In 2002-2003 Deborah trained under

Agility World Team competitor- Steve Frick 

USDAA top ten competitor- Julie Daniels

Canine athlete and performance authority- Chris Zink DVM, PhD

Authority on canine structure as related to performance-Pat Hastings (AKC judge). 

She attended agility camps lead by Bud Houston, Linda Mecklenburg, Wendy Pape, and Jen Pinder - all authorities in agility training and instruction. Deborah also attended a class given by AKC for establishing and judging Rally obedience events.

In 2004, Karl joined Deborah to begin instructing the group obedience classes. 

To enhance and grow the obedience group classes to support and reinforce social skills and manners as well as basic obedience, Karl attended a two day seminar given by Terry Ryan for group class instructors.

In an effort to meet a growing need, we decided to expand our offerings to include clicker training classes. In support of this decision, we attended educational and training seminars held at the Clicker Expo in Orlando, Florida, hearing from Karen Pryor, Angelica Steinker, Emma Parsons, Kathy Sdao, Kay Lawrence, Ken Rameriz and many more.  

 In 2005, we concentrated on behavioral problems such as aggression and shyness. We attended several conferences on behavior, dog language, and aggression given by Sue Sternberg, Emma Parsons and John Rogerson.

 In 2006, Deb attended a four day seminar with Ian Dunbar in November. 'This seminar was for trainers who desired the easiest, most effective, most enjoyable, and most expedient ways to produce equipment-and-gizmo-free, reliable, off-leash distance control for dogs.' It was great!

2007 brought us in depth training on behavior.

We heard the thoughts of Sarah Wilson on behavior. She began her seminar with breeds and breed characteristics to build a foundation to help understand the basis for stress, reactivity, and aggression.

We also heard Bob Bailey instruct on the fundamentals of animal training from foundation theory to practical application.

Karl attended a seminar on structuring, conducting and enhancing group classes