Vallejo Dog Training Club
Trainer Bios
Trish Iriye BA, CPDT-KA
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. She has competed to title dogs in AKC Rally and she and her husband have a local dog walking and training business, Doggy Detail.
Phone: (707) 342-3079 Email: [email protected]
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. She has competed to title dogs in AKC Rally and she and her husband have a local dog walking and training business, Doggy Detail.
Phone: (707) 342-3079 Email: [email protected]
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Judy Gamet
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 Email: [email protected] |
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Sherry Al-Mufti
Sherry has been a dog trainer for over 30 years working personally and professionally with humans and dogs as a breeder, handler and trainer. Sherry's philosophy about dog rules is that there are no hard and fast rules. Instead, she encourages dog owners to create their own rules according to how they want their pets to fit into their household. After all, it's their home, their dog, their life. They should feel free to set limits that work for them. For many years, she also competed and placed in regional and national obedience trials with Siberian Huskies, one of the world's notoriously independent and challenging breeds. Sherry currently runs The Polished Pup and works with reactive dogs. Phone: (925) 366-6701 Email: [email protected] |
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Teresa Russell
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: [email protected] |
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Joan Constantine
Joan has been an active member of VDTC since 1985 and is our Rally Instructor. 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) Email: [email protected] |
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