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About Stacy

Stacy Bols opened Proof Positive Dog Training in 2007. She has 20 years of dog training experience and more than 14 years of agility training experience. Stacy has competed successfully with both large and small dogs in various venues over the course of her competitive career and her students range from Border Collies to Labradors to Pugs and many in between.

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Kermit is her newest agility dog, a miniature schnauzer imported from Russia. Just starting out in her agility career is already taking 4 venues by storm competing in AKC, USDAA, UKI and ASCA. So far in her young career she has achieved the following, 2017 USDAA Cynosports Grand Prix champion, 2017 USDAA Cynosports Steeplechase Finals 2nd place, completed her UKI championship, MACH4, ADCH, competed in the 2017 UKI US Open, 2018 AKC Agility Nationals in Reno, 2018 and 2019 AKC Agility Invitational.

Stacy’s 2nd agility dog, Krusher (miniature schnauzer), is a dual venue champion being the first miniature schnauzer in all of USDAA to achieve ADCh-Gold and LAA-Gold and has also completed his MACH7. Stacy and Krusher was a member of the 2014 IFCS World Team representing the United States in the Netherlands, 2011 AKC Agility Nationals 12” Finalist, the #6 Schnauzer in 2010 AKC TopDogs rankings and participated in the 2011 AKC Invitational also making the finals in Orlando, Florida. Krusher also attended the 2011 AKC World Team Tryouts. In 2012 we attended USDAA Cynosports Nationals and were a finalist in Performance Grand Prix finishing 4th overall. Krusher loss his battle to cancer in 2016.

Kassie, Stacy’s rescue Border Collie was a 2011 & 2013 AKC Agility National 20” Finalist, 2016 AKC Agility National P16" Challengers Round and a 2010/ 2012/2016 USDAA National Steeplechase semi-finalist, won gold in PVP Jumpers at 2016 Cynosports at 11 years old . Kassie is also a dual venue champion MACH2/PACH and an ADCh-Bronze LAA-Bronze/PDCH. Kassie now joins Krusher at the Rainbow Bridge.

Payment, Deposit and Refund Information

  • A deposit of 50% of the seminar is required to hold your spot. 

  • Full payment for the seminar is due by the hard closing date of the seminar. 

  • A cancellation fee of $10 will be applied if cancelling between the soft closing date and the hard closing date. 

  • A full refund will be given any time before the soft closing date.

  • NO REFUNDS will be given after the hard closing date. 

  • Refunds are completely up to the discretion of the seminar host - in certain cases of illness, death, acts of God, etc. full or partial refunds may be given on the day of the seminar in form of account credit, cash, PayPal, etc.  

  • Spots may be sold/given to friends if a participant cannot come and the payment will be the responsibility of the original participant.

Soft closing date: February 1st

Hard closing date: February 8th

Fancy Skills and Drills - International Level
Friday, February 16th, 3:30 - 7:30 pm **dinner included: pizza and salad**
**working spots full**
unlimited audit spots

$140 per team (**fee includes pizza and salad for dinner!)

$50 per audit spot (**fee includes pizza and salad for dinner!)

We will be working on building the handler’s confidence and dog’s understanding of backside jump sends with some fancy handling thrown in the mix! If you want to show in AKC premiere or International type courses, this is the workshop for you! **Dogs must be able to do jumps and tunnels and be showing or training at the open/masters level**

Fancy Skills and Drills - AKC Premiere Level
Saturday, February 17th, 9 am - 12:30 pm
2/6 working spots available
unlimited audit spots available

$135 per team

$45 per audit spot

This is the same topic as Friday, but we will be working with a different course!

 

We will be working on building the handler’s confidence and dog’s understanding of backside jump sends with some fancy handling thrown in the mix! If you want to show in AKC premiere or International type courses, this is the workshop for you! **Dogs must be able to do jumps and tunnels and be showing or training at the open/masters level**

Open/Advanced Handling
Saturday, February 17th, 1:30 - 5 pm
1/6 working spots available
unlimited audit spots

$135 per team

$45 per audit spot

This seminar will focus on sequences often seen in open level courses.  Teams will learn how to set lines and clean up their handling.  This workshop is appropriate for dogs and handlers who are a bit past novice, but are still working towards that masters level! Teams will focus on giving accurate and precise information to the dog in order to run fast and clean!  **dogs must be able to sequence jumps and tunnels**

Masters Handling Workshop
Sunday, February 18th, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
4/6 working spots available
unlimited audit spots available

$135 per team 

$45 per audit spot

This seminar is perfect for teams who are currently training and showing at the masters level in agility. We will work on sequences and courses commonly seen in the masters class of agility. 

Seminar topics! 

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