All of our classes are staffed by highly qualified professional trainers. Our trainers offer experience with all breeds of dogs. They are truly interested in you and your dog.
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Emily Barton
Rally AdvancedAdvanced Novice |
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| Emily Barton has been a SCDTC club member since l969. She has bred, raised, trained and shown Shelties in conformation, obedience, tracking, rally, and agility. Over the years she has taught 4-H, judged fun matches, stewarded, given demonstrations, organized various club functions and served on the board.
She has taught obedience through many park and recreation classes throughout San Jose and Los Gatos. She has also worked for 3 major dog training schools over the last 38 years. She worked as a veterinary technician for 16 yrs. before retirement. Now she enjoys her continued involvement with the dog world, in addition to watercolor painting, reading, gardening and sewing. She and her husband have 2 grown daughters and she enjoys babysitting her 2 young granddaughters. Emily's dogs include: Hidden Creek Keepsake - VCD2, UDX, MX, MXJ, TD, CGC (recently deceased) MACH Hidden Creek Indigo Skye - UD, CGC, MACH2 (6 yrs. old) Hidden Creek Nightcall - RE, UD, AX, AJX, CGC (4 yrs. old, rescued at 14 months) | |
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Lora Cox
Show NoviceOpen Utility |
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| Lora is an ASCA (Australian Shepherd Club of America) Obedience judge and an AKC Obedience (Novice and Open) and Rally (all levels) judge. When she is not teaching or training her on dogs in Obedience, Agility, Stock and Tracking, she may be found gardening, quilting and sewing.
Her first dog was a Lhasa Aposo named Ming Toy, which she spoiled rotten -- in fact, she was kicked out of obedience class because Ming Toy kept biting the instructor (she was 10 years old at the time and did not see the need for her dog to learn how to heel). Years later and married, she picked up a cute puppy from the pound that looked like a smooth coated Aussie - Calico later grew up to be a more like a Catahula Hound Dog which dragged her all over the neighborhood. She got hooked on Obedience School this time [we are happy to say] and Calico, under Lora's tutelage, earned her Mixed Breed UD. Over the years she has trained and titled all of her dogs, and more. Lora's dogs and their titles include: Calico (Mixed Breed)- UD Tucker (Australian Shepherd) - ASCA OTCH, AKC UDX Duke (Australian Shepherd) - ASCA OTCH, AKC UDX, 46 points toward his AKC OTCH, AHBA (American Herding Breed Association) HCT (Herding Certification Test) Vista (Australian Shepherd)DOB 9-29-2001 - HCT, AKC CD, CDX, UD, UDX, HT, PT, NA, NAJ, RN,RA, RE, ASCA CD, CDX, UD, RS-N, GS-N, JS-ND Ranger (Australian Shepherd)DOB 9-25-2006 - TD, in training for HT and CD | |
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Wendy Freier
BeginnerAdvanced Beginner |
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| Wendy Frier teaches our Beginning and Advanced Beginning classes.
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Judy Gamet
Canine Freestyle
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| Judy Gamet has a BS in Dance Education and has been training Rottweilers for the past 17 years. She has participated in conformation, tracking, Schutzhund, traditional obedience, and rally obedience.
She has been coaching competition teams for the past 6 years. Judy is also the West Coast representative of the Canine Freestyle Federation. Feel free to visit Judy's website. | |
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Dave Signorotti
Novice |
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| Dave had three mixed breed dogs with very little training before he got a Chesapeake Bay Retriever and decided to go for formal obedience training. He never did show the dog, but in 2000 with his next dog Gemma, a Labrador Retriever, he earned a CD Title with scores good enough for a Dog World Award.
His wife Renee has a Labrador named Storm and she earned a CD Title one year later. During this time, they both were members of Furry Friends Pet Assisted Therapy and visited a class for autistic children, a class for orthopedically challenged children & the Santa Clara County Children's Shelter. Dave continued with his wife's dog Storm and earned a CDX and a UD Title. Then he went back to Gemma and finally got her CDX. He also competed in Rally with Gemma, and recieved an RAE Title with her (pictured on right). Dave is working with Jet, a Labrador that he co-owns with Martin and Desiree Toeller, towards a UD title after successfully completing his CDX. Dave and Renee now have a Labrador pup named Spark that will keep Dave busy for years to come. His other interests are golf, backpacking, jogging and fishing. Dave's dogs include: Jamaica's Gem CDX RAE CGC Gunsmoke's Storm A Brewing UD CGC Sharays Same Day Air CD CGC Hightest Firing On All Cylinders | |
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Dick Symons
Conformation 101Drop-In Conformation |
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Dick has been involved in training and exhibiting dogs for more than 40 years. Since his retirement from IBM as a programming analyst, he has really gone to the dogs - conformation, obedience, tracking, agility, herding, and pet assisted therapy!!! He is an experienced conformation and obedience trainer, Therapy Dogs International (TDI) evaluator, and a Mixed Breed Obedience and Tracking judge.
He admits that the capabilities (brains, beauty, alertness, energy) of his Belgian Tervuren far exceed his. He questions who is teaching who - "I teach them the human games and they teach me Life." Dick and his wife (Sue) have four grown daughters and are proud grandparents to eight. The Sue/Dick team have shown in the US, Canada, Bermuda, and Mexico earning over 165 titles. Symons' dogs include: CH CT Cinema Angel Marjii Symons - UD, OA, OAJ, HT, CGC, TDIAOV Symons' Treasure Jessi - TD TDI Belgian Tervuren of the past: CH Hilton's Tammi Symons - CD Int Ch Starwind's Jessi Symons - UDT, HT, CGC, TDI, C-O-P, BAR Ch Symons' Treasure Dixxi - UDT, HS, CGC, TDIA Ch Symons' Treasure Jeff - UDT, PT, CGC, TDI Ch Symons' Treasure Jenni - UDT, TT, HIC, CGC, TDI Symons' Treasure Discovered - CDX, Dagger Ch Symons' Treasure Harbor Light - VCD1, PT, CGC, TT, TDIA, Toro Symons' Treasure Francci - CD, CGC, TDI Ch CT Symons' Treasure Izzi - UD, OA, OAJ, PT, CGC, TT, TDIAOV Ch Symons' Treasure Kurtiss - UDT, OA, OAJ, PT, CGC and TDIAOV | |
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Rachel Evers
Agility Fundamentals - BeginningAgility Fundamentals - Advanced |
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Rachel began her professional life as a dancer and K-12 educator, and has been teaching workshops for children and adults since 1995. She made the leap to dog training in 2006, and found a natural fit for her experience in dance, education, and psychology. Helping students to develop an awareness of themselves and their canine companions through movement and clear communication is an integral part of her coaching style, and Rachel credits the success of her own dogs in Agility, Rally, Canine Good Citizen, and Pet Assisted Therapy to the strong sense of teamwork she has developed with them through this approach. She currently enjoys training and competing in Agility with her dogs Kubby (All-American) and Chloe (Border Collie). | |