Since 1999, Sue has been a trainer at BSKD and her passion is teaching freestyle dog dancing because of the creativity and challenges involved.  Sue love to teach her students to excel in this sport.  She has several students who have attained the highest titles in dog dancing.  Some students have gone on to teach dog dancing in other cities in Colorado.  KPT is also one of her favorite classes to teach because she thinks it is so important to teach owners how to train their puppies correctly from the beginning.  Besides dog dancing and KPT, Sue also teaches Jr. Beginners and Beginners.

 

   Sue has 3 dogs present:  2 yellow Labs and a Golden Retriever.  Her titles are numerous:  AKC CD, CDX, RN, UKC-CD and in the world of dog dancing:  W-FD/MF, W-FDX/MF, W-FDM/MF, W-CH.FD/MF, W-PDP-FD, WFD/HTM, W-FDX/HTM, w-FDM/HTM, W-CH.FD/HTM.  She has accomplished a lot of dancing titles with her other dogs as well.  Sue enjoys learning as much as she can regarding obedience and dog dancing.

 

   Sue has always said that her yellow Lab, “SIR’ made her look good.  The pair attained the highest title in dog dancing on 4/27/13.  That title is the PDP in Musical Freestyle (Perfect Dance Partner).  During their journey in dog dancing, they never NQ’d.  They won the trophies each time they competed.  She is especially proud that in 2008, they competed in dog dancing with others from different countries and won the prestigious “Attila Award” which is equivalent to High In Trial in AKC obedience.  Now Sue has another Lab, “Love” who she feels makes her look good also.  Love has yet to dip her paw into the obedience world but time will tell on what she can accomplish!  Love has started her journey in dog dancing and is doing very well and has also never NQ’d.

 

  Sue feels the most important things to teach a dog owner is how to bond with your dog.  How to gain the dog’s trust, love, attention, motivation, and desire to want to do whatever he/she can do for you.  Look for Sue on Saturdays and a dog dancing class on Thursdays.