Leah Gardner

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An Advanced handler with 20+ years experience with rescued animals and dog rehabilitation. Leah has taught obedience for many years and is now teaching agility and clicker training.

After having to be on a long waiting list, to get into an agility club, Leah decided to set up a club to help owners further their bond with their dogs.

Leah’s dog "Link", a rescue from Wales, (who she hand raised), is a Senoir agility dog, who qualified for Olympia in 2006 and came 2nd in the final. He also came third in the 2002 Clever dogs championships.

Herbie, who is her youngest dog, went Senior in under a year of competing, he had 8 wins, as well as numerous other places, which also gained him 4th in the Agility Club points table and 2nd in the Agility Eye points table in 2005. He has now gone Advanced in under 3 months.

Herbie also won Rescue senior dog of the year 2006 and overall Senior agility dog and handler 2006.

She also qualified her husband's dog, “Shy”, for the first ever Novice Olympia Semi finals.

In 2003 Leah gained over 35 places with her 2 working collies, as well as many clear rounds and in 2005 gained over 21 top 3 places.

Wendy Card

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Wendy has been competing in agility for 15 years. She works a W.S.D (with whom she feels a very special bond) in grade 6 at the present time.

Wendy loves all dogs but has a soft spot for lurchers and cannot imagine having a pack without at least one lurcher in it.

Wendy believes in positive reward based training with lots of motivation. This should be enjoyable and fun for both handler and dog. She also believes in treating everyone and every dog as individuals.

Malcom Card

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Malcom has been competing in agility for 14 years and is now running his fourth agility dog, a young 3/4 collie cross 1/4 whippet, hoping he will emulate Spud (collie x whippet) now running in grade 7, a very very special dog.

Experience has come from watching, listening and talking to some of the best handlers, trainers (and wife Wendy) over the years.

He believes in being firm but fair with both handlers and dogs. He enjoys the competitive side, but this is not a necessity to enjoy agility.

He is always open to new ideas and methods and will try to help any dog or handler with a particular problem. He enjoys the challenge of getting the best out of dog and handler, especially the handler.