Regina Steiner
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Regina Steiner teaches Pet Obedience, Rally and Competition Obedience, and has been teaching for the club for over 10 years. She has been involved in competition obedience since 1983, and has earned over 100 titles in AKC, CKC, ASCA and UKC competitions. She has titled dogs in Obedience, Schutzhund, Rally, Flyball, Tracking, Conformation, Herding, and NADAC Agility. Regina has been doing private in-home training, both competition and pet obedience, for many years. She feels very strongly that a great bond with your pet can be created and enhanced thru good obedience training.
Regina's titled dogs include: 8 German Shepherds, a Papillon, and a Siberian Husky. Her current competition dog is OTCH Von Sontausen Holy Grail UDX8 OGM BN GN VER RE TD HSCs ("Bunny"). Bunny's accomplishments include: * #1 Obedience German Shepherd for 2015, in multiple point systems. * Earned an invitation to the National Obedience Championship (NOC) five consecutive years. Bunny was invited in 2016 as the #1 GSD, and finished in the Top 50 in 2014 and 2016. * Invited to (and competed at) the Inaugural Westminster Obedience Competition in 2016. Invitations were sent to the top 150 obedience dogs in the country, based on OTCH points. * German Shepherd Dog Club of America (GSDCA) Top Obedience Dog of the Year for 2015. * GSDCA Obedience Victrix (National Specialty High Combined) for 2015. * GSDCA Rally Victrix (National Specialty High Combined) for 2016. * Bunny is the only dog of any breed to have earned both OTCH and HGH (large flock sheep tending) titles. |
The current up-and-comer is Cora, a young German Shepherd. Cora is in training and will be competing in Obedience, Rally, Tracking, and Herding. For now, she is doing a great job as demo dog for many of the classes.
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Leighann Barns
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I started in the obedience ring as a teenager training beautiful champion miniature poodles. The poodles were owned by my friend/boss/mentor who was a poodle breeder. I trained and competed the dogs in obedience up to the Utility level. I have also trained and competed my own poodles in the obedience ring. I have trained and competed my Chesapeake Bay Retrievers in tracking up to the VST level. My present Chesapeake is competing in hunt tests and field trials. It takes a tremendous amount of training and obedience training to compete at these competitions. I enjoy training the dog for the field work and the dog absolutely loves it! He gets so excited when he knows we are going to train. I love training the dogs, bonding with the animal, seeing the dog absorbing, understanding and trying to please the handler. All these years of working with the dogs and I never tire of training them and working with them to make them better members of society, happier dogs and a pleasure to live with. I am still learning more about training and understanding the dogs and that is part of what I love about it, we never stop growing and learning. That helps us become better handlers/dog owners.
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I also have a background in horses. I graduated with a BS from Centenary College in Hackettstown with a major in Equine Studies. I have had the pleasure to work at some wonderful horse farms. I have worked with Standardbred race horses, dressage horses, fox hunting horses, polo ponies, CDE carriage driving horses and ponies. I have owned ponies and horses my whole life and still do. Many of the methods used to train and work with horses carry over and are the same methods used in training the dogs.
Jen teaches both Obedience and K9 Nose Work for the club.
Dina Melendez
See Dina's bio under Agility
See Dina's bio under Agility
Dina teaches both Obedience and Agility classes for PDTC.