Foundations Level Two
This class continues on with the foundations begun in TEAM 1! This class is designed to cover all the exercises in the TEAM Level 2. The TEAM program systematically lays out the building blocks for dev...
Heather Lawson(Faculty)
OB160: Ring Confidence for Obedience, Rally, and Agility
This course is for anyone who trials in any sport! The lectures will specifically look at routines for agility as well as obedience and rally. Most handlers spend months or even years teaching their d...
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)
OB285: From TEAM to Trials: Building Skills & Chains for the Novice Ring
Have you been dabbling in obedience but hesitant to actually take it to the next level? Are heeling and the other skills overwhelming? Or maybe you even trialed and realized your dog doesn't know how to eng...
Laura Waudby(Faculty)
OB305: Fronts & Finishes: From Foundations to Fabulous!
There are lots of fronts and finishes in obedience! Fronts and finishes are incibly complicated. They consist of many pieces that all need to come together. Because they are so difficult, the error ratio te...
Petra Ford(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)
Other Dog Sports
DS250: Best in Class: Conformation Show Skills and Conditioning
Have you ever watched a breed ring dog show and thought, “That looks easy! It’s just walking in left handed circles and standing still”? Well, my friends....there’s actually a lot more to showing a dog successful...
Ashley Escobar(Faculty)
DS560: Retrievolution - Level One - Field Dog Core
Introducing the "Retrievolution Challenge!" A whole new way to enjoy retriever sport and training. All breeds and mixes are welcome. It's an exciting new endeavor with many levels and layers to disco...
Jennifer Henion(Faculty)
Rally & Freestyle
RA260: Get Ready to Rally - Foundation Skills
Discover the Joy of Rally: Build Skills, Confidence, and Connection! Are you ready to take your dog training to the next level while deepening your bond as a team? Welcome to Get Ready to Rally: Foundation Skill...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
RA550: Transitions and Flow - Creating Effective Sequences for Musical Freestyle Routines
Have you ever watched a freestyle performance that mesmerized you? Not because the dog was performing a lot of difficult or fancy tricks or because the handler had a great costume and danced well, b...
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)
NW160: Alerts - Developing and Problem Solving
This course is a handlers choice to work on improving your dog's detection alert. Does your dog need to have a specific alert behavior in order to compete in your nosework venue? Is your dog not committed...
Lucy Newton(Faculty)
NW175: Fun with FUNdamentals: Progress Games for Success
Every team is on a trajectory, and that trajectory either takes them down a path of success or down a path fraught with challenges. The difference along this path is rarely related to the problems that th...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW320: Motivating Drills for Maintaining Skills
Like many sports, Nosework benefits from having go-to drills that are easy to set up and rewarding to run. Well-designed drills help us maintain existing skills, reveal gaps in training, and highlight whe...
Julie Symons(Faculty)
NW455: Converging Odor Deep Dive
This class is ALL about Converging Odor... What IS Converging Odor? Converging Odor occurs when there is at least a partial overlap of scent cones from 2 or more hides. For a dog to work this skill e...
