For Dog Lovers/Trainers

Coaching the Canine Athlete Seminars

Coaching the Canine Athlete© seminars provide information on how the canine body works, and what you can do to improve performance and keep your dog healthy and injury-free. Seminars can be geared towards those interested in any or all performance events – it’s your choice! The seminars are highly interactive and provide ample opportunity for attendees and their dogs to participate in structure and gait analysis, lameness evaluation, conditioning exercises and jump training, alternating lecture time with working activities. There is abundant opportunity to ask questions. 

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 Event Schedule

February 15-17, 2020 NEW!
Coaching the Canine Athlete Seminar 
SOTC, Syracuse Obedience Training Club
Contact: Terri Parrow Botsford terri@parrow.com​

April 4 & 5, 2020 NEW!
Coaching the Canine Athlete Seminar 
Labrador Owners Club
Cambridge, ON
Contact: Liz Pask elizabethpask86@gmail.com

July 11 & 12, 2020 NEW!
Coaching the Canine Athlete Seminar
PUPS Dog Obedience Training 
Maryland
Contact: pupsmd@aol.com with questions

January 9 & 10, 2021 NEW!
Coaching the Canine Athlete Seminar 
Austin, TX
Contact: Courtney Keys 

Chris taught an audience of 200 dog enthusiasts how to evaluate their dog’s structure as a way to help prevent injuries (Surrey, England).

Chris teaching at the Forward Symposium, organized by Dr. Noel Fitzpatrick (aka SuperVet).

Reviews from Seminar Participants

Thank you, Chris, for sharing your knowledge with us, answering all our questions, and doing it with such good humour. 
                                                                                                                       --- Glenda M., Winnipeg, MB

This is my third time attending one of [Chris Zink's] presentations in the past nine years and each one has been better than the previous. I appreciate that as the sport [of agility] is evolving, so is Chris and her thinking which translates to better knowledge and understanding being passed along to us - how lucky we are!
                                                                                                                       --- Lorraine L.,  Winnipeg, MB

It was absolutely the most fantastic seminar I've ever been to (and I've just about seen 'em all!). If you are competing yourself or teaching students who plan to compete or train their dogs for any activity beyond couch potato, get to this seminar!
                                                                                                                       --- Kathy S, OH

I can't recommend this seminar highly enough. To be fair to our dogs, we need to know and understand their make-up before making any demands. I've been to many seminars, and this is one that I'd recommend as a must to anybody who competes with his/her dogs; be it obedience, agility, conformation, field etc. The seminar was very well structured, informative, interactive and well presented. Chris is an excellent speaker! 
                                                                                                                        --- Rita S, CA

Chris was very approachable for questions and she sincerely cares.
                                                                                                                        --- Chris C, ON

I learned so much valuable information that, hopefully, can help me to help my companions to not only do the performance events they love and enjoy, but to be healthy (mentally, spiritually, and physically) while doing them. [Chris is] a very talented speaker and [her] touches of comedy and sentimentalism add a specialness that holds the attendees' attentions.
                                                                                                                        ---Theresa Y, NY

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