Vallejo Dog Training Club
Trainer Bios
Mary Ash
Mary comes to us from the Napa Valley Dog Training Club where she has been teaching pet dog and competition classes since 1995. She started training Dalmations and currently has Australian Shepherds. She has trained her own dogs in Agility, Rally, & Obedience and has multiple titles on them. On the weekends you can find Mary at dog training workshops and trials, helping run events, working her own dogs or helping her students and friends work their dogs.
Mary comes to us from the Napa Valley Dog Training Club where she has been teaching pet dog and competition classes since 1995. She started training Dalmations and currently has Australian Shepherds. She has trained her own dogs in Agility, Rally, & Obedience and has multiple titles on them. On the weekends you can find Mary at dog training workshops and trials, helping run events, working her own dogs or helping her students and friends work their dogs.
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.
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.
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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. |
Debra Henkle
Debra Henkle of Vendetta Boxers (established in 2005) is a Boxer Breeder/Exhibitor & Multi Breed Professional Handler. She has been handling dogs since late 2005. On her first weekend in the ring with her first boy, on day 2 of the show weekend they took BOB. Granted there was only 1 other Boxer there BUT it was breeder handled by a breeder that has been breeding and showing her own dogs for 10 years. This is the day Debra was bit by the show bug.
In 2012 she started handling other breeds for a few clients. Since then she has only handled a handful of other breeds, including 4 of Barbara’s Bred-By Brittany’s where she put a major reserve on one of them, many of the singles on 2 others and she put all the points on the 4th including 3 majors and 9 GRCH points, plus a Chocolate Lab that she nearly finished. She also put a couple points on a Samoyed. In addition to these she has pointed (nearly singled out several Boxers) including 2 of her own.
Debra Henkle of Vendetta Boxers (established in 2005) is a Boxer Breeder/Exhibitor & Multi Breed Professional Handler. She has been handling dogs since late 2005. On her first weekend in the ring with her first boy, on day 2 of the show weekend they took BOB. Granted there was only 1 other Boxer there BUT it was breeder handled by a breeder that has been breeding and showing her own dogs for 10 years. This is the day Debra was bit by the show bug.
In 2012 she started handling other breeds for a few clients. Since then she has only handled a handful of other breeds, including 4 of Barbara’s Bred-By Brittany’s where she put a major reserve on one of them, many of the singles on 2 others and she put all the points on the 4th including 3 majors and 9 GRCH points, plus a Chocolate Lab that she nearly finished. She also put a couple points on a Samoyed. In addition to these she has pointed (nearly singled out several Boxers) including 2 of her own.
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.
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.
Amy Kitay
Amy joined the dog world when Choni, a yellow flat coated retriever, came into her life in 1996. Choni was one of the first registered yellow flat coats in the country and the first one ever to compete in AKC sports. Choni was intended to be her pet dog. Due of her coat color, Choni was not eligible for the breed ring and was shunned by the FCR fancy. This motivated Amy to prove that her yellow flat coat was just as good as her black brethren.
Choni changed Amy’s life. Not only did she learn how to compete and win, she met hundreds of wonderful people and she also changed the view of the majority of the dog fancy so that now yellows are accepted as part of the breed (but still rejected for conformation). Choni lived for 11 years and during that time they earned 32 titles including: UD, RE (she passed before she could earn the final two legs for an RAE), JH, MX, MXJ, WCX, EAC, EJC, EGC, AAD, CGC. They earned those titles with high scores and placements and Choni was top ranked in obedience and agility.
To this day, Amy is passionate about obedience/rally and is currently a provisional judge. Amy is now beginning to complete the process of becoming an AKC obedience judge.
Amy joined the dog world when Choni, a yellow flat coated retriever, came into her life in 1996. Choni was one of the first registered yellow flat coats in the country and the first one ever to compete in AKC sports. Choni was intended to be her pet dog. Due of her coat color, Choni was not eligible for the breed ring and was shunned by the FCR fancy. This motivated Amy to prove that her yellow flat coat was just as good as her black brethren.
Choni changed Amy’s life. Not only did she learn how to compete and win, she met hundreds of wonderful people and she also changed the view of the majority of the dog fancy so that now yellows are accepted as part of the breed (but still rejected for conformation). Choni lived for 11 years and during that time they earned 32 titles including: UD, RE (she passed before she could earn the final two legs for an RAE), JH, MX, MXJ, WCX, EAC, EJC, EGC, AAD, CGC. They earned those titles with high scores and placements and Choni was top ranked in obedience and agility.
To this day, Amy is passionate about obedience/rally and is currently a provisional judge. Amy is now beginning to complete the process of becoming an AKC obedience judge.
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.
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.
Harriet Tucker
Harriet Tucker has been training and competing in Obedience since 1996, and in Rally since its inception. She is a member of VDTC, San Mateo DTC and Oakland DTC, and currently teaches for all 3 clubs.
Harriet Tucker has been training and competing in Obedience since 1996, and in Rally since its inception. She is a member of VDTC, San Mateo DTC and Oakland DTC, and currently teaches for all 3 clubs.
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Christa Wendlandt
Christa has been active in Search and Rescue since the late 1990's and has trained dogs for Wilderness, Disaster, Water, Evidence and Cadaver Searching. She has participated with her dogs in over 150 searches including the Oaklahoma Bombing, Oakland Fires and the San Francisco Earthquake and has worked as a training advisor to teams to get them mission ready. She is a passionate trainer who uses shaping and positive reinforcement to motivate students in Tracking and Nosework classes and has trained and titled numerous dogs in tracking, obedience, agility and schutzhund. |