CANINE ATHLETE ACADEMY:
Everything you need to keep your canine athlete healthy
and competing well into their senior years.
Seminar by Dr. Chris Zink, DVM
Red Barn Event Centre
Barrie, ON
November 5 & 6, 2011
Chris Zink, D.V.M., Ph.D., is a consultant on canine sports medicine, evaluating canine structure and
locomotion, and designing individualized retraining and conditioning programs for canine athletes. She is the
award-winning author of
Peak Performance: Coaching the Canine Athlete, Dog Health and Nutrition for
Dummies
, and The Agility Advantage, and co-author of Jumping from A to Z: Teach Your Dog to Soar and
Building the Canine Athlete: Strength, Stretching, Endurance and Body Awareness Exercises
. She has obtained
more than 70 obedience, agility, retrieving, tracking, and conformation titles on dogs from the sporting,
herding, working, terrier, and hound groups. Dr. Zink presents Coaching the Canine AthleteŽ seminars
worldwide to rave reviews. Dr. Zink won the President’s Award at the Dog Writer’s Association of America
Awards Dinner in February 2009 for her book
The Agility Advantage.
This is a fairly intensive two-day seminar broken into a number of segments, each with an initial lecture
period followed by demonstrations and discussions. All areas of canine competition will be covered
including: conformation, obedience, tracking, agility, lure coursing and herding. Lectures will be
supplemented by illustrative videos. There will also be gait analysis of a number of dogs, demonstration of
how to do a lameness examination using actual dogs, discussions of conditioning programs and of injuries
most common in performance dogs, and time for questions from attendees. The information presented on
Day 2 builds on what is presented on Day 1. Handouts will be provided. Plan to bring a chair and, if coming
with a dog, a crate.
Components of the Seminar:
Canine Structure – What it Means for Performance
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your dog’s structural strengths and weaknesses
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what those strengths and weaknesses mean for performance
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how to capitalize on your dog’s strengths to maximize performance
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understanding your dog’s weaknesses to minimize injury
The Amazing Canine Athlete
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the six canine gaits and how to put them on cue
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gaits your dog uses for different performance events
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abnormal gaits, why they’re abnormal, and how to banish them
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how your dog uses its body in agility/obedience and other events
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age-related tips for performance training
Jumping – a Core Athletic Activity
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Training jumping – from puppies to seniors
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Lead legs – what they are, why they are important, and how to train your dog to use them appropriately
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Jumping problems – what causes them and how to fix them
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