Online Tricks Advanced – Self-Study

Ready for some impressive tricks?

This Advanced Trick Dog Course is structured after the AKC’s Advanced Trick test. This self-study class will give you all the pro tips needed to train some awesome tricks! You’ll have the opportunity to earn your AKC Advanced Trick Dog title. Upon enrollment, you’ll gain immediate access to all the detailed demonstration videos which will guide you as you train each trick. 
 
Students typically take about 6 weeks to work their way through all the exercises. At the
You’ll have 90 days from the date of enrollment to send in your video demonstrating the tricks you’ve trained.  
 
If you are able to complete videos of 10 of the required tricks by the end of class, you’ll earn your official AKC Trick Dog Intermediate title! We’ll provide the official AKC verification form and a gorgeous ribbon!
 
If you are able to complete a graduation video showing 10 of the required tricks by the end of class, you’ll earn your official AKC Trick Dog Advanced title! We’ll provide your official AKC verification form and a gorgeous ribbon!
  • Novice and Intermediate level tricks skills
  • Class Fee – $84
  • Immediately after enrolling you’ll have access to the full online course.
  • Includes video submission for one dog – instructor will verify additional dogs for $25 each.
  • Note: this self-study class does not include coaching or feedback. Virtual private lessons are available, if needed. 

PLEASE NOTE: You will have separate logins for our Online Learning platform and our In-Facility Programs. 

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Course Curriculum

Welcome

Get Ready to Train!

Back Up

Circle Right / Circle Left

Head Down

Go Hide

Dance

Walking Leg Weave 

Intro

Intro Pivot

Intro Play Dead

Walk on Hind Legs

Intro Flat Item Fetch

Continue Back Up

Continue Pivot

Treat on Nose

Pickpocket

Flat Item Retrieve

Continue Dance

Sit or Down at 15 Feet

Toys to Box

Touch Light

Revisit Say Your Prayers

Revisit Play Dead

Fetch Tissue

Retrieve Flat Item

Pay for It!

Revisit Leg Weaves

Final Leg Weaves

Final Pivot!

Your Instructor

  • Victoria Johnson

    Victoria is a trainer for Manners classes, Puppy Preschool, Barn Hunt and private lessons.  After joining the WAGD team in 2020, she completed WAGD’s Trainer Education Program and the Karen Pryor Academy Foundations course.  Absolute Dogs’ Pro Dog Trainer and Pro Dog Trainer Geek programs were completed in 2021 and she is enrolled in their ongoing Training Academy and PDT Club focusing on positive games-based concept training.

    Victoria discovered WAGD in 2017, where she worked her rescue Chi/Terrier, Audrey, through Manners, Agility, and Tricks classes and attained several tricks titles.  She currently works with Audrey and her other Chi/Terrier rescue, River, in Barn Hunt, Tricks, and Freestyle.  River, too, has earned multiple Tricks titles.

    Exposure and hands-on experience in dog conformation, breeding, and training of Standard Schnauzers during her early years kicked off her love of working with animals.  Numerous dogs (rescues, mixed breeds, and purebreds) have been owned, trained, and cared for.  In over a decade of equine riding, training, and competing, Victoria developed an affinity for working with “hard case” horses using natural horsemanship methods.  This desire to work with animals who have challenges naturally spilled over to dogs.

    While completing a Bachelor of Science degree in Speech—Language Pathology and Audiology at UT-Dallas, she worked at a doggie daycare/boarding facility that also assisted in temporary fostering for a rescue group.  She had many opportunities to observe dog behaviors in group settings and help dogs overcome struggles they were facing such as fear and anxiety.  Through both formal and informal studying and experiences, Victoria has acquired a particular fondness for working to build confidence and optimism in dogs through utilizing rewards-based methods within a concept framework to build solid relationships between owners, their dogs, and the world around them.