Sara Brueske, Faculty (Foundations, Electives, Disc Dog)
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Sara Brueske (she/her) has been training dogs since she was a young child, and has experienced a large variety of breeds and sports during that time. After graduating as a Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partner in 2011, she jumped into the professional dog training world. She began teaching group classes and private lessons at On the Run Canine Center in Minnesota. At the time she was also competing in agility, disc dog as well as fostering for local rescues.
In 2014, Sara was hired by Purina as a dog trainer to perform dog sport shows at Purina Farms in Grey Summit, Missouri. Her number of dogs quickly grew to fill the need of the job. Currently she has thirteen dogs of varying breeds and origins including a boston terrier mix, a papillion, several Australian koolies and Belgian Malinois. Sara and her dogs work to convince people to do more with their dogs, teach about responsible pet ownership and to get involved in the dog sport community.
After six years working as a full-time performer, Sara now teaches on the topic of dog sports full time. While disc dog and tricks are some of her specialities, she also is passionate about creating clear communication between handlers and their dogs as well as teaching how to build a solid foundation for any sport. Sara believes in positive reinforcement not only for dogs, but for their handlers as well. Her biggest joy in training is watching a handler and dog become partners and grow as a team.
Currently, Sara trains in the sports of disc dog, agility, IGP, mondioring, scentwork and dock diving as well as being a trick dog enthusiast. She actively competes in agility, mondioring, dock diving and is planning on trialing in scentwork soon.
Pronouns: Sara goes by she/her .
Sara Brueske's current and upcoming courses
Tricks with a Purpose
There are so many reasons why training tricks are beneficial to your dog, yourself and your relationship, tricks aren’t just for entertainment or rainy days anymore! Teaching tricks not only help our dogs learn how to learn but also teaches us how they learn as well. Tricks can be used to teach concepts that appear in competition behaviors allowing us to teach those final behaviors more efficiently and with fewer mistakes. Plus, they allow us to mentally and physically exercise our dogs along with teaching them body awareness and control.
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What's UpDog - Disc Game Strategies
Want to join in on the latest dog sport craze? Disc dog with the UpDog Challenge!
This unique disc competition is designed to encourage new players to get involved in this fun sport as well as test the skills and strategies of experienced disc dog teams. There are 11 unique games that we will focus on in this class: ThrowNGo, Far Out, 4WayPlay, Funkey, Spaced Out, Greedy, Boom!, Time Warp, Frizgility, 7up and Fireball. Each game tests different skills and all promote team work, fun and strategy.
Join multiple time UpDog International Finals Champion, Sara Brueske, to learn new skills and develop new strategies to bring to your next (or first!) UpDog Challenge competition.
Sara uses a combination of written lecture with short demonstration videos. Example rounds including scoring will be included in each lecture. All of the skill lectures will be released at the beginning of class and we will do deep dives into 2-3 games for the remaining weeks.
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