Meet Our Top-Notch Trainers |
 Teri Desrosiers - Owner/Trainer 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" Ch OTCH Crossroads Trew Legend, UDX2,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 in 2003, #1 Open Beligian Malinois in 2005 and #1 Utility Belgian Malinois in 2007 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 | |||||
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Beth has been involved in Agility for the past 10 years and also competes in Obedience, Rally and Schutzhund with her Dobermans. 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 Agility Doberman in '07 MACH Highland's Mountain Express SchH1, CD, NF, VC, RE, RL2, CL1-H, TN-N, WV-N, CGC, TDI, TT "J" *Ranked #6 Agility Doberman and #1 male in '09 *The youngest male Doberman to earn a MACH (Master Agility Champion) |
"Terry currently owns 2 Labrador Retrievers. Cali is 10 years old and has earned her UD, MX, and MXJ. Acela is 8 months and is in training for competition obedience and agility. | ||||
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-Diane has been involved in training dogs for over 25 years. Major dogs include: Karenwood's Sheza Joy First obed dog.(Open title) Key Dog training Bred-Aylmere Afterglow, Ax, Axj (Kindle) (many Elite and verteran Elite titles) Bred-CH Alymere Premonition Ax, Axj (T eller)co-owned w/Connie Weller, Pat Wright Aylmere Rekindled (Flame) (co-owned with Meg Mccarthy) Mx, Mxj (two legs shy of MACH)(Kindle's daughter) Co-owned CH Aylmere Puzzle Piece (Trista) with Pat Wright (Tika's Mom) Recently Retired: MACH 2 Halohils Colorforms, MAD (Tika) Her current dog is a real speed demon. Bare Cove Back in a Jiffy Ax, Mxj, (One leg short of MAD) (Jiffy) is currently competing in all the venues in the excellent levels. -Lynda took her poodle all the way to her first MACH. He was MACH Movin' Mouen. Her current rescue poodle, Demolition Derby "Derby" will be starting out this Fall.. |
Growing up with 4 rotties, Kathy was labeled the family animal specialist. She volunteered at an animal shelter and also did grooming. In 1990, Kathy rescued a mix breed which got her interested in dealing with fears with animals. This put her on the path to alternative training methods. She got her 1st pure breed lab Zeus to show and did pet therapy through Volunteer Services for Animals. Kathy has been training dogs professioanlly since 1996 and has been at the K9 for 10 years. Specializing in all stages of obedience training and has a special gift of helping people help their pets. She has many family clients, that love and refer her. We take pride to say that Kathy is one of the most sought after pet trainers in the NE area with many success stories to prove it! | ||||
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Cris teaches and evaluates our CGC classes as well as the Rally Obedience class. Loved by Rottweilers since 2000, she has volunteered for the NE Rottweiler Rescue as a volunteer coordinator in RI. Her rescued Sam, earned both Obedience and Rally titles along with many placements. They also did therapy work with Therapy Dog International. Lars(shown in photo),is now showing in Rally Obedience. This team has achieved One Rally Level 1X Leg with a score of 203 out of 210! Rally Level 2(Rally Advanced) scores of 207, 203 and 207 ALL 1st Places! 4th Highest Scoring Dog with a score of 820-highest being 836. |
Pam has been teaching Breed Handling classes since 1991. She started grooming, training and competing in Junior Showmanship at a very young age. Through the years, she also worked for a PHA All Breed Handler and continued to gain knowledge on how to groom and present different breeds. Pam has bred and finished several Japanese Chins with some very impressive wins.
|  Chris' first obedience dog was a beagle. She put a UD on him. Reb, a golden retriever,was her first Otch, UDX dog. Amber was very nervous, but she got a UD! Tide got an Otch, UDX, AX, AXJ. Gauge got an Otch at 2 years of age, a UDX, AX, AXJ, Senior Hunter and WCX.
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The trainers are so knowledgeable, helpful and nice! I gained so much from this class and I will surely be back!!....anonymous "Teri is the Bees Knees!!!"......anonymous
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