Nancy Gagliardi Little, Faculty (Foundations, Agility, Obedience)
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Nancy Gagliardi Little (she/her) has been training dogs since the early 1980s, when she put an OTCH on her Novice A dog, a Labrador retriever. Since then she has put many advanced obedience titles on her dogs, including 4 AKC OTCH titles, 6 UD titles, 3 UDX titles, and multiple championships in herding and agility. Her dogs have been nationally ranked in the top 3 placements in obedience and agility and have earned multiple placements in national agility and obedience competitions.
Nancy is a retired obedience judge, having judged all obedience classes from 1986-2008. She enjoyed judging around the country and had the honor of judging 3 National obedience tournaments in Florida, Kentucky, and North Carolina. She retired from judging to spend more time training her own dogs and competing in obedience, herding, and agility.
Nancy draws from her experience training and competing in multiple sports, which has given her insight into innovative and creative ways of training and handling dogs. She finds that most trainers have no issues training the "big picture," but they tend to lose sight of some of the little details that are the building blocks to the communication and the relationship between them and their dogs. She loves working with very different challenges and trying to help people find a way to improve their communication with their partners.
She started out training her dogs more traditionally in obedience. But she has dramatically changed all training into reward based/positive methods. As a result, she understands the challenges faced by "crossover" trainers and dogs, and can help handlers find their way to newer and more positive training techniques.
Nancy's website is https://nancygagliardilittle.com/ and her blog is https://nancygagliardilittle.com/blog/
Pronouns: Nancy goes by she/her.
Nancy Gagliardi Little's current and upcoming courses
Build & Maintain 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, even when the dogs were trained the same way and handled by the same person?
Precision Charged Weaves - Handler Choice
Did you miss registration for “AG315 - Precision Charged Weaves Poles” last session? Did you take the class, and would you like to continue to get feedback on your weave progress? This handler’s choice class allows you to take the class to teach your dog how to weave from the ground up, or retrain your dog’s weave performance. If you took the class in the previous session, you can continue to train on what we have already started in class. Bronze students will get feedback from my popular teacher’s assistant, Heather Sather. Gold and Silver students get feedback from me.
Unstick the Stuck Heeling
Are you and your dog struggling with heeling? Do you and your dog have nice heeling when you train, but the performance falls apart when you leave the comfort of home? Have you been stuck with the same problem for a while and have no idea how to move forward?
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