Stoke Prior Dog Training Club

History

Stoke Prior Dog Training Club started approximately 30 years ago with just a few members training for competitive obedience.

We had many enquiries about pet training classes which we started about 20 years ago and they have proved to be very successful.

Head Trainer:

Roz Valentine

Roz founded Stoke Prior Dog Training Club and still leads the training team. She is a qualified Championship Obedience judge.More about Roz and her dogs can be found back in the main HeelSitStay website

Assistant Trainer:

Louise Williams

Louise has attended the club since Brecon (on the left) was a puppy and she joined the training team in Nov 2003.

Louise works at Wythall Animal Sanctuary and rehomed both her dogs from there. Arnie (on the right) was unhomeable owing to a severe heart defect that gave him a life expectancy of 6-12 months, however, with lots of TLC he is now 6 years old and going strong.

Louise and Arnie compete in open and championship obedience shows and to date (Dec 2009) have won 32 rosettes. Their highest honour so far came in August 2009 when they won a beginners class qualifying them out of pre beginners for ever!! Arnie's KC registered name is "No More Dicky Ticker P-Beg Ex", having gained his Pre Beginner Excellent Obedience award and is well on the way to gaining his Beginner Excellent award. Louise and Arnie will be continuing their obedience career in 2010."