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Teri

Competition Obedience

Teri has been involved in training and showing since 1991. In that time, she has titled several dogs in AKC,UKC,CKC,ASCA. In the past 8 years, she has campaigned her Belgian Malinois “Tory” BOWISS,BOVISS, U-CDX,OTCH CH Crossroads Trew Legend, UDX2,OM1,VER obtaining both breed and obedience championships. This team has achieved over 35 HIT’s(High In Trial) including HC(High Combined). They have ranked #1 Novice Belgian Malinois, #1 Open Beligian Malinois and #1 Utility Belgian Malinois in the USA! Teri and Tory have been invited to the Eukanuba National Obedience Invitational the past 3 years in a row ranking #1 and #2 Belgian Malinois in the country! Teri has attended many workshops, seminars and worked with some of the top known trainers in the USA. Teri is also a Certified K9 Massage Therapist. www.malinoisrescue.org/foster

Beth

Agility Instructor/Coordinator

Beth is a Nationally ranked agility competitor and has been involved in Agility since 2000. She also competes in Obedience, Rally, Breed and Schutzhund with her Dobermans. Beth is currently competing her young Doberman, UCH Platinum’s Winner Takes it All CD MXB MJB NF RN BH TT VC WAC CGC “Milan”. Ranked #15 DPCA Top 20 Agility Finalist for 2012 & qualified for the 2013 AKC National Agility Championships. Past competition dogs: MACH UCH UCD Ravenswood Aspen Extreme CDX, Can CD, ASCA CD, NJC, JS-N, CL1-H, CL1-S, WV-N, TG-N, RA, RL1, VC, TT, TDI, CGC “Aspen”. Ranked #6 DPCA Top 20 Agility Finalist in ’07 and qualified for the ’07, ’08, ’09 AKC National Championships. MACH Highland’s Mountain Express SchH1, CD, NF, VC, RE, RL2, CL1-H, TN-N, WV-N, CGC, TDI, TT “J”. Ranked #6 DPCA Top 20 Agility Finalist in ’09 and qualified for the ’10 AKC National Championships. Beth & “J” also received an invitation to compete at the ’09 AKC Agility Invitational in Long Beach, CA. When Beth isn’t training or competing she resides on the Board of the Pilgrim Doberman Pinscher Club.

Cris

CGC/Rally Instructor

Cris teaches and evaluates our CGC Class, Therapy Dog Class and our Rally Obedience Class. Loved by Rottweilers since 2000, she has volunteered for the NE Rottweiler Rescue as a volunteer coordinator in RI. Her current dog URO2 UCD Deerwood’s Larson Bravo Zulu CDX RE NJP NAP NFP OCC OAC OJC TG-O WV-E TN-E APDT RL2 AOE- L1 & L2 HIC TT CGC TDI (aka Lars) has been actively showing AKC/UKC obedience, NADAC/AKC agility, and working as the Warwick Public Library’s Tail Waggin’ Tudor through TDI. Just recently, Lars an all breed obedience High in Trial winner and one of the American Rottweiler Club’s and the Colonial Rottweiler Club’ Top Ten Agility Rottweilers! Her new comer and Lars’ cousin Ocean (Deerwood’s Oh Stars on the Water!) is an up and coming performance star. Ocean as a youngster is showing great promise in agility, rally, and obedience.

Kathy

Pet Obedience Instructor

Dogs have ALWAYS been the center of Kathy’s world. Helping you and your dog communicate with each other is her passion. She has a special ability to help you understand your dog’s behavior and to help you effectively train your dog.

Kathy has been professionally dog training since 1996 and has been working with the K-9 Connection for the past thirteen years teaching our Puppy Manners, Basic Obedience, and Level II classes. She is also a member of APDT and a Canine Good Citizen Evaluator.

Besides teaching classes, Kathy also competes with her Labrador Retrievers in AKC Obedience, AKC Rally and NADAC Agility.