Cindy has been training and competing in agility since 1990 and is a Masters level judge for the Agility Association of Canada (AAC) and an Excellent level judge for the Canadian Kennel Club. Recently, Cindy had the honour of judging the 2004 AAC Nationals in Montreal.
Cindy also teaches agility seminars, is active in herding and herding dog rescue, is owner/operator of Cavorting K9s Retreat boarding kennel, and trains and competes with almost all of her 18 dogs.
Stew is a Masters level judge for the Agility Association of Canada and and is currently living in Saskatoon, going to Vet College.
Stew has been competing in dog sports for the last 15 years, including Schutzhund, agility, obedience, and confirmation. He has put an ATChC on his first agility dog Rem, a yellow lab, and is currently running his Belgian Malinois, Reo and Yikes, at the advanced/masters level. Stew has placed many different performance titles on a variety of dogs, ranging from rough collies and labs to Malinois.
Matt has been active in the sport of agility since the first time he saw a dog run a course, seeing agility as the "real life" obedience that many active dogs need, especially the off leash bonds that develop.
Matt has trained two dogs to the Masters level (taking both to the Nationals), and is working with his young dog Maybe. He has trained people to train dogs for 9 years, is a Masters level judge for the Agility Association of Canada, and has judged throughout western Canada. He's owner/operator of a Calgary home-based dog daycare.
Darcy became addicted to agility in1998, enticed by the sport's challenges and sportsmanship. He has worked with a wide variety of personal dogs, from Masters level "farm dog" Ripken (sadly missed), "Starters for Life" rescue dog Griffey (no longer!), to his highly-wired pup - Elly the Border Collie, destined to be on the Nationals podium once Darcy harnesses her explosive energy. He is now working with young rescue Tater.
As an Masters level judge for the Agility Association of Canada, Darcy has judged all over Canada. He had the honour of judging the 2007 AAC Nationals in Ontario.
Dante Camacho (Guest Instructor)
Dante holds the titles of Brazilian Agility Champion and Agility Champion
of the Americas and Caribbean Championship held in Peru, and has represented
Brazil several times at the FCI World Championships.
Dante's handling and teaching skills are very European and have been influenced
by his experiences with some of the top handlers in the world, including
Relinde Peschier, Patrick Servais (France) , Jenny Damm (Sweden), Pere
Saavedra (Spain) and recently Silvia Trkman (Slovakia) and Silvia Vanholt
(Germany - WC 2005 and 3rd place individual Large dog in 2006), all who
have been World Champions with their dogs previously (some more than once).
Dante's unique handling style work on tightening turns, finding the best
path for the dog, and improving course times.
Susan Sutcliffe (Guest Intructor)
As a breeder, trainer and handler of her dogs, Susan’s adaptation of her schooling and knowledge has made her a Pioneer in Animal Lameness Theralink Rehabilitation. Theralink is a new team approach that is SIMPLE for owners who want to play an active role in helping their dogs heal. Susan’s passion and future direction is to teach, whether it’s teaching owners ‘how to help their own dogs heal’ or teaching people how to become great therapists for dogs. She teaches Seminars on performance enhancement, injury prevention and rehabilitation.
Susan was bit by the agility bug 11 years ago and she considers herself
fortunate to learn from some top people in agility from around North America.
She is thrilled by the success of those that she has had he pleasure of
working with as a patient, student or peer.