I graduated from Cornell in 1984 where I majored in Animal Science. I met my husband Dwight there and we came home to work his family's dairy farm. I started playing the Agility game in 1996 with my then one year old Australian Shepherd Annie. Annie finished her MX at only three years old. She went on to qualify for three AKC National Agility Championships, earned 48 Excellent Level Qs with 44 placements in the competitive 20" division. She was retired in 2001 due to a chronic back injury. I am currently trialing my son's Australian Shepherd Misty at the Excellent level, she earned 58 first places as of Jan'07. I started teaching agility in 1998. I try and attend as many clinics and seminars as possible and have been lucky enough to work under, Elicia Calhone, Erin Scheaffer, Julie Daniels, Brenda Buja, Bud Huston, Sue Tovino, Rosie Sutherland, Steve Frick and am currently driving to Buffalo every month or so to work with top Masters trainer and judge Cindy Kean. I bring back all the knowledge I have gained from these wonderful trainers and share it with my students. I strongly believe there is no one way to do agility and try to customize my teaching to each individual dog handler team's goals and abilities. I have taken students up from Novice through Masters and also have students with no desire to compete who just want to enjoy quality time with their dogs. I do require some basic obedience before starting agility. Agility is an off leash sport and my training field though located down away from the road is not fenced in.Your dog must come when called before starting classes. You will find a sit, down and stay very helpful also. Aggressive dogs are not welcome. My classes are very small, no more than 5 dogs/class and are grouped by goals and abilities. They run continuously from April until as long as the weather will allow. Day and evening classes are available.Please email me for specific times and levels available.
MACH ADCH Parker
