About
Kris trains her dogs and her students dogs with relationship based methods and teaches the importance of a strong bond which is essential in any partnership between dog and handler. Kris sees each dog as an individual and therefore applies different positive motivation based training techniques for all dogs especially for dogs that are fearful or have been abused. These dogs need special attention and during their training sessions sometimes the tiniest improvements are the most important. With innovative ideas and play based training sessions, fearful dogs can learn to love the sport of agility. One of Kris's main goals is to inspire her students to love working with their dogs and to develop the confidence in their own training to not only build stronger bonds, but enable them to reach their individual goals within the sport. Kris focuses on methods which build confidence and confident dogs who perform without hesitation. In any agility partnership between dog and handler, Kris stresses trust in each other which evolves into dynamic, fast agility teams.
Kris has earned over 150 Agility titles with 9 different dogs to the Championship level from the three largest Agility Associations in the United States. Kris and her Border Collie Lochlan have appeared in the Final Events at the 2005, 2006 and 2007 USDAA World Games in Scottsdale, Arizona. She currently shares her home with 10 dogs (4 rescued Keeshonden, 2 Border Collies, a rescued Pomeranian an Alaskan Malamute, a rescued 3 legged American Eskimo and a Hungarian Mudi) and a cat named Juniper.
