Sport Activities: Agility - Advanced: Rosie Sutherland Agility - Novice: Jessica Ajoux Disc Dog: Shadrach Treat and Ashley Porter Herding: Warren Mick Flyball: Deb Norman Freestyle: Kristine Hammar K9 Nosework: Diane Bauman Tracking: Diane Bauman Training: Leslie McDevitt Rally Obedience: Lisa Basial Non-Sport Activities: Canine Massage: Suzin Webb CGC & Therapy Dog Testing: Rose Redick Vet Talk: tba Animal Communication: Dawn Hayman Canine Relationships: Lillie Goodrich

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 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's most recent accomplishment is having co-authored with Diane Bauman, Agility Start to Finish, a comprehensive Agility training manual published in April 2008.

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

Shadrach Treat and Ashley Porter
Shadrach and Ashley are active members of Green Mountain Disc Dogs (GMDD), a dog sport group based in northern Vermont. They live in Essex Junction, VT where they are competitors and instructors for disc dogs and their handlers. They became involved in the sport as a way to help their first Border Collie and Glen Highland Farm alum, Isha, overcome her severe anxiety related to people. The sport brought Isha out of her shell and opened up their passion for the sport. Shad has competed in both USDDN and Skyhoundz formats. His second Border Collie, Gwenn, also a GHF alum, is a gifted disc dog whose flare and genuine love of the sport won a 2nd place overall in the Pro division of GMDD's Spring Fling event. Shad, Gwenn and Isha whole-heartedly love the sport and value both the connection this unique sport builds as well as the physical outlet that disc dogging has to offer. The camp sessions will involve frisbee handling, building drive in your dog, frisbee tracking, understanding your dog's strengths, and providing you with the basics to develop a connection between you and your dog, whether your interest is competitive or purely recreational.

Flyball

Deb Norman
Deb is founder and training director of Y2K9s Dog Sports Club near Philadelphia. She uses clicker training to teach relationship and sports skills in classes and privately. She captains Fur Fun Flyball Team, 2000, 2003 and 2004 NAFA regional champions. Deb's border collie Ticker recently completed her USDAA Agility Championship and currently has over 50,000 flyball points. In over 30 years of training and competing in obedience Deb has titled many dogs, including a TD and a UD with several High in Trials. She also titled two Belgian Tervurens in agility and is currently working Shiner, her youngest border collie, in agility and flyball..

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

Diane Bauman
Diane has been training many different breeds of dogs for over 30 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. She has trained multiple Obedience Trial Champions including the only Pekingese OTCH in history to ever earn this degree (from a Shelter) and a Pomeranian (rescued from a shelter at the age of six). Diane was on the World agility team for three years 1998-2000 winning gold and silver medals, with her Cocker Spaniel. She had the very first Afghan trained to the highest level of agility at that time (MX,MXJ) also rescued from a shelter. 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 Author of Beyond Basic Dog Training (Howell), 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 DVDs and writes regularly for Front & Finish magazone and New Jersey Life magazine.

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.

Training & Problem Solving

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.

Instructors for Non-sporting Activities:

Canine Massage

Suzin Webb
Suzin became a Certified Small Animal Massage Therapist in 2008 after attending the Bancroft School of Massage Therapy and is about to graduate from the Connecticut Center for Massage Therapy. Suzin has studied numerous different bodywork modalities for both canines and humans including Classic Western Massage, Deep Tissue, Energy Healing (Reiki, Chakra Balancing, Polarity Therapy), Myofascial Release, Acupressure, Tellington Touch, and Facilitated Movement (based on Dr. Barry Gillespie's Brain Therapy). She teaches workshops in Basic and Advanced Techniques in Canine Massage that are geared toward owners who wish to build a stronger bond with their dog and who are interested in a holistic approach to well-being. Suzin also does private sessions that incorporate body scans and gait assessment so as to utilize the most appropriate bodywork modalities for each individual dog's needs. Suzin is also a Doggie Daycare trainer at My Dog's Place, a daycare/training/activity center in Mystic and Niantic, CT. Her best friends are three border collies named Rub, Bunty, and Karni.

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.