Head Instructor: Karin Apfel
Karin Apfel has been involved with dogs and dog rescue and training for over 20 years. She has trained and competed with her own dogs in a wide variety of sports and disciplines including obedience, flyball, agility, rally-obedience, tracking, and dock diving. She has also taken classes on training for Schutzhund, herding and Search and Rescue and has done home visits for rescue organizations. For the past 15 years, she has taken extensive courses in behaviour studies to assist in the rehabilitation and training of dogs with fear, aggression or other problems.
Karin is a long-time member of the Canadian Association of Professional Pet Dog Trainers (CAPPDT), the Canadian Kennel Club (CKC), the North American Mixed Breed Registry (NAMBR), the Agility Association of Canada (AAC), the North American Flyball Association (NAFA), the Canadian Rally Obedience Association (CARO) and both the World and Provincial Dock Dogs clubs and is a CKC Canine Good Neighbor evaluator. She is also certified in pet first aid.

Brenda Brown - Assistant Instructor
Brenda has titled her dogs in a wide variety of sports including field work, obedience, dock diving, flyball, rally-obedience and conformation. She is currently training all three of her current dogs in fieldwork using force-free methods only. She is a member os the CAPPDT, DockDogs, the CKC and CARO.




Kris Bailey - Assistant Instructor
Kris has trained multiple dogs for international competition in agility. She titled her rescued Border Collie Askum with an ADC before the age of two. Kris currently competes in dock diving with her latest Border Collie, Panic. Kris also trained her Doberman Taffy Thief of Hearts in Schutzhund and Obedience and has also done movie and television work with her dogs.