Events & Seminars
Fusion Pet Retreat’s training center offers various events and seminars on a regular basis. We are happy to partner with different community organizations to offer various events. We also offer Seminars taught by our qualified instructors in different topics including agility, behavior, and more.
Cancellation Policy for Seminars: All seminars are non-refundable unless we can fill your spot.
All events & seminars are hosted in the comfort of a climate-controlled 11,000 sq. ft. indoor facility.
Upcoming Seminar and Events
Mini Seminars with Courtney Moore
Dates: Tuesday-Wednesday, August 26-27th
Cost: $130 – working spot, $25 – auditing spot
About Courtney:
Courtney has been training dogs for over 25 years. She has taught and competed in most dog sports and in addition to being an avid competitor, she is also a well-known and highly respected judge for both AKC and UKI Agility. She has a deep understanding of how dogs and their humans navigate courses, and she can help each team understand the best handling paths for them. As an instructor she is fun and flexible and can teach within any handling system. Courtney has competed with multiple dogs across all organizations, both in the US and Internationally. Courtney and her dog, Butter, have been members of multiple word teams and are the 2024 IFCS World Champions.
Novice Handling with Courtney Moore
Dates: Tuesday, August 26th from 8am-Noon
About the Seminars:
Novice level sequences building up to 15-20 obstacles to piece together your skills! Only jumps and tunnels will be used in this seminar. This session will be fluid given it will accommodate dogs at various stages of learning. Dogs do not need to be jumping full height, but should be able to focus and work through sequences from 4-10 obstacles. Difficulty and sequence length can be adapted for each team based on age or skill level.
Masters Handling with Courtney Moore
Dates: Tuesday, August 27th from 1-5pm
About the Seminars:
Take your handling skills to the next level and learn how to train the challenges you will see in Premier,
USDAA and UKI courses. Weaves and contacts may be used. Dogs should be competing at or above the Excellent level in AKC, Advanced Level in USDAA, or Senior Level in UKI.
Novice Handling with Courtney Moore
Dates: Tuesday, August 26th from 8am-Noon
About the Seminars:
Novice level sequences building up to 15-20 obstacles to piece together your skills! Only jumps and tunnels will be used in this seminar. This session will be fluid given it will accommodate dogs at various stages of learning. Dogs do not need to be jumping full height, but should be able to focus and work through sequences from 4-10 obstacles. Difficulty and sequence length can be adapted for each team based on age or skill level.
Masters Handling with Courtney Moore
Dates: Tuesday, August 27th from 1-5pm
About the Seminars:
Take your handling skills to the next level and learn how to train the challenges you will see in Premier,
USDAA and UKI courses. Weaves and contacts may be used. Dogs should be competing at or above the Excellent level in AKC, Advanced Level in USDAA, or Senior Level in UKI.
Distance Handling Seminar – Independence, Sends, and Connection
Dates: Saturday, Sept. 20th from 1-5pm
Instructor: Beth Hostetter
Cost: $90 – working spot, $25 – auditing spot
About the Seminar:
This seminar is designed for Open to Master level teams looking to improve their distance handling and obstacle independence. We’ll focus on building stronger send cues, rewarding on the dog’s line, and increasing your dog’s confidence to work away while staying connected. Through short, purposeful sequences, you’ll learn how to better use motion, timing, and verbal cues to support your dog from a distance. Perfect for teams preparing for FAST, Gamblers, or simply wanting to handle more efficiently and strategically. Expand your toolbox and build trust on course!
Desiree Snelleman Seminars
Dates: Friday – Sunday, Sept. 26-28th
Cost: $175 – working spot, $25 – auditing spot
About Desiree:
Desiree is a lifelong athlete who is no stranger to the field of teaching, coaching and mentoring. It is her passion and what she has done all of her adult life. She has her Teaching and Coaching Credentials from the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, and she also holds a degree from San Diego State University in Athletic Training/Sports Medicine.
Desiree loves her chosen profession and enjoys seeing her students succeed in the complex game of Agility. She gives agility seminars around the country and abroad, and offers remote coaching. She also works as an instructor/coach at Run Wild Dog Sports and Training Center in Auburn, WA.
She currently shares 3 dogs with her spouse; their young dog, Vista (17 months), daddy Peak (7 years) and Cru (12 years), all Border Collies.
REGISTRATION OPENS ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 26th
International Coursework with Desiree Snelleman
Dates: Friday, Sept. 26th from 9am-12:30pm
About the Seminars:
Planning ahead and staying ahead! All the challenges you expect to experience in an ISC level 3 course/UKI Biathlon and Master Series will be presented. Discrims, sends, layering, and threadles (both slice and wrap), backsides (both slice and wrap). All equipment might be used.
More Success, Less Failure
Dates: Friday, Sept. 26th from 1:30-5pm
About the Seminars:
We love a motivated and attentive/thinking dog! The best way to keep them that way, is for us to be prepared and ready to train and reward the behaviors we want. Having a plan ie: setting goals for your training session, is important. The dog will need less repetitions, therefor, less wear and tear both mentally and physically. With more engagement and a higher rate of reinforcement we keep our dogs happy, and they will give us their all. Variable reinforcement and TIMING requires the handler to “observe” the performance of the dog and reward the performance immediately. We will use back chaining and placement of reinforcement. We will use food, toys, and food toys during this session, as well as various containers/coolers to reward our dogs. You will learn to optimize the dogs success by how you reinforce the behavior you want. Open to all levels
Masters Coursework with Desiree Snelleman
Dates: Saturday, Sept. 27th from 9am-12:30pm
About the Seminars:
Planning ahead and staying ahead. All the challenges you expect to experience in an AKC Masters course . Discrims, sends, layering, backsides and threadles. All equipment might be used.
It’s a Fine Line with Desiree Snelleman
Dates: Saturday, Sept. 27th from 1:30-5pm
About the Seminars:
Understanding lines… LINES rule the game of agility! You will learn how to identify lines, also called the path of the dog, in both shorter and longer sequences. We will look at how you can influence the dogs ideal line. We will discuss and learn how to avoid off-course potentials/traps based on the understanding of lines. If you dream about accuracy, consistency and speed in your game, this is where you learn how to accomplish that. Open to all levels
You’re Only Young Once
Dates: Sunday, Sept. 28th from 8:30am-Noon
About the Seminars:
Have a young dog you are working with? Or an older dog you want to strengthen your foundation with?! This is the session for you! Work through the best foundation exercises to help boost your dogs understanding of agility! This session will help build commitment, discriminations, collection, extension and more! Only jumps/tunnels will be used in this session.
Mini Seminars with Peyton Green
Dates: Friday, October 24th
Cost: $120 – working spot, $25 – auditing spot
About Peyton:
Peyton fell in love with dog training at a young age and spent her childhood training her family dogs, learning from any resource she could find, and volunteering at every local trial. Since then, Peyton has trained and trialed in many dog sports including agility, mondioring, herding, obedience, rally, flyball, dock diving, disc dog, and trick dog. She believes that learning from a wide variety of people and dog sports makes her a better trainer and helps her come up with creative solutions using tools from other sports.
While she loves training many sports, running international style agility is her biggest passion. In recent years she has won and placed in multiple regional and national agility events with her border collie Dash and Belgian Malinois Vivid—Most recently making podiums with both dogs at European Open team tryouts and making finals at the Polish Open.
Focus & Engagement with Peyton Green
Dates: Friday, Oct. 24th from 8:30am-Noon
About the Seminars:
In this 3.5 hour seminar, we’ll be working on focus & engagement for agility! You’ll learn how to train your dog to focus on you and to choose you over distractions. Our goal is to create a dog that always opts in to training instead of you having to beg them to work for you! This session is appropriate for puppies & young dogs getting started and also for more experienced teams who want to improve their relationship. Dogs should be a minimum of 16 weeks old and comfortable eating treats (or playing) in a training facility.
Advanced Handling with Peyton Green
Dates: Friday, Oct. 24th from 1-5pm
About the Seminars:
In this 4 hour seminar, we’ll be working through masters level coursework. Focus areas will include cross execution, verbal and commitment timing, and choosing the best line and handling for your dog. This seminar will include jumps, tunnels and weaves and is open to dogs training at senior/champ UKI, masters USDAA, or Excellent/Masters AKC level courses.