“I wanted to add more training at home but was struggling to do it in a meaningful way, I ended up doing too much or not enough. For Your K9’s online academy courses have helped me learn about thoughtful hide placement and isolate skills that I was trying to train with my dog.

Over the sessions we’ve completed we were able to uncover that some of the meds my dog was on was affecting her searching and by thin slicing/isolating the skills we were working on my dog, and improved health by changing meds, improved my dog’s odor obedience and problem-solving skills.

Nancy’s class format, with individual review of the uploaded videos, is great because you get areas to work specific to you and your dog vs. generic ‘one size fits all’ and you also gain insights from the other handlers/teams to round out the knowledge”.

“I just finished Nancy’s Elite Online Academy with my dog Blue. It is a great Zoom training alternative. But Online Academy provided us much more than just training while social distancing. It added at least three additional tools to our training bag, skills we don’t get during in-person classes.

First, I was able to learn, practice and improve my skills at hide placement. During in-person classes, you get the benefit of the instructor setting the hides, and the peace of mind that they are set appropriately. But in the Online Academy you have to set the hides yourself. This allowed me the benefit of Nancy’s input not only on executing the searches, but also on improving my hide placements to maximize our training. Overall, this improves my at-home training with my dog. Second, I felt the Online Academy gave me the benefit of a broader community of people and dogs to train with. I got to observe how other teams worked the exercise for the week, and just as importantly, I got the benefit of comments and input from my colleagues. I felt like I gained a broader community of “training buddies. Finally, the Online Academy gave me the chance to watch the videos of my dog and me work each week. I got to see things I didn’t realize I was doing, or things I didn’t remember doing.”