Webinar Presentations
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Webinars will run approximately 1-2 hours including presentation and questions.
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Kelly Daniel - PREhab: Essential skills for IF or WHEN you need rehabilitation
Date: Thursday, January 9th, 2025
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Performance dog’s require a large range of training. It’s not just all about sports specific training. Most sports dogs will have more medical and body related professional care than pet dogs. Also performance dogs owners are often more knowledgeable about correct movement and form, they are often able to pick up issues early. Many performance dogs will need some form of rehabilitation over their lives. From a strain or sprain to orthopaedic surgery, unfortunately it is somewhat likely!
There are a large number of skills that training BEFORE you dog needs them will make rehabilitation much smoother, faster, and less stressful. And the great thing is, that even if your dog never needs rehabilitation, these skills are still transferable to other medical care, husbandry, and fitness.
This webinar will cover training a range of skills relevant to rehabilitation including cooperative care, managing a dogs body in recovery, and foundation fitness skills that will likely be a part of exercise rehabilitation.
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Bronagh Daly - Success Over Stress: Working with The Sensitive Agility Dog
Date: Thursday, January 9th, 2025
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Do you have a dog who can become very sensitive during your agility training? Do they struggle with perceived failures or being “wrong” even when they aren’t? Or do they struggle to repeat sequences or learning new skills that involve repetition or trying something new?
This sensitivity can come out in a myriad of ways. We are going to cover topics applicable to those sensitive dogs that do stress down as well as those who stress up or stress into specific traits, such as sniffing, stalking, barking, etc.
Throughout this webinar, we will go over strategies to make your sensitive dog walk away from training sessions feeling GREAT! Along with these specific strategies and set ups, we will also go through reasons why our dogs may become sensitive during training and ways to mitigate that. We will also go through what that sensitivity itself may look like so that you can be proactive in the future.
We will go through strategies both for at home training as well as seminars, classes, and trials.
You will walk away from this webinar, feeling armed with new tools to help balance out your training and leave everyone feeling more cool and confident!
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Jennifer Henion - Retriever sports: Indoor Games for Outdoor Success
Date: Thursday, January 16th, 2025
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Learn about 6 Super Fun games that mimic real, complex field skills! And you can do it all INDOORS!
The best way to get great at Retriever Hunt Test skills, is to practice on a small scale in easy environments. Once you have that layer, it's much easier to grow the skill in bigger places.
This webinar will show you 5 indoor games:
- Line Mechanics & Self Control for multiple marks
- Target Casting & Whistle Sits Game
- From Holding Blind to the line - with exciting temptations
- Poison Bird, bumper, bowl games!
- Hide & Run the Blind Game
- Honoring Game
All of these games can be easily played inside your house. No special equipment required! I'll show you how to make an indoor holding blind.
What's great, is how easy it is to transition these games to outdoors when the time comes. They are simple, yet use multiple skills. You can start easy but build up to advanced levels of difficulty.
Need your own game to tackle a challenge? We will discuss how to use my gamification formula to break down your challenge, and build a game that helps you solve it.
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Sara Brueske - Raising them Right: Early Training for Puppies
Date: Thursday, January 16th, 2025
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
If you are a breeder, foster to litters or have a young puppy in the house, this webinar is for you. We will discuss how to start your puppies off on the right paw, ensuring that they have the confidence and knowledge to be successful in their future endeavors. This webinar will give a guideline to proper environmental and interactive socialization as well as exercises to arm your puppies with the tools to learn any task. This foundation is essential to any puppy destined to a performance career.
Note: This webinar is back by popular demand. Please check your webinar library to avoid a duplicate purchase.
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Karen Deeds - Don’t Settle for Less When ‘Settling’ Can Bring You So Much More!
Date: Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Does your dog get aroused or react negatively when they see a car? A cat? An inanimate object? Another dog? A stranger?
This concept is nothing new and you are likely familiar with a similar procedure to help your dog be calmer in various situations. For the reactive dog, we are hoping to reduce your dog’s blood pressure, cortisol levels, and heart rate with this process. A lower base line keeps your dog from going over threshold as easily.
The primary goal of this exercise is to facilitate your dog to be calmer and less reactive in certain situations. Not every situation is suitable for this approach and there are certain parameters for its use. We can create a variety of different cues for the behavior; verbal, visual, tactile, environmental, or location. We will cover the foundation skills required to apply this process to your behavior modification plan. Reinforcement strategies, impulse control, response to leash pressure, and attention to the handler will all be covered in this webinar.
This skill is very helpful whether you are bringing in a new dog to your existing family or working to create or re-establish harmony within your household with your current crew! (Intra-housemate conflict) It is also a big piece of the puzzle when working with reactivity towards unfamiliar dogs, people, and in novel environments. Watching the world go by with nothing bad and lots of good happening has helped many students. The application of this process within a behavior modification plan is instrumental in creating a more positive association to their dogs' triggers.
This webinar will show how we can use a ‘settle’ behavior within a differential reinforcement procedure to create an alternative or incompatible behavior that we can then include in the process of desensitization and counter conditioning.
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Chris Zink, DVM - Complementary and Integrative Medicine: What is it? How Does it Work?
Date: Thursday, January 23rd, 2025
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Once called "alternative" medicine, complementary and integrative medicine is no longer alternative! These preventive modalities and healing therapies include knowledge and techniques that are often not included in a traditional veterinary school education, but nevertheless contribute to the health and wellness of our canine companions. They are "complementary and integrative" because they don't replace traditional veterinary medicine, but add to the whole health of the dog. Over time, there is more and more scientific evidence for these therapies, and they often become mainstream. For example, laser therapy was once considered "complementary" but is now considered part of standard care by every rehabilitation professional.
In this webinar, Chris will discuss the evidence basis for chiropractic, acupuncture, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, photobiomodulation, herbal therapy, massage, and pulsed electromagnetic therapy and will briefly introduce other types of complementary therapy including homeopathy, energy therapies, and aroma and sound therapies.
All of us want to create the most healthy world for our dogs. Complementary and integrative therapies can put power into the hands of each of us to provide our dogs with a more complete healing environment.
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Jerri Scherff - Clicks & Tricks: Unlocking Your Social Media Potential
Date: Thursday, January 30th, 2025
Time: 3pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
Are you ready to finally improve your social media presence and understand the complicated world of some of these platforms?? Join us for a one-hour webinar that promises to be as entertaining as it is informative, complete with a 30-minute Q&A where you can ask all your burning questions—like why your cat gets more likes than you do!
What You’ll Learn:
Algorithms Demystified: Ever wondered what an algorithm is? Is it a fancy word for a secret society? Spoiler: it’s not! I’ll break it down, discuss how many versions exist (hint: more than your relatives' opinions), and how they vary by platform.
The Essentials: Think of your bio as the Tinder profile for your brand. We’ll cover how to make it irresistible, how to use links effectively, and why analytics are your new best friend (sorry, not sorry, to your actual friends).
Growth Strategies that Spark Joy: Discover the delicate balance between engagement and growth. We’ll help you figure out how to keep your audience entertained without resorting to cat memes (unless that’s your thing).
Content Creation Magic: What’s new in the world of posts? How do carousels work without making you dizzy? We’ll also dive into short-form videos and what makes content pop—without the cringe-factor.
Comment Section Shenanigans: Learn how to engage with your community like a pro, how to handle negative comments (block, delete, and pretend they never existed), and why direct messaging is like sliding into DMs without the awkwardness.
Avoiding Cult-like Behavior: We’ll show you how to build a community without turning into that group of people who only talk about their kombucha recipes using some sort of secret language.
Key Takeaways:
- Focus on one platform as your social media engine—don’t try to be a multi-platform octopus before you’re ready! You might lose an arm!
- Consistency is key—keep it real and keep it you.
- Find a buddy to give you feedback—preferably one who doesn’t watch your stories on mute!
Don’t miss out on this chance to gain practical tips and have some fun along the way. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to spice up your existing strategy, this webinar is for you!
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Denise Fenzi - Touchy Heely: Contact Heeling for Ringsport, Behavior work and life!
Date: Thursday, January 30th, 2025
Time: 6pm Pacific Time (Click here for time at FDSA (Pacific Time).
Fee: $19.95 USD
"Contact heeling" means teaching your dog to maintain physical contact with your body while also allowing them the freedom to look around. You might be moving, standing still, sitting in a chair, or completing a task, and your dog will press against you to maintain contact! While originally trained for the Sports of French and Mondio Ring, this skill is useful in crowded environments, during training classes, or between working exercises...anywhere dogs frequently lose contact with their handler. In behavior work, contact heeling can allow both you and your dog to observe the environment while simultaneously retaining physical awareness of each other. So many uses!
Unlike precision heeling, there is no expectation of eye contact or a precise position at the handler's side. Indeed, the dog can be taught to rotate all the way around the handler - the only criteria is continuous physical contact. As a result, contact heeling can be relaxing and enjoyable for both parties.
Sound useful? It is! Join Denise Fenzi and learn how she teaches contact heeling, along with a discussion of the varied ways she uses this skill in both training and in daily life.
Note: This webinar is back by popular demand. Please check your webinar library to avoid a duplicate purchase.
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