Sport Activities: Agility - Advanced: Rosie Sutherland Agility - Novice: Jessica Ajoux Disc Dog: Marty Levy Freestyle: Kristine Hammar Herding: Warren Mick Scenting Games: Diane Bauman Rally Obedience: Lisa Basial Tracking: Diane Bauman Treibball: Casey Lomonaco Lectures & Demos: Control Unleashed: Leslie McDevitt Training & Behavior Shaping: Abbie Tamber Living with & Training a Fearful Dog: Debbie Jacobs Bodywork for Dogs: Lynn Vaughan Canine Good Citizen & Therapy Dog Testing: Rose Redick Animal Communication: Dawn Hayman Canine Relationships: Lillie Goodrich * Instructors subject to change.

Sport Instructors:

Agility

Jessica Ajoux
Agility for Novices

Jessica Ajoux has been involved in dog training and agility since 1999 and is currently an active competitor, instructor, and agility judge. In 2004, she was approved as an official agility judge for the United States Dog Agility Association (USDAA) and currently judges around the country when she is not teaching or competing. Jessica runs Ready...Go! Agility Training for all levels, along with puppy and basic obedience. As an instructor, Jessica is committed to sharing her knowledge and understanding of all facets of agility with her students. Whether student's aspirations lie in the competition ring or the backyard, Jessica is dedicated to helping her students achieve their goals and succeed.

A graduate of Princeton University in spring 2007 with a degree in Psychology, Jessica considers herself a "student of the game." She has trained and learned from a variety of top trainers on both coasts. Her greatest influence has been studying and apprenticing with world renowned trainer, Diane Bauman. Jessica co-authored with Bauman, Agility Start to Finish, a comprehensive Agility training manual published in April 2008. In the ring, Jessica is a top notch competitor. Her dogs compete at the local, regional and national levels. She qualifies for the AKC and USDAA nationals annually. Her sights are set to make it to the international level. In 2010, she and her dog Streak finished 4th at the USA World Team Tryouts and just missed a spot on Team USA.

Rosie Sutherland
Agility for Advanced
Rosie has been competing in agility since 1996, starting with an aussie and then several border collies. Her dogs Todd and Rhyn both have Platimun Lifetime Achievement Awards, the highest title in USDAA agility. Todd also has the AKC MACH title and Rhyn is closing in on his MACH2. Her youngest dog, Risk, is currently trialing in Masters and starting to compete in flyball. Rosie teaches classes and seminars for several New Jersey clubs and is the Agility Director of Y2K9s Dog Sports Club near Philadelphia. Both she and her students have been finalists in AKC and USDAA national championships.

Disc Dog

Marty Levy
Marty Levy has been competing with disc dogs for more than 15 years. His Border Collies, Nan, Penny, Sally and Mollie have won numerous awards in the sport. Nan, Penny and now Meg frequently demonstrate the sport and Meg is presently fine tuning her freestyle routines. Marty also competes in agility with those same border collies. When not teaching seminars showing handlers how to throw and dogs how to catch flying discs, he is a professor of human orthopaedics where he spends much of his time teaching orthopaedic residents (using the success based models that he uses to teach our dogs). Marty also has contributed to Clean Run magazine, writing articles on injuries to dogs participating in agility and evaluations of competition seesaws. He has a good slant on what makes a dog succeed, physically and mentally; and humans too. He can teach anyone to throw a Frisbee. He lives in Westchester, with his wife Lorraine, his pack of border collies and occasionally a visit from his son, who is back east in medical school.

Freestyle

Kristine Hammar
Kristine Hammar began training dogs when she discovered that her Border Collie, Speedy, was extremely fearful of people and other dogs. What began as an effort to help Speedy learn to be comfortable sharing the world with people and other dogs turned into so much more for both of them. After earning titles in both AKC and APDT Rally Obedience, Kristine and Speedy began to train and perform in Canine Musical Freestyle. As members of the Steppin' Woofs Musical Freestyle Club, Kristine and Speedy perform together at nursing homes, fund raisers, and club gatherings banquets. Kristine and Speedy are currently competing in WCFO Musical Freestyle at the Intermediate level. Kristine also competes with her Border Collie/Lab mix, Maddie, in CPE Agility, and is getting started with her youngest Border Collie, Dean, in WCFO Freestyle, CPE Agility, and NADAC Agility.

Kristine is an instructor at Fieldwood Dog Training Center in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where she teaches Agility and Clicker training classes, and works privately with students whose dogs have emotional and behavior challenges in group situations. Kristine is also the vice president of the Paws On Agility Club at Fieldwood.

Herding

Warren Mick
Warren has been training and running Border Collies for the past 13 years. He currently lives in Altamont with his wife Maria and eleven BCs. His BC experience started in 1989 with a pup bred by his sister. Since that first dog, the world of working sheepdogs has become an all consuming passion. He spends much of his free time training and working his own dogs but also enjoys giving lessons and helping others in training. Warren competes with his BC's at trials around the country and has run in the past 4 National Finals and many regional championships. He has also organized and judged many competitions. Warren will tell you that while he enjoys trialing and judging very much, its the training and working with the dogs that he really loves most. Seeing the dogs do what the were bred for, connecting and communicating with a dog and the bonding that develops is just indescribable.

Tracking & Scenting Games

Diane Bauman
Diane has been training many different breeds of dogs for over 35 years. Her experience includes obedience, tracking, agility, herding, lure coursing, conformation, field, search & rescue, assistance dogs, and guide dogs. She is best known for her accomplishments training older dogs rescued from shelters. Diane has trained multiple Obedience Trial Champions including the only Pekingese OTCH in history to ever earn this degree and a Pomeranian (rescued from a shelter at the age of six).

Diane was on the World Agility Team for three years 1998, 1999 and 2000 winning gold and silver medals, with her American Cocker Spaniel. She then trainined the first Afghan Hound (also rescued from a shelter) to the highest level of agility at that time (MX,MXJ.)

Diane's tracking experience includes a Tracking Title on a Papillon, Golden Retriever, Cocker Spaniel, and the first ever Amer. Can. OTCH Keeshond with a Tracking degree in history, at that time. Currently her Icelandic Sheepdog has the first and highest herding titles in the breed as well as the first of her breed to earn an AKC tracking title.

As Author of Beyond Basic Dog Training (Howell) now in it's third edition, Beyond Basic Dog Training, The Workbook (Alpine), Life With People (Paw Prints Press), and Agility Start to Finish (Alpine 2008), Diane has been in demand to give seminars in the US and Canada. She has also produced two training DVDs and contributes regularly for Front & Finish - the dog trainer's magazine, and writes a regular column in the  New Jersey Life magazine.

Diane's specialty is problem solving in any venue of dog training. Easily approachable by humans and canines Diane believes she speaks for dogs and works to help owners understand why their dogs do what they do and the best way to change behavior.

Treibball

Casey Lomonaco
Casey is a behavior and training consultant, professional author, and lecturer who strives to deliver the most recent, scientifically valid dog behavior information to pet professionals and pet owners through a variety of print and e-media sources, seminars and private consultations. At her facility in Endicott, New York, Casey offers a variety of group and private services for pet owners and assists her business partner in hosting workshops for the Karen Pryor Academy.

Casey has contributed content for many publications, including: Karen Pryor Clicker Training, Dog Star Daily, the Association of Pet Dog Trainers Chronicle of the Dog, Dogster, and DogTime. She is committed to professional ethics, excellence, and responsibility and is proud to serve as an inaugural member of the Alumni Advisory Board for Karen Pryor Academy, work with the Executive Director Selection Committee for the Association of Pet Dog Trainers, and participate as a member of both Truly Dog Friendly and the No-Shock Collar Coalition.

When she’s not training, writing, attending conferences or seminars, Casey can be found: reading, attending conferences or seminars on dog training, behavior, and health, hiking through the woods with Jim and the dogs, playing with her new camera, camping, attending to the grooming needs of the resident three and four-legged furkids, cleaning slobber off the ceilings, muddy paw prints from the floor, hunting dust bunnies with the Dyson, preparing training treats, making home made dog toys, or snuggling puppies.

Rally-Obedience

Lisa Basial
Lisa presently teaches flyball and Rally Obedience at the Fieldwood Dog Training Center in Carlisle, PA, and works with dogs and owners privately on flyball, Rally and general behavioral issues. She has been competing in and teaching flyball at myriad training facilities in Pennsylvania for the past seven years, and has begun to compete in and teach the wonderful new sport Rally Obedience in the past year and a half. Using positive training methods and reinforcement, Lisa's primary focus in training is building the relationship between the dog and owner, as all else follows from that. Lisa's border collie, Ransom, plays flyball with his mom, Deb Norman's Ticker, on the regional champion Fur Fun Flyball Team and competes in sheep herding trials. Her German Shepherd mix, Juno, is a retired flyball dog who happily competes in the wonderful new sport of Rally Obedience. And Lisa's 11-1/2 year old border collie, Willie, spends most of his time patiently trying to make Lisa a better handler in sheep herding trials.

Featured Lectures & Demos:

Control Unleashed

Leslie McDevitt
Leslie McDevitt, MLA, CDBC, CPDT is a Certified Dog Behavior Consultant through the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants and a Certified Professional Dog Trainer through the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers. She specializes in healing reactive and anxious dogs and teaching off-leash control. She is the author of Control Unleashed: Creating a Focused and Confident Dog which received an award for Best Dog Training Book of 2007 and of the DVD Control Unleashed: Foundation Seminar which received an award for the Best Dog Behavior DVD of 2008.

Leslie practices nonviolence, known as a versatile, compassionate and intuitive trainer, her teaching is based on the spirit of cooperation and partnership between dog and human. She has worked with diverse populations of dogs, from pets to performance dogs to police dogs. Leslie continues her commitment to rescue by evaluating dogs for Glen Highland Farm's Border Collie Rescue and by serving as the Training Advisor for the Animal Welfare Project. She lives outside of Philadelphia, in a quiet town near a beautiful state park, with four dogs, two cats, and one very supportive husband.

Training & Behavior Shaping

Abbie Tamber
Like many other dog trainers, my own rather rambunctious dogs are the reason I got hooked on dog training. I live in a rural community and discovered that no one was offering the kind of positive, relationship-based training that I wanted to use. As I learned more and more about dog training, I began to develop the credentials and experience I would need to train other people's dogs in addition to my own. I started teaching basic manners classes. Three years later I was offering basic agility classes as well. Over the next ten years, agility would come to dominate both my personal and professional life, I began to expand my agility program, offering foundation through competition classes.

I am a graduate of the Agility Instructor Certification course from Julie Daniels' White Mountain Agility School (WMAS) class of '94, where I was voted the most inspiring instructor by the campers. I have been assisting at WMAS since 1995. In 2005, I began volunteering at Glen Highland Farm, a rescue sanctuary for border collies, where I help get dogs ready for their "forever" homes. In addition to my agility classes, I present agility seminars at various locations. I am also available for behavioral consultations.

Living With & Training a Fearful Dog

Debbie Jacbos
Debie Jacobs, CPDT-KA, CAP2 is the author of A Guide to Living with & Training a Fearful Dog. She is the creator of the Fearfuldogs.com website and blogger at the Fearful Dogs' Blog. Debbie lives in Vermont with her husband and 3 dogs, one from Glen Highland Farm and is always thinking about the most effective and humane ways to handle fearful, anxious and shy dogs.

Canine Massage

Lynn Vaughan
Lynn Vaughan, LMT is an animal bodywork practitioner with a focus on teaching. She is coauthor of the DVDs Bodywork for Dogs - Intuitive Touch™ through Massage, Acupressure and Awareness and Intuitive Touch™ with Horses. They have been featured in national media, including Whole Dog Journal, Bark magazine, Dr. Marty Goldstein's Sirius/XM radio show, The Martha Stewart TV Show, Good Morning America, among many others.

Since 1985, Lynn has taught thousands of people to use touch, awareness and communication with their animals to improve health and well-being, and deepen their bond. Beginning as a veterinary technician in one of the country's most established holistic veterinary clinics, Lynn went on to develop her practice based in Pound Ridge, NY. In private sessions and hands-on workshops, she helps caregivers evaluate and address the individual needs of each animal, and their relationship, with massage, acupressure and energy modalities.

Lynn's work with dogs has a broad span from general health to medical and behavioral issues, rehabilitation, to end of life care, assisting companions, working, service and therapy dogs and athletes. She teaches regularly though Guiding Eyes for the Blind, Puppies Behind Bars, veterinary clinics, training centers and other special interest groups. To maximize care, she frequently collaborates with integrative veterinarians, acupuncturists, chiropractors, physical therapists, behaviorists and trainers. Her website is www.animalshealing.com.

Animal Communication

Dawn Hayman
In more than 15,000 phone and face-to-face consultations, Dawn has served over 6000 clients, talked to over 25,000 animals, given close to 200 workshops here at home and around the country. She is accounted one of the foremost Interspecies Communicators in the world. Through workshops, lectures and consultations, Dawn helps to reopen that telepathic channel natural to us all and lead us through a doorway into a world where we can communicate with our animals and all life. In 1991, Dawn co-founded Spring Farm Cares, a large animal sanctuary in upstate NY, with 250 animals, that included 32 horses, ponies, goats, sheep, llamas, dogs, cats, rabbits, ducks, chickens and a few exotic birds. "We thought we were simply giving these animals a place to live out their years, instead the caregivers became the humble students of the great spirits residing in these animals." Everyone who has ever heard her at Camp is mesmerized and finds her information to be invaluable.

Canine Good Citizen & Therapy Dog Testing

Rose Redick
Rose has been visiting nursing homes, schools, hospitals and libraries with her 3 border collies for several years. Once her dogs became registered therapy dogs, she began assisting evaluators and eventually became an evaluator for both the American Kennel Club Canine Good Citizen Program and Therapy Dog International. In addition to the Therapy Work, her border collies, Abby, Rodney and Fawn compete in Agility, Herding and Rally Obedience. Through her work as an evaluator, Rose has worked with many different breeds and has offered many teams the opportunity to become registered Therapy Dogs.

Canine Relationships

Lillie Goodrich
Founder, Glen Highland Farm
Lillie spends her life listening to the dogs at Glen Highland Farm, those in the rescue program and those that visit with adopters. Her entire focus, 24/7, is tuning into dogs. Since childhood she's connected to animals and as an adult, she's rehomed close to 1000 dogs, many in need of special help due to past neglect or trauma where she acts as the bridge to reconnect with loving humans. She studied in Advanced Inter species Communication with renown telepathic communicator, Penelope Smith, and has been an Intuitive Coach for the last 3 years, helping individuals trust and develop their own intuitive guidance. Her book, The Little Book of Everyday Soul, has been well received and helpful to many people.