Taking you and your dog to new heights!
Train with Stacy Online!Stacy teaches several classes each session through Fenzi Dog Sports Academy (FDSA). Classes at FDSA start the 1st of every other month, with registration available approximately a week in advance.
The next session starts:
October 1st, 2026.
Registration will open:
September 22nd.
Classes this Session
See descriptions below for more information.
N101S: NW101 – Introduction to Nosework
NW215: Air Flow Superpowers for the Developing Dog
NW380: Developing your Trial IQ – Reading the Nosework Dog
Registration Opens SEPT 22nd
Class Runs OCT. 1 – NOV. 11
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 shyness, reactivity, aggression, or a simple lack of confidence. Any dog can participate; from puppies to very old or retired dogs. In a matter of weeks, you’ll see your dog confidently ignoring distractions and focusing on the target scent; and by the end of the course, many of the dogs will be ready to compete for their ORT.
This course is unique in that your dog will NOT pair food with odor in order to teach odor; instead, we use the proven training method that produces the nation’s top drug and bomb detection dogs! Our backchaining method is effective on almost all dogs, from insecure and unfocused dogs to highly driven and intense workers. The proof is in the pudding; dogs going through only one or two levels of our courses are earning their ORT and NW titles in record time! Even if your dog has failed using other methods, we can help you succeed!
In this class, you will learn about the basic concepts in searching for odor, proper use of equipment, how to handle odor, how to make and place hides, and how to teach your dog the importance of odor obedience. You will also learn how to make the search for scent extremely important to your dog.
NOTE: This class will offer a Teaching Assistant (TA) who will be available to Silver and Bronze students in the Study Group. FDSA TA’s will answer questions and review videos in the Student Study Group.
Registration Opens SEPT 22nd
Class Runs OCT. 1 – NOV. 11
NW215: Air Flow Superpowers for the Developing Dog
Did you know that where and how you place your hides are some of the biggest predictors for well your dog will search? Did you also know that you need to be able to predict air flow to set an effective hide? Have you ever set a hide that you thought was going to be easy… but your dog struggled? This class will teach you how to harness the superpowers of air flow to help your developing dog to search at their very best!
Did you ever wish that you had Scent Goggles? Well since they haven’t yet been invented, we can strive for the next best thing!
We will learn and more importantly predict, how air will move around corners, up walls, and how it will swirl and pool… among all the other cool things that air does! And not only will your dog start to search way more effectively, but you will get way better at understanding the beautiful story that your dog is telling you about the odor’s behavior.
This class is so much more than scent theory and hide placement… it’s about setting hides to make your dog a stronger searching dog and to make YOU a more effective trainer and handler!
We will leverage the world around us… so get ready to get out to new places to set some thoughtful searches. Variety is essential in our sport! This class will help you to think about your search areas and will push you to get out of your predictable patterns.
Ultimately this class will help to build amazing, effective foundations for the dogs just starting in novel areas and will help more experienced, but still developing, dogs search faster with fewer missed hides or false alerts.
NOTE: This class will offer a Teaching Assistant (TA) who will be available to Silver and Bronze students in the Study Group. FDSA TA’s will answer questions and review videos in the Student Study Group.
Registration Opens SEPT 22nd
Class Runs OCT. 1 – NOV. 11
NW380: Developing your Trial IQ – Reading the Nosework Dog
This class is ALL ABOUT figuring out how to be prepared 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 really understand what your dog is doing in the scent. This class is CRITICAL for both beginners AND folks new to unknown number of hides… Can you tell how many scent cones your dog is searching? What about BLANK AREAS??
Did you know that part of knowing how to read your dog when he’s in odor is to also read him when he’s NOT in odor?
Do you know when to call Finish because you’ve found all of the hides?
Do you rely on a final response to tell you that your dog has found the hide?
We will address all of these and more!!
The trick to trialing is:
(1) bring a prepared dog
(2) manage the “mental game”, and
(3) read your dog!
If you want to be successful you need to have all of these, and none can be underestimated. This class will teach you how to be successful!
#1 and #2… is all about preparation and being in the moment…
Reading Your Dog though…..that’s an art and a science all rolled up together. In this class learn how to read YOUR dog by watching YOUR dog and OTHER dogs. Become a keen observer; Stacy will show you how!
KEY READING YOUR DOG DETAILS WE WILL COVER:
- Can you tell if your dog is at source?
- Critter or Odor?
- Pee sniffing!! When to move along… how to handle!
- Containers…. distraction or odor??
- Blank Rooms!!
- Blank Areas…. Vehicles, Exteriors, Containers!!
- Has you dog cleared an area of odor so you can feel confident to move along?
NOTE: This class will offer a Teaching Assistant (TA) who will be available to Silver and Bronze students in the Study Group. FDSA TA’s will answer questions and review videos in the Student Study Group.
Self Study Classes
Learn at your own pace with Self Study Classes! You get all the lectures and example videos from the original course all for only $50
Learn WHY your dog might be smashing boxes and learn HOW to fix it.
This class will lead you through diagnosis of your box smashing problem and then will give you the necessary steps to address the CORE ISSUE.
This class is designed with written assignments and thought provoking questions that students will use to discuss how to PLAN AND RUN a successful in person Nosework class.
PLEASE NOTE: This class will NOT teach how to teach Nosework… we have other classes for that! In fact, this class will be methodology agnostic… please feel free to participate regardless of your methods for introducing odor.
This self-study option is a series of three recorded webinars that work together. There are no written lectures. Webinars include:
- The Single Hide
- Multiple Hides
- Blank Areas