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Available Training

Personal training is available during the day throughout the week & selected week nights and Saturdays.

We can help you with your behaviour concerns, pet household obedience, as well as regular or competition obedience in CKC, Rally or Schutzhund.

Tracking is available on a one-on-one individual basis as well as classes throughout the summer and fall. Please call for more information regarding upcoming classes in your area.

Available soon: Obedience classes and drop-ins in the park in both the Strathmore and Langdon areas, call for more information.

Training Behind the Scenes

Sandy has been training dogs since her early teens but didn’t actually get the bug of competing until after moving to Germany in 1988. This is where she purchased her first German Shepherd and started training with the SV Stollhofen Schutzhund Club.

Being the first woman and only Canadian in the club she not only was tackling the language but also was determined to break the barrier between the men on the field and the women in the kitchen concept. Within months she was hooked and soon the hobby became a lifestyle with her becoming determined to learn all she could in order to excel in the sport of Schutzhund.

With her first dog, Jonny von Langruck, she soon became the first woman and Canadian to ever train and title a dog in the Stollhofen club. Not only did she receive her SchH1 but also with High Score tracking and High Score SchH1.

Sandy has trained a multitude of dogs; not only her own but many for other people as well. Typically finding herself being handed ones that were ‘untrainable’ or with extreme behaviour issues. Not long after acquiring them she would have trained and started trialing, eventually obtaining their CD, BH, TD’s. Most were ready for higher Schutzhund and CKC titles when they were handed back. A couple of her more favourite dogs are shown starting with her young female, Schonerbergs Addie, which she is in the midst of training.

Not only does she enjoy training dogs but she has also enjoyed helping others learn and train to high levels including her daughter, Chantelle, who became the youngest in Canada to ever train and compete with her own dog in schutzhund to a SchH3 level.

Sandy strives to help people build a happy and positive relationship between themselves and their dogs. She believes in working with each dog and handler as individuals, training them according to their own personalities as every dog and person is different.

Even though Sandy has been training dogs for over 20 years, she believes that training never ends and that we can learn something from every dog. Because the training of animals continually evolves, she continually attends educational seminars and works with some of the top trainers in the world in order to pass on those skills to others.