My family got a wonderful Sheltie mix when I was 5.  She lived from my start of kindergarten to my first year of veterinary school.  Lady was my best friend.

Dog training opened up a giant hobby for me that became a lifestyle.  It seemed that people trusted me because I offered a positive solution to their pet ’s problems. Before I moved here, I was the  primary foundation and attention instructor in central Indiana.

My proudest moment was when my daughter got her first double Q in agility and when she got her MACH.  She was 12 and a great team with her little Pomeranian Bagel.

Here I instruct rally, obedience, agility and pre-sports puppy foundations at Homerun pet clinic and training.  In my real life I am also a rehab and western medical acupuncture DVM.

I love playing with my dogs in agility, obedience, rally, tricks and canine conditioning. I even tried conformation.  This week I start a feline training class.  I have escorted my dogs into the the ring enough to have had 5 UDs, one UDX , MACHs, PACHs, a NATCH, an ADCH,  a PDCH AND A CATCH.

Right before coronavirus I joined Durham Kennel Club, so I met most everybody with a face mask on. The club is a wonderful place for socialization of people and dogs. There are many wonderful people committed to their companions, a variety of classes, with so many opportunities from a relaxed walk along the edges to utility training, rally and agility.

I want to mention how caring everyone at DKC has been about my loosing my trickster, Cubby. I had a great dog and I know everyone here truly understands the heartbreak and joy that dogs bring.