Jeri Shipley
Puppy & Manners Volunteer Assistant
Jeri has been an active member of VDTC since 2001 and assists Trish with the Pet Dog classes. Jeri has trained and competed with her dogs in Rally, Barn Hunt, Urban Locating and Canine Freestyle. Her golden retrievers are Dogs Can Dance Champions! email: VDTCtrainers@gmail.com
Marisa D'Souza
Members Classes
Marisa has been an active member of VDTC since 2015 and teaches special classes for our members. She currently has a Therapy Dog working in Solano County through Paws for Healing and she trains and competes in Rally, Scentwork, Barn Hunt and Nosework. email: VDTCtrainers@gmail.com
Joan Constantine
Rally Classes
Joan has been an active member of VDTC since 1985 and teaches Rally workshops and special classes. Joan has been involved with Rally since it’s inception and has titled her English Setters in both Rally and Obedience. In 2007 Joan’s Copper became the very first English Setter to earn the highest Rally title- RAE – Rally Advanced Excellent. Phone: (707) 290-8093 (leave message)
Judy Gamet
Canine Musical Freestyle & Fitness Classes
The saga begins with Judy Gamet, Bachelor of Science in Dance Education from Western Michigan University. Her love of teaching dance along with her interest in kinesiology (the science of human movement) led her to create Motion Dynamics, a dance and aerobics business in Northern California. Judy authored “The Theory of Motion Dynamics as it applies to Biophysics©” She spent most of her early dance teaching career developing injury free aerobics programs and developed a curriculum of aerobic dance for grades K-12 called “Motion Dynamics in the Schools”. Judy has shared her life with rottweilers for over twenty years. Being a responsible dog parent, Judy began studying obedience training and various dog sports. Her goal to move her dance students toward their potential carried over into her life with her dogs. Phone (707) 449-1715 www.dogscandance.com
Trish Iriye, CPDT-KA
Puppy and Beginning Manners Classes
Trish is a Canine Behavior Academy graduate, a Certified Professional Dog Trainer-Knowledge Assessed, a Fear Free Certified Trainer, and an AKC Canine Good Citizen Evaluator. Trish teaches Beginning Manners, Puppy and Canine Good Citizen classes for VDTC. She is committed to science-based, force-free training methods, uses positive reinforcement to keep dogs and their people happy and strives to teach simple, effective methods to achieve goals. Phone: (707) 342-3079 www.DoggyDetail.com
Teresa Russell
Obedience and Rally Classes
Teresa has worked as an obedience trainer for the Bahia Sur Kennel Club in San Diego and for the last 10 years as obedience trainer from puppy levels on up to Advanced Competition for the Napa Valley Dog Training Club. She has put obedience titles on eight Labrador Retrievers and one Mixed Breed, including CDs, CDXs, and 2 UDs and all Rally titles. She has put Junior and Senior Hunting titles on five of the Labs and put agility titles on two Labs. For a 15 year stretch she also owned and trained three Jack Russell Terriers to obedience and agility titles and participated in Go to Ground and Racing competitions. Currently she has a Chihuahua mix working on her Rally Excellent title and an 8 month old Labrador in training. She also personally shows her Labs in Conformation Shows. Years of experience, seminars, obedience stewarding and match judging have given her a variety of training methods and ideas for shaping dogs and handlers to be the best team they can be. Phone: (707) 287-1249 Email: terrus1637@gmail.com
Meet Our Team
Tracey Louper
Scentwork and Rally Classes
Tracey taught her first class in 1977. Training methods have changed a bit since then and she has changed as well but feels lucky to have experience that spans so many years. She has trained and handled dogs in formal obedience, rally, tracking, scent work, agility, and search and rescue, and dabbled in herding and bite work. Add to that, working and volunteering at animal shelters, Tracey has worked with a variety of dogs and their people treats each as an individuals.