Fenzi Dog Sports Academy - Course Schedule

October 1, 2026

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)

AG300: Fast & Focused: Control Unleashed for Agility

When it comes to agility, the most successful agility dogs are the ones who can retain the best thinking brains. Whether it’s in the ring or outside of the ring, the agility environment can be a lot. That ...

Bronagh Daly(Faculty)

AG380: Agility Drills - Get a Responsive Dog!

Does your dog have a tendency to ignore your commands on course? Or "blow you off"? Do you feel you need clarity in the information you are giving to your dog? Is your dog a tunnel sucker? How do you fix it? I...

Loretta Mueller(Faculty)

Behavior

BH150: Management for Reactive Dogs

Are you fed up with "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 as you go along." Give yoursel...

Amy Cook, PhD(Faculty)

BH235: The Big Feelings Dog: Using Control Unleashed and Free Work to Build Resilience and Lower Arousal

Do you ever feel like you’ve tried everything to improve your dog’s big feelings, only to not experience that much change? Still bracing for the moment when you see another dog on the street, your dog disengages ...

Kim Palermo(Faculty)

BH295: Advancing Reactive Integration into the Real World

ADVANCING REACTIVE INTEGRATION TRAINING INTO THE REAL WORLD Class Introduction Does your dog respond to certain stimuli in ways you’d like to change? Do you see barking, lunging, spinning, high‑p...

Karen Deeds, CDBC (Faculty)

BH425: Harmony in the Household

Is there tension in your home? Do you dream of peaceful coexistence instead of grumbling, growling, snapping, or full‑blown conflict between the individuals who live together? Whether you’re dealing with a dog w...

Karen Deeds, CDBC (Faculty)

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)

CC350: Canine Fitness Circuit Training

This six-week Canine Fitness Circuit Training class is created to introduce dogs and handlers to a variety of fitness concepts through a structu circuit-training format. This class will have a TA. Each week will ...

Ashley Escobar(Faculty)

EL830: Prevent & Perform: Couch to 5K for the Handler

This Isn't Just a Running Plan If you've tried running before and thought, “Why is this SO hard?” you're exactly who I built this for. We're not going to send you outside and tell you to run until you can't any...

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)

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)

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

When you've got a puppy, there is a whole lot of excitement, so many hopes, dreams, and goals for the future... but also, SO MUCH to train! Where do you even begin? How do you prioritize what w...

Erin Lynes(Faculty)

FE240: Calling All Dogs

It is my passion to help humans and dogs develop stronger relationships based on games, sha adventures and maximizing our dogs' freedom while keeping them safe. A strong relationship and, built o...

Caden Cristopher(Faculty)

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)

Obedience

OB118: TEAM Sports Foundations Level Two

Feeling stuck, intimidated, or overwhelmed working on obedience skills with your dog? If you feel like you’re not sure what to train, or if what worked for your last dog isn’t working for this dog, this cla...

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

OB140: From Pivots to Practical Heeling

Build Beautiful Heeling Without the Stress Are you stuck on the pivot bowl? Maybe your dog has beautiful pivots on the bowl, but the minute you take the bowl away and ask them to pivot, they act like they have n...

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

OB155: Power Foundations: Building Confidence & Resilience

In this six-week class, we’ll explore the core foundation skills for competition and learn how to strengthen them in practical, engaging ways. Foundations are not “just for beginners.” They are the bedrock of eve...

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)

OB370: Reliable Retrieves

This class will cover all of the pieces needed to train a reliable obedience retrieve. We will begin by teaching each piece of the behavior chain including the hold and front position. Then we will work to put th...

Sara Brueske(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)

Rally & Freestyle

RA330: Movin' On Up: Skills and Signs for Master Rally

Master Rally Doesn’t Have to Feel Intimidating Did you know you can go from Novice to the Master class in just nine qualifying runs? It happens fast! By the time you reach Master, you’re suddenly looking at spi...

Nicole Wiebusch (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

Many teams stall after initial foundations: progress slows, motivation dips, and it can feel hard to know what to train next. This course keeps you moving forward with clear structure and purposeful exe...

Julie Symons(Faculty)

NW215: Air Flow Superpowers for the Developing Dog

Did you know that where and how you place your hides are some of the biggest pictors for well your dog will search? Did you also know that you need to be able to pict air flow to set an effective hide? &nbs...

Stacy Barnett(Faculty)

NW380: Developing your Trial IQ - Reading the Nosework Dog

This class is ALL ABOUT figuring out how to be prepa for a trial and learning the #1 most important skill in nosework... READING YOUR DOG! This class will give you the nuances that you need to...

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...

Lucy Newton(Faculty)

November 1, 2026

Behavior

B3000: Arousal Mobility - Pattern Games for Managing Arousal

3 WEEK CLASS - Does your dog struggle to settle, stay focused, or shift gears in exciting environments? This class is designed to help dogs learn arousal regulation utilizing the power of pattern games. This cour...

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

Body, Health & Fitness

C3007: Canine Flow Fitness: Dynamic Exercise Combinations

3 WEEK CLASS - Take your canine fitness training beyond single exercises and social-media trends. Canine Flow Fitness is an advanced 3-week online course for experienced dogs and handlers who are ready to build p...

Kelly Daniel(Faculty)

Foundations

F3000: Say What!? The Hows and Whys of Teaching Clean Verbal Cues

3 WEEK CLASS - Have you found it challenging to help your dog grasp verbal cues? Does it seem like your dog sometimes doesn’t recognize the verbal cues you’ve taught? Or perhaps verbal cues feel less relevant to ...

Julie Flanery(Faculty)

F3017: Not Yours! Building a Rock-Solid Food Refusal

3 WEEK CLASS - Could your dog stay in a down while someone drops food right in front of them, or even between their feet? Food refusal is one of those sport exercises that looks almost like a magic trick when it...

Sarah Rida(Guest Instructors)

F3018: Using Food in Training: Changing the Role Food Plays

3 WEEK CLASS - Whether our dog is mugging us for food, struggling to ignore food containers, or refusing to work when food isn’t visible, the underlying problem may be surprisingly similar: food itself has become...

Sharon Carroll(Faculty)

F3019: SPOT ON! Stations, Targets & Turn-Taking for Life and Sports

3 WEEK CLASS - Does your dog think dinner guests came for a personal greeting? Does “wait your turn” sound reasonable until another dog gets the cookie? Maybe you’d love a dog who can relax beside you at a café,...

Heather Lawson(Faculty)

F3020: No Pee Zone: Eliminating Elimination in Competition

3 WEEK CLASS - Some dogs are all business and focus on their task. Other dogs want to DO their business! Urine marking is a normal and instinctual behavior, but changing it can be very challenging once habit...

Julie Symons(Faculty)

Obedience

O3002: Upping your Game in Obedience

3 WEEK CLASS - I can’t even begin to guess how many times I’ve been told, or more often it’s that I’ve overheard, that obedience is boring. It’s not motivating. It's picle. It’s too uptight. And its true. Obed...

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

Scent Sports

N3005: Just Freeze It: Building Reliable Source Alerts

3 WEEK CLASS - A nose freeze can make it easier to call “ALERT!”, but it is not necessarily the right choice for every nose work team. This 3-week class is for teams that want to build, refine, or better understa...

Aleks Woodroffe(Faculty)

December 1, 2026

Agility

AG140: Building and Maintaining A Start Line

Many dogs begin their agility careers with a solid start line - only to see that behavior slowly unravel over time. Why does a reliable start line hold up for some dogs but not others? Why do some teams struggle,...

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! If your dog feels fine at home but struggles once the world gets involved, you are not alone. Barking or lunging on walks, freezing or scanning in new places, or just seem...

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)

BH205: Dopamine Dive - Box Feeding

The Dopamine Dive A Practical Tool for Building Confidence, Calm, and Lasting Behavior Change Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that shapes pleasure, motivation, attention, mood, and learning. As a key part of the...

Karen Deeds, CDBC (Faculty)

BH240: Working with Reactive and Hyper-aroused Dogs

In this class we focus on dogs who react in an active way to aspects of the environment (e.g. joggers, other dogs, cars, unfamiliar people, bicycles, children, skateboards, prey animals, etc.) or to the env...

Sharon Carroll(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)

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

Senior dogs are the best, aren't they? Mature, skilled, and in tune with us! But, this is also the life stage when a bit of worry starts to creep into our thoughts. Are they strong enough? Am I doing enough...

Erin Lynes(Faculty)

CC305: Sync and Select

Most fitness classes follow a "follow-the-leader" format where every dog performs the same repetition at the same time. Sync & Select breaks that mold. This is a "Handler’s Choice" curriculum designed for tho...

Kelly Daniel(Faculty)

EL880: Core Concepts for Canines and Handlers

Core strength is essential for absolutely everything that we, and our Canine teammates, do. From sitting, or standing still, lifting and moving limbs, to more complex whole body movements. The core musculatu...

Liz Joyce(Faculty)Kelly Daniel(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

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)

FF140: Connect and Engage with Games: Build Focus for Sport Dogs

Ready to build a dog who loves working with you — no matter what’s happening around them? Does your dog lose focus during training or in the competition ring? Maybe they start sniffing, checking out other dogs, ...

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

FF200: Let's Play!

Teaching Approach: New class! Registration courselist sessions FF200 module title="FF200 Subscriptions" /s

Crystal Wing(Faculty)

FF225: Energized Engagement

Engagement is the most challenging skill to achieve in dog training. It’s also easily the most important. An engaged dog is actively involved in the learning process and pushing you for more. When a dog is offeri...

Petra Ford(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, creativity,...

Julie Flanery(Faculty)

Obedience

OB130: TEAM Sports Foundations Level One

Have big obedience dreams, or want to dip your toe in and give obedience a try? This class will give you an excellent set of foundation skills for AKC, CKC, FCI obedience, or freestyle and it will help you prepar...

Heather Lawson(Faculty)

OB365: Open Obedience Fun - Putting the Pieces Together

Open 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 dogs. Your dogs ...

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)

Other Dog Sports

DS180: Introduction to Shed Antler Hunting

From Fetch to Go Find! Are you ready to take the leap into one of the fastest-growing dog sports out there? Shed hunting combines scent work, retrieving, and the great outdoors, and this cla...

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 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)

Rally & Freestyle

RA310: From Good to GREAT! Increasing Your Rally Scores

Increase Your Rally Scores with Confidence You love rally and enjoy training with your dog—but when it comes to your scores, something’s just not clicking. Maybe you’re losing points and you’re not sure why. May...

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)

Scent Sports

N101J: NW101 - Introduction to Nosework

Strong Foundations. Clear Communication. Odor-Driven Learning. Nosework is one of the fastest-growing dog sports for good reason — it’s fun, builds confidence, and is suile for dogs of all ages and temperamen...

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)

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)

NW480: Searching Strategies: A Roadmap to Success

This class is all about a ROADMAP TO SUCCESS…. What does that mean? It means that we will delve into how to build an outstanding search dog and then how to trial effectively. This class has been developed s...

Stacy Barnett(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 increas...

Lucy Newton(Faculty)

February 1, 2027

Behavior

BH170: Harnessing the Powers of Choice and Habit

Harnessing the Power of Choice and Habit A dog’s behavior matters. That’s true whether you are competing with your dog or just want a wonderful family companion. Understanding where your dog’s behavi...

Irith Bloom(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

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(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)

Electives

FF210: Brain Benders - Cognition & Thinking Games

Are you overwhelmed trying to come up with or at a loss for new ideas to stimulate your furry friend’s little mind? Is the weather too hot or miserable outside but your dog has too much energy to stay inside? Wel...

Heather Lawson(Faculty)

Foundations

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 im...

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

FF115: Control Games for All the Sports

This class teaches control and handler focus suile for a variety of dog sports. Using structu games, handlers will work on impulse control, focus, and responsiveness in the presence of distractions. The emphasis...

Course Schedule

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October 1, 2026

October 1, 2026

Nancy Gagliardi Little(Faculty)

Bronagh Daly(Faculty)

Loretta Mueller(Faculty)

Amy Cook, PhD(Faculty)

Kim Palermo(Faculty)

Karen Deeds, CDBC (Faculty)

Karen Deeds, CDBC (Faculty)

Kelly Daniel(Faculty)

Ashley Escobar(Faculty)

Liz Joyce(Faculty)

Heather Lawson(Faculty)

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

Erin Lynes(Faculty)

Caden Cristopher(Faculty)

Shade Whitesel(Faculty)

Laura Waudby(Faculty)

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

Petra Ford(Faculty)

Petra Ford(Faculty)

Sara Brueske(Faculty)

Erin Lynes(Faculty)

Nicole Wiebusch (Faculty)

Stacy Barnett(Faculty)

Julie Symons(Faculty)

Stacy Barnett(Faculty)

Stacy Barnett(Faculty)

Julie Symons(Faculty)

Lucy Newton(Faculty)