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Agility
AG110: Intro to Agility - Handling Basics
Are you familiar with dog sports but new to agility? Feel out of place in a beginner’s class but not sure where to learn the basics for this sport? Been in agility for awhile but feel like your founda...
Loretta Mueller(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)
AG205: Creating Confident Commitment
Commitment in agility is one of the building blocks of a great team. A higher level of commitment from your dog allows you to trust them to do their job and you can better help them to understand thei...
Laurie Huston(Guest Instructors)
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)
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)
BH230: Control Unleashed - A Deep Dive into Pattern Games
Bring the power of Control Unleashed into your training with this deep dive into CU Pattern Games! Control Unleashed is a program that was founded by Leslie McDevitt to help dogs adapt to and live comforly in our...
Kim Palermo(Faculty)
BH345: On Guard – Working Through Resource Guarding Issues
Although resource guarding of food objects is a normal behavior in dogs, it can escalate to an abnormal state, which is of great concern to members of the household, both human and other pets. It can also ...
Karen Deeds, CDBC (Faculty)
Body, Health & Fitness
CC160: Canine Sports Medicine for the Performance Dog Handler
There are many musculoskeletal injuries that can occur to performance dogs. Some are subtle and come on gradually. We are not really sure if there is something wrong. Some are acute and come on ...
Sue Yanoff, DVM(Guest Instructors)
CC190: Caring for Your Star Athlete
This class is going to take an in depth look at an integrated approach to your canine athletes physical and emotional wellbeing. This will include: home life, emotions and behavior, competition and training, phys...
Kelly Daniel(Faculty)
CC290: Dogs With Long Backs - Things You Need To Do
Long backs in dogs come in many shapes and sizes. There are many long backed breeds, such as Daschunds, Corgis, Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, and many more. Thee are also many breeds th...
Debbie (Gross) Torraca(Faculty)
EL830: Prevent & Perform: Couch to 5K for the Handler
Have you struggled with starting a running routine only to be sidelined by injuries or a lack of motivation? Imagine transforming your running experience with expert guidance that helps you prevent injuries and s...
Liz Joyce(Faculty)
Electives
FE600: Shoot the Dog!
Did you get a new camera and aren’t sure how to take photos of your dog that aren’t one big blur? Do you want to get out of Auto mode on your expensive cam...
Amy Johnson(Faculty)
FE660: Chase the Dog - Photographing Dogs in Motion
Are you frustrated with blurry or poorly lit photos of your energetic pup? Photographing dogs in action can be a challenging task, but with the right techniques and tools, it can also be ...
Amy Johnson(Faculty)
RA590: Tricked into Freestyle: From Foundation to Fantastic!
Are you ready to add some paw-zazz to your trick training? Ti of the same old tricks of spins and weaves? Let’s kick it up a notch! We’ll take the basics and transform them into an array of awesome tricks and beh...
Julie Flanery(Faculty)
Foundations
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)
FE415: Zen Logic - Making Sense of Self Control
What is Zen Logic? The title Zen Logic has two meanings. First, Zen Logic is a training approach based on the concept that giving up what you want can lead to an even better outcome than directly goin...
Deborah Jones(Faculty)Judy Keller(Faculty)
FE515: Hound About Town - Lifestyle Skills and Manners Training
Learn the skills and manners that will help to prepare you and your dog for your worldly adventures. These skills will also prepare you to take the Canine Good Neighbour (CGN), Canine Good Citizen (CGC) or Urban ...
Heather Lawson(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 wor...
Sara Brueske(Faculty)
FF160: The PROOF is in the Training: Building Strong Behaviors
Consistent. Reliable. Confident. We’ve all seen those dogs who seem to have a perfect understanding of the job they’re being asked to do — whether in the obedience ring, working as a therapy dog, or that g...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
Obedience
OB115: TEAM Sports Foundations - Level One
Interested in obedience or rally? This isn't a class full of heeling around in circles. Learn about using foot targets, fancy pivoting, teach scent articles, an independent back up, start a go out, and mo...
Laura Waudby(Faculty)
OB335: Gloves and Go-Outs!
Do you dream of doing fancy obedience work someday? No need to wait until you’ve slogged through novice! We can start splitting down the parts for even the most advanced exercises right ...
Laura Waudby(Faculty)
OB460: Shaping a Flashy and Confident Heel - Foundations
Do you have “heeling envy”? Do you see all those prancing dogs in perfect position looking up at their handlers and wish you could teach your dog THAT? Does your dog love the pivot platform, but how DO you get fr...
Shade Whitesel(Faculty)
OB480: Train to Trial
How do I get the same performance in training and in the ring? That is one of the most common challenges in competitive sports. It is something everyone struggles with. “My dog ONLY does that in...
Petra Ford(Faculty)
OB485: Step it Up: Advanced Heeling for Competition
In this class we will be challenging the dog AND handler to step up their game! We will use fun games to build and maintain drive, engagement and precision. When heeling is well-trained, the majority of points lo...
Petra Ford(Faculty)
Other Dog Sports
DS110: Dryland Dock Diving Training- Foundation, Fitness and Fixes!
Are you interested in dock diving and want to give your dog a great foundation before you even hit the pool? Or perhaps you’ve been to the pool with your dog and things didn’t go as well as you expected. OR...
Erin Lynes(Faculty)
DS180: Introduction to Shed Antler Hunting
Searching for and retrieving antlers- either as a pursuit in the wild or for competition- is one of the fastest growing activities that appeals to a large variety of dogs. In this class, I'll provide you with a r...
Erin Lynes(Faculty)
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 land handed circles and stand position?” There is a lot more to showing a dog in the breed ring than just showing up in fancy c...
Ashley Escobar(Faculty)
DS340: Disc Dog - Handler's Choice
Disc dog is an amazing sport that has a variety of elements suile for any toy-driven dog. This hybrid “handler’s choice” course will allow each team to work on the aspects of disc dog that suit them best but will...
Sara Brueske(Faculty)
Rally & Freestyle
RA320: Rally: Beyond the Basics
Your dog has great rally skills in your living room, but now you’re not sure what to do next! How do you progress toward your goals? What’s involved in going from your small training area to an en...
Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)
RA511: Positions, Laterals and Backing
In Rally-FrEe and musical freestyle there are four primary positions: Left heel, right heel, standing center and behind facing the handler. While maintaining position, the dog is requi to move in any dire...
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)
N120S: NW120 - Introduction to NW Search Elements
Did you know that the MOST important time in a dog's early career in Nosework happens AFTER they learn target odor (as in NW101) and BEFORE they start their general searching? Making mistakes now are costly. &nbs...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW225: Rise Above: Resilience in Scentwork Environments
Rising above environmental challenges can be the hardest part for our dogs. Scentwork dogs face more than the average sport—working inside, outside, on different surfaces, and in infinite setups and surroundings....
Julie Symons(Faculty)
NW230: Polishing Skills for NW2 and NW3
Want to take your Nosework skills to the next level? Moving up to NW2 and NW3 means new and more challenging skills. Hides at these levels start to get more complicated so it's essential to level up your trainin...
Stacy Barnett(Faculty)
NW485: Air Flow! Your Training Superpower
What do you get when you combine air movement, target odor, strategic hide placement, and setup strategy? You get a dog who understands how to search effectively! Dogs naturally understand what odor is. However,...
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...
Lucy Newton(Faculty)
TR102: Foundation Tracking 2
This course will continue to develop both drive and accuracy on foundation tracks. Our priority for this class will be to further develop the skills that the dog acqui in TR101. We will work towards incre...
