professional trainer with MORE THAN 40 years  experience

Hi

I have been training dogs since I was 15 years old, a long long time ago 🙂 Born in Victoria I started out training sheep dogs it wasn’t long before I decided to give Obedience competitions ago. The next 2 years I travelled all over Victoria competing with my Border Collie Kelpie X that I bred myself. He was an amazing dog that was very successful, in fact was unbeaten in 18 months. We went from beginners to the highest title available with over 18 High in Trials  in less than 2 years. I became a qualified obedience instructor for the Ballaarat Obedience Club and my club members were very successful in competetions all over Victoria.

When I moved to New Zealand I was involved in showing and breeding German Shepherds, very briefly Obedience and Aglity and then was bitten by the Schutzhund bug, and have never looked back, While a difficult sport this made it even more of a challenge for me and my dogs.

I am the President of NZ Working Malinois, head trainer and currently competing with 4 dogs and have 2 young malinois pups coming up through the ranks

While obedience is fun and certainly a passion, teaching tracking is something I absolutely love. Tracking in IGP competition is very difficult but there is nothing more satisfying in getting V rated score ie 97 plus out of 100. I would love to teach you and yor dog this amazing sport of tracking.

Awards and titles

Ash- BH IPO1 IPO2 TR3 FH 1   HIGH IN TRIAL x2, HIGH TRACKINGx2, HIGH OBEDIENCE x2, HIGH PROTECTIONx2

Best -BH IPO1 IPO2 IPO3 IGP1 IGP3 FPR1 SPR1 FH V HIGH IN TRIAL , HIGH TRACKING, HIGH OBEDIENCE, HIGH PROTECTION, NATIONAL FH WINNER

Jaxx-BH IGP V IGP 1   100 POINT TRACK X 2,  HIGH IN TRIAL X2 ,HIGH TRACKING X2, HIGH OBEDIENCE X 2 ,HIGH PROTECTION X 2, FIRST NZ IGP NATIONAL WINNER

Stryker – NZ CHAMPION, BH, IGP V, IGP 1, IGP 2, IGP3 X2, FPR1, UPR3, 2ND NZ IGP NATIONAL WINNER, HIGH IN TRIAL X2,  HIGH IN TRACKING X2, HIGH OBEDIENCE X2, HIGH IN PROTECTION x3

Fanta- BH VT, Best BH  IBGH 1

Ozark- BH VT

Arnor -BH-VT Best BH

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