Webinar Presentations
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Webinars will run approximately 1-2 hours including presentation and questions.
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Kim Palermo - Fighting Like Cats & Dogs: How to Create Harmony Between Species
Date: Thursday, April 3rd, 2025
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Whether you’re currently living with both cats and dogs, or are considering introducing a new four-legged member into your family, Kim can help you create harmony between multiple species. Cats and dogs can get along wonderfully, or they can wreak havoc on the peace in your household. Issues can derive from prey-driven impulses, resource guarding, fearfulness, or simply a difference in energy, preferences, or opinions.
After being a dog person her entire life, Kim successfully introduced a kitten into her household of five dogs in 2018, and has since introduced three more puppies into the family. Using management strategies, meeting needs, and implementing training techniques, Kim has not only maintained a harmonious household, but has built a relationship between her dogs and cat that include enjoying time together, going to work together, and even using her cat to socialize her clients’ dogs. Her three most powerful tools for a happy family that she'll discuss are Control Unleashed games, management techniques, and the use of ACE Free Work (being introduced by Kim for the first time at FDSA!)
This webinar will tackle how to work with both species to create balance at home. And if you have other or additional species, this will apply to you as well! Kim will include examples of how she’s integrated her flock of chickens, ducks, and turkeys, and a pet mouse into the family as well.
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Chris Zink, DVM - Picking a Puppy: 4 Steps to Evaluate Puppy Structure
Date: Thursday, April 3rd, 2025
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
In this webinar, Chris will walk you through how to set up (stack) puppies so you get a consistent stance for evaluation of structure (it’s not as hard as it might seem), and the 4 main structural features to examine, whether you are picking a puppy for performance or as your next show dog. She will use lots of photos and drawings to help you understand what to look for and why those particular structural features are important to your new partner’s future.
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Petra Ford - Train to Trial
Date: Thursday, April 10th, 2025
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
We’ve all been there. Our dog does amazing work at home. They know all the exercises. We are excited. My dog is ready!
We enter a trial only to watch things fall apart. What happened?
In this webinar I will talk about the pieces we need for a successful transition from training to competing. I will discuss how to train your dog to confidently handle distractions and pressure. We'll cover topics like chaining, reducing reinforcement, and working without a reinforcer on your body. Finally, I will discuss the importance of handling for success. Your dog does not need to be ring ready to apply these concepts. I begin many of these steps when my dog is young, long before I’m thinking of going in the ring. And I maintain them throughout the dog’s career. Join me to ensure that your dog is ready to succeed in the ring.
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Denise Fenzi - Gaming the System: Develop Your Creative Training Potential!
Date: Thursday, April 10th, 2025
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Incorporating creativity into your training plan is critical if you want your dog to remain excited and focused on the training game even when there are no cookies or toys to magnetize your dog. Creative training gives your dog an innate reason to pay attention - the work is interesting! Your dog doesn’t know what might happen next! The solution to the puzzle may not be obvious! And while you’re at it, you'll develop resilience and persistence - it’s okay to be wrong!
But wait, there’s more! There’s the handler as well. When you incorporate creative strategies into your training, you’ll begin to think in new ways and quite likely find holes in your training before they become problems. You will find yourself looking forward to your training, and enjoying the game that training should be!
This webinar will provide plenty of video examples of creative training, along with ideas to help you come up with your own creative training plans. You can learn to be more creative.
Join Denise in this webinar, and find yourself itching to train your dog.
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Shade Whitesel - Push to Play-Introducing offered behaviors to your training language
Date: Thursday, April 17th, 2025
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Want speedy, confident obedience skills out of your dog? Want focus? Want your verbal/physical cue to be an “opportunity” not a “have to”? (and with that “opportunity” comes FAST, FAST and more FAST) Want your dog to PUSH you to train/play?
How’s that down on recall? Levitation elbows? Slow, with lots of steps after the cue? Or lots of anticipation of the down?
Or, you’ve done such a great job getting your dog addicted to shaping, that the dog offers all the things ALL THE TIME, no cue needed, anytime. It’s adorable. But how to get something on cue when you don’t want all those dancing footsies?
And what about the barking? Someone told you that barking raised arousal, right? And arousal equals speed. And now your dog won’t shut up and you need to get them ring ready (in 2021, right?!) and they are doing the bark and heel. Or the bark and down…..
I can help! I really want to show you how to make your dog like those difficult skills, whether prompted or shaped, how to offer them fast and confidently, and then, how to put them on cue.
Encouraging offered behaviors adds to your training language, adds to your tool box of communication skills with your dog. It also allows you to “fix” behaviors that are deteriorating, due to trialing or sequencing. I’ll teach you clear protocols so that both you and your dog know when to try all the things and when to listen, easy clear steps on how to get offered behavior in the first place, and how to work through all the distractions, handler and environment, in the shaping/offered phase, rather than after the behavior skill is named.
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David Lane, DVM, DACVSMR, CCRT, CVSMT, CVA - Canine Gerontology: Caring for the Oldies
Date: Thursday, April 17th, 2025
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
This webinar gives an overview of canine gerontology, with an emphasis on understanding the physical and mental changes that affect older dogs, and what owners can do to maximize the amount of quality time left with their pet. It also looks at ways to measure quality of life, and decide when it is time to consider euthanasia.
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