First photo by JTpawprints, all others by Karen Hocker
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K9 Nose Work™
Training Camp
Staff
for Camp Coleman
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members may be added or changed without notice as
needed.
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Ron
Gaunt CNWI, Lead Instructor |
 NACSW™
& K9 Nose Work™ Founder/Nose Work Instructor
Ron Gaunt has lived and worked with dogs the majority
of his life. Ron began working with dogs and training
for police dog work in 1970. He has trained, worked
and managed service dogs for more than 40 years
consecutively. During Ron’s 12-year tenure in the K9
unit with the Inglewood Police Department, he had the
honor of working with three different K9 partners.
Among Ron’s many accomplishments are multiple national
certifications in detection, both explosives and
narcotics. Along with many years of training detection
dogs, Ron has trained hundreds of dogs for police work
encompassing all aspects of K9 police work. One of
Ron’s many accomplishments was that of Master Trainer.
In 1981 Ron was the K-9 Program Director with the
Inglewood Police Department and the training director
of the Los Angeles Schutzhund Club.
Currently, Ron is the owner/operator of Travel’n
ManDogs, a private detection firm established in 1995
with the purpose and objective of providing a service
to private business and corporate America. His goal is
to augment current security systems to facilitate the
ultimate in personal safety and protection. Presently
he is a working manager/handler of multiple Explosive
Detection Dog teams deployed in the private sector;
many of his clients are “Fortune 500” companies.
Ron has bred, raised, and trained in excess of 100
working dogs that have obtained degrees in both sport
and police trials. Ron’s years of experience includes
multiple breeds, but in recent years he has
concentrated on German Shepherds, Labradors and
Belgian Malinois for service detection work. |
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Amy
Herot CPDT-KA, CNWI, Lead Instructor |
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 NACSW™
& K9 Nose Work™
Founder/Nose Work Instructor
Amy is a professional K9 trainer and handler and
brings over a decade of experience to her work. She
has certified teams in Narcotics and Explosives and
has logged over 1500 instructional hours in
detection dog training. As co-founder of K9 Nose
Work, and the National Association of Canine Scent
Work Association,LLC™ (NACSW), she has sought to bring
that experience to companion dogs and handlers
through the development of nose work classes and
sport events. She and her partners launched and
sponsored the first organized Fun Nose Work
competition, a Nose Work Practice Match and the
first national K9 Nose Work™ trial, a titling event
in January 2009.
In the canine sport world Amy has trained dogs for
tracking, agility, sheepherding, protection sports,
and detection. She has competed nationally with her
Dutch Shepherd, Maya and took 3rd place in Narcotics
Detection at the Gold Coast K9 Working Dog Trials
and 1st place, open division, at the Oxnard Police
K9 Foundation Inaugural Trial, 2009. Her Belgian
Malinois, Seven, is a nationally certified
explosives detection dog and took 1st place in the
Explosives Building Search at the 2009 Ventura
County Sheriff's K9 Trial.
Amy holds a Bachelor of Science from NYU and is
nationally certified through the Certification
Council for Professional Dog Trainers (CCPDT). Additionally,
she is a graduate of the Balu Academy for Dog
Trainers and is a John Rogerson associate here in
the U.S. Amy is an AKC Canine Good Citizen
evaluator and is certified in Pet First Aid and
CPR.
Her professional memberships and affiliations
include the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT),
Southern California Dog Trainers’ Forum (SCDTF),
Southern California Schutzhund Club, West Los
Angeles Obedience Training Club and International
Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators (IABTI). Amy
gives much volunteer time and expertise to the
betterment of shelter dogs. Some of Amy’s other
achievements have been the 2007 President's
Volunteer Service Award, spcaLA's 2005 Outstanding
H.E.A.L. (Helping Enhance Animals Lives) Volunteer
and 2006 Volunteer of the Year.
In addition to her working dogs, Amy’s oldest canine
companion is her beloved rescue dog, Jesse, a German
Shepherd mix and Canine Good Citizen. Amy is owner
of the Los Angeles based All Good Dogs, LLC. www.allgooddogs.biz
Jill Marie
O'Brien,
CPDT-KA, CNWI, Lead Instructor |
 NACSW™
& K9 Nose Work™
Founder/Nose Work Instructor
Jill Marie has been working with and training dogs
since 1987. Jill Marie spent fourteen years as
Director of Behavior and Training for spcaLA. During
her tenure with spcaLA, she supervised the creation
and development of that agency's first Animal
Behavior and Training Department since the agency’s
inception in 1877. Jill’s career at spcaLA started
in 1996 when she joined the agency to fulfill a
grant from KalKan to educate inner-city youth on dog
bite prevention and feral dog safety. While there
she participated in the Teaching Love and Compassion
program (TLC), a program that matches at-risk youth
with shelter dogs for a 3 week program that teaches
young people life skills in patience, anger
management and conflict resolution. Jill Marie also
developed a Canine Behavior Assessment protocol in
2000 that was the only in-house assessment used for
the evaluation of the shelter dogs housed at the
agency.
Jill Marie's years of dog training experience
includes agility, tracking, Animal Assisted Therapy,
Schutzhund and detection training along with many
hours of K9 Nose Work development and instruction.
Her training philosophy is one of building strong
working relationships and bonds between dogs and
their handlers using positive, fun and motivational
techniques. She is a strong advocate of ongoing
education and development of skills. Not only has
she attended many educational conferences and
courses, but she has also organized educational
events featuring some of the most sought-after
lecturers and behavior experts in the world. She
believes education for the humans is as important as
education for the canines. Jill Marie is a Certified
Pet Dog Trainer, long time member of the Association
of Pet Dog Trainers and is a facilitator for the
Southern California Dog Trainers Forum.
Jill Marie and her dog Beckett are a nationally
certified Narcotics Detection Team and took 1st
place, novice division in the Oxnard Police K9
Inaugural Trial, 2009. She has been a long-time
agility enthusiast and has competed and trained in
agility since 1990. In addition to her work with
Beckett, Jill and her other dogs have earned many
training titles and have competed at the USDAA's
Grand Prix of Dog Agility. Jill Marie’s newest
partner is Raven, a Belgian Malinois. Jill Marie
shares her life with her son and wonderful husband
for whom she thanks everyday for their patience and
understanding as she continues to build and develop
her understanding and skill working with dogs and
their people.
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Leah
Gangelhoff
CNWI, Instructor |
 Certified
Nose Work™
Instructor
Leah is a professional
dog trainer and owner of Flint Hill K-9 Training LLC
in Birmingham, AL. She received her formal education
in dog training and behavior, with a particular
interest in detection training from Triple Crown
School for Dog Trainers in 2001-2002 and has been in
business professionally since then. She also holds a
degree in psychology and has an extensive background
in psychological research in the areas of learning
and developmental theory, both of which provide a
very strong foundation for her work by significantly
deepening her understanding of canine training
methodologies. She is a member of the
Association of Pet Dog Trainers
and the International Association of Canine
Professionals, and is a Canine Good Citizen
Evaluator.
Prior to moving back
to her home city of Birmingham, Leah lived and
worked in Los Angeles for 16 years and trained in
narcotics detection with founders Ron Gaunt, Amy
Herot, and Jill Marie O'Brien, certifying with two
of her dogs, a female Papillon and a male German
Shepherd as narcotics detection teams.
Leah has also
worked with the Greater
Birmingham Humane Society conducting staff trainings
on canine behavior, implementing training techniques
to help dogs become more adoptable, and conducting
canine temperament assessments. As dog training is
an ever-evolving discipline, Leah continually
educates herself by studying with the world's top
trainers and staying current on the latest training
and behavior seminars, research, and literature.
Leah currently (and joyfully!) teaches K9 Nose Work
Classes and has recently started one of her dogs, a
male Papillon named Chip who is quite exuberant
about the whole thing. Leah also trains and competes
in Schutzhund with her German Shepherds.
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Michele Garlick, CNWI, Instructor |
Certified
Nose Work™
Instructor
 Michele
Garlick is a professional dog trainer and owner of
Whole K9 LLC in Orinda, CA. She holds a BS in
Psychology, and in her first career as a Corporate
Trainer in New York City, she translated various
technologies and technical jargon into a useful
resources for business development initiatives. She
came to pet dog training over 6 years ago in
California while pursuing her competitive interests
in dog sports. Since then, Michele has worked with
numerous pet and shelter dogs at the East Bay SPCA
and San Francisco SPCA and has taught a variety of
classes from puppy socialization through reactive
dog.
While working with pet and shelter dogs, Michele was
seeking a creative outlet for reactive dogs and
their handlers, and this led her to attend the first
Northern California K9 Nose Work® workshop. Michele
loved the possibilities, became a certified
instructor and now teaches all levels of K9 Nose
Work®; working with handlers with shy and reactive
dogs looking for fun up through teams preparing for
NW3 competition.
She is a graduate of the Marin Humane Society's
Canine Behavior Academy as well as Bob Bailey’s
Chicken Camps, and is a member of the Association of
Pet Dog Trainers. Michele currently serves as the
Detection Liaison for The Police and Working K-9
Foundation, is certified in pet first aid and CPR
and is active with local German Shepherd rescue.
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Wendy Krehbiel,
CNWI,
Instructor |
Certified
Nose Work™
Instructor
 Wendy
is a professional dog trainer and owner of Tell a
Tail Dog Training in Livermore, CA.
She
participated in the first nose work seminar in
Northern California and became completely hooked on
the sport. Since that day she has become a Certified
Nose Work Instructor and teaches all levels of K9
Nose Work®
classes
at her training facility. She frequently hosts and
organizes K9 Nose Work® trials in Northern
California and travels throughout the United States
to teach others how to host this growing
sport. Wendy also works for the NACSW (National
Association of Canine Scent Work) behind the scenes
on software and is the National Trial Coordinator
which involves managing all aspects of the sport
including membership, scheduling of events, customer
service, etc. Prior to pursuing dog training as a
career, Wendy earned her BS in Computer Science at
Michigan State University and worked as a software
engineer and manager.
Wendy shares her home
with two dogs. She has competed in agility with both
but has been focusing on K9 Nose Work®
with her
dog reactive Golden Retriever Renegade. "Ren" is a
intense working dog that earned his NW2 title in
2011 and is now training for NW3. Wendy also plans
to compete with her 10 year old golden Zack.
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Gail McCarthy, CNWI, Instructor |
 Certified
Nose Work™
Instructor
Gail McCarthy is a Certified
K9 Nose Work™
Instructor and Judge for the National Association of Canine
Scent Work. Gail has been training detection dogs
since 1992 and is the co-founder and head trainer of
the Massachusetts Rescue & Recovery K9 Unit, a
canine search and rescue (SAR) organization which
operates in Massachusetts. Gail also is a canine
handler and an evaluator with the Federal Emergency
Management Agency's Urban Search and Rescue (USAR),
MA Task Force 1. Over the course of her SAR career,
Gail has certified five dogs to the advanced level
in urban search and rescue (rubble work), wilderness
SAR and human remains detection. Gail is the
Chairperson for the Massachusetts State Search and
Rescue Federation and serves on the Board of
Directors for the Northeast Wilderness Search and
Rescue. Some of the notable searches in which Gail
has participated include the search for six
firefighters who died in the Worcester Cold Storage
Fire, the search for seven astronauts who perished
when the Columbia Shuttle exploded over East Texas,
the search for two workers who died in the Quincy
Shipyard Collapse, the search for an apartment
dweller who died in the Gloucester Apartment
Building Fire and the USAR response to Hurricanes
Gustave and Ike. In recognition of Gail's consistent
dedication to the promotion of volunteer canine SAR
in Massachusetts and to the training she gives to
her dogs and to her fellow canine handlers, the
Massachusetts State Senate awarded her a
"Massachusetts State Senate Citation," a legislative
award of distinction. Gail is pleased to bring her
experience to Camp in this new exciting
sport.
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Penny Scott-Fox CPDT-KA, CNWI, Instructor |
 Certified
Nose Work™
Instructor
Penny
Scott-Fox is one of the original seven founding
instructors (CNWI) who helped popularize the
activity and sport of K9 Nose Work® in Southern
California. At her Altadena, CA dog training school,
Scott-Fox Training, Penny teaches nose work teams
for all levels of competition. Her business has also
hosted Odor Recognition Tests as well as sanctioned
K9 Nose Work® trials. Penny is an avid nose work
competitor who started training with Harry the
Beauceron who tragically died days before the
inaugural K9 Nose Work® trial in 2008. Harry is now
memorialized as each trial honors his enthusiasm by
awarding a rescue dog and handler team the “Harry
Award”. Penny’s current nose work partner is Turner,
the peppy Flat-Coated Retriever, who was the second
dog to get her NW3 title and gives the Border
Collies a run for their money in agility. When not
teaching nose work, Penny conducts behavior
consultations and dog training classes for puppies
and dogs in pet manners, obedience, agility, Canine
Good Citizen and therapy dog certification
preparation. The cornerstone of Scott-Fox
Training’s methodology focuses on building a
relationship between owners and their dogs.
As one of the nation’s most respected dog behavior
specialists, Penny is an accomplished speaker and
has lectured around the country for Emily Weiss
Consulting on the SAFER behavior assessment for dogs
in animal shelters. Penny worked for the Pasadena
Humane Society in Pasadena, California for twelve
years and has extensive experience training shelter
dogs and evaluating their behaviors. She has
developed several behavior modification programs for
dogs and cats in the shelter and rescue environment.
Her successful techniques have been covered by
media outlets around the world, including: the
Discovery Channel, CNN, Fox, French television,
Japanese radio, the Los Angeles Times, and People
magazine of Australia. Penny is a Fellow of the Pet
Behavior Institute, Durham, England.
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Dorothy Turley CPDT-KA, CNWI, Instructor |
Certified
Nose Work™
Instructor
 Dorothy
is a professional full-time dog trainer in the
Olympia, Washington area. Her business, Let’s Talk
Dogs, specializes in pet dog training, behavior
issues and K9 Nose Work®. She began training as a
hobby in 1995 and quickly became involved with
rescue and education work as a volunteer. She
eventually transitioned to training others and quit
her day job in 2002 to pursue dog training as a
full-time professional.
Dorothy teaches classes, private lessons and also
hosts educational seminars and workshops. She also
travels as the working assistant to Kathy Sdao, MS,
CAAB (Bright Spot Dog Training). She is a Certified
Pet Dog Trainer-Knowledge Assessed (CPDT-KA) and a
Certified Nose Work Instructor (CNWI) and continues
her education by attending seminars and workshops.
She has graduated from the Dogs of Course Instructor
training, CNWI instructor training and 3 sessions of
Bob Bailey’s “Chicken Camp.” Over the years she has
also volunteers at her local shelters and various
rescue groups.
In early 2010 Dorothy attended her first K9 Nose
Work® seminar with Ron Gaunt. She was hooked. She
knew this was a great activity that she wanted to
share with her clients. She began working with her
dog (and car) reactive dog, Zoey, and never looked
back. She had no plans to compete with this
particular “problem” dog so was thrilled when Zoey
not only received her NW1 title but also took first
place. She continues to compete with Zoey and Gracie
(NW1) and has recently started her Chihuahuas Bear
and Sophia in the sport.
Dana Crevling CPDT-KA, CNWI, Camp Director |
 Dana
has made working with or for shelter dogs part of
her career since 1986. She worked for not for profit
animal agencies for 13 years, until 1999, when she
started Dogs of Course with the first Instructor
Training Course class. Her dedication to improving
the lives of dogs and their owners through quality
education at all levels was the motivating factor
when she started the business and is the guiding
force for all projects she creates. Dana continues to support charitable
organizations by periodically running fundraising
events and activities.
She started her professional career in dog training
at Red Acre Farm Hearing Dog Center, as a trainer
and then the Department Director. Her professional
experience in training and behavior also includes
animal shelter program coordinator for volunteers,
pet training instructor, lecturer, shelter
consultant, and Yankee Golden Retriever Rescue’s
adoption coordinator/counselor.
Dana is driven by her thirst for her own personal
education. She has attended hundreds of events
including seminars, dog camps, chicken camps,
courses, and conferences. Committed to promoting dog
training to the public as a skilled profession, she
is a member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers.
She passed the first national certification test for
dog trainers earning the title Certified
Professional Dog Trainer, Knowledge Accessed. She
also has a B.A. in Business Administration from
Babson College.
Dana has been competing in dog sports since 1984,
believing in having fun first and foremost. She has
titled in
K9 Nose Work™,
obedience, field, conformation, earthdog,
rally, and agility.
Dana shares her home with her husband, John, as well
as Flat-Coated Retriever, Dazzle; Rizzie, the
Norfolk Terrier; and Monty,
the PW Corgi.
Lisa Rodier, CNWI, Camp Co-Director,
Instructor |
Certified
Nose Work™
Instructor
Dog training and behavior have been a passion for Lisa for 15 years.
Along the way, one of her best educational
experiences came as a shelter volunteer in
Charlottesville, VA, performing behavior
evaluations with one of her training mentors. She
has participated in therapy dog work as a handler
and evaluator, competed with her Bouvier in
carting and rally obedience, and has taught
therapy dog/CGC and carting classes. She is
currently a CGC evaluator and an active volunteer
with the American Bouvier Rescue League (ABRL). In
conjunction with the ABRL, she brought two K9 Nose
Work workshops to Georgia in 2010. She loves Nose
Work because it’s accessible and a great sport for
any dog, and has introduced Nose Work to her local
county animal shelter where she volunteers her
time to work with dogs in the sport.
Lisa worked previously for Service Dogs of Virginia, and spent many
years in marketing in the cycling industry. Today,
she is a frequent contributor to the Whole Dog
Journal, works on freelance sports marketing/PR
projects, and is excited to be assisting with the
launch of a new Atlanta-area veterinary
rehabilitation & fitness facility. She received her
undergraduate degree from the University of Rhode
Island, and an M.B.A. from Boston University.
Currently, she lives in Georgia with her husband,
Chris.
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Christy Waehner CNWI, Instructor |
 Certified
Nose Work™
Instructor
Christy
first stepped into the obedience ring at the Chicago
International Dog Show when she was 13. However,
training methods were such that she found it little
fun for her or her dog, and stopped until many years
later when the light bulb went on for her at a
clicker training seminar.
Many seminars and classes
later, she became the instructor for the "clicker
class" at one of the top agility centers in GA.
In February 2010, she went to
her first K9 Nose Work Workshop with her Doberman
Pinscher, Parker and they were both immediately
hooked!
In an effort to understand
what Parker was doing, and noticing the importance
that Ron and Amy placed on learning to read your
dog's body, she began taping Parker's hunts.
Together, Parker and Christy built a strong
foundation with videos showing the progression of a
dog and handler new to the sport. Those videos are
often referred to at K9 Nose Work Seminars and
Workshops, and she and co-instructor Lisa Rodier are
working on a DVD using those videos.
Christy is
active in Doberman Rescue, and the Atlanta Doberman
Pinscher Club, and teaches K9 Nose Work classes with
Lisa Rodier. She shares her home with husband Dave,
Parker, and Monty, a new, young, rescued male
Doberman, who's following in Parker's pawprints.
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