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Carole Bryant
Chief Instructor
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Carole Bryant has been a RNSWCC (DogsNSW) qualified dog obedience instructor since 1968 and is a Certificate IV Behavioural Dog Trainer (Delta Society CGC Instructor). She occasionally breeds German Shepherd Dogs under her Tristania prefix and competes with her dogs in Obedience, Tracking, Agility, Jumpers, Herding and Endurance competitions, and occasionally shows her dogs. Carole is also an accredited Tellington TTouch practitioner (Companion Animals).
Carole is also a member of the Holistic Animal Therapy Organisation Australia (HATO) and is an Australian Traditional Medicine Society (ATMS) accredited Naturopath who works with people, pets and livestock.
Carole’s animal "family” includes dogs, cats, birds, poultry, horses, donkeys, cattle & rabbits.
Carole has a special interest in using natural therapies to improve behaviour and performance in animals. |
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Judy Attwater
Senior Instructor
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Judy
has been training dogs since 1966 and currently competes in obedience,
agility, jumpers, tracking, endurance, herding and conformation with
her German Shepherd Dogs. She has an
RNSWCC obedience Instructor’s Certificate and has been instructing
obedience and agility classes for the Grafton Dog Obedience Club Inc
for over 10 years and Agility for the Clarence District Kennel Club
Inc since 2003.
Judy’s
3 most recent German Shepherds are:
Dual Ch
(T) Tristania
Derniere Nee CDX, AD, JD, HT, ET
Aust Ch
Tristania Emelyne
CD, AD, JD, TDX, HSAs, ET
Aust Ch
Tristania Fionuir
Aodh TD, PT, ET (Fion
began her Agility training this year)
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personal highlight for Judy was to be presented with an Outstanding
Achievement Award in 2006 by The German Shepherd Dog League Inc for
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Ron Williams
Senior Instructor
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Whilst growing up in Crows Nest Sydney my family always had a pet dog.
I acquired my first dog Oscar an Australian Cattle dog when I was
about 10 years of age a friend Ray Skews had the mother. Oscar was
very loyal and extremely protective of me, he wouldn’t let anyone
touch me. He even nipped Mary a couple of times when we were courting.
He was the family watchdog and was excellent with small children, when
my sister married and lived with us even though he was at least 7
years of age he was great with my nephew and niece. I lost him to old
age when he was 14 years.
When Mary and I married I moved to Ulmarra and we
didn’t get another dog until we moved into our own home in South
Grafton. As Mary has told our first dog was a French bulldog Beau. We
had French bulldogs for 23 years and then after much heartbreak
changed to Border Terriers. Although Mary does a lot of the training
all our dogs are registered in both our names. I was there to show and
trial sometimes, when needed. Mary and Beau failed 18 Novice Obedience
Trials, then I took him in and he achieved his first pass, followed
quickly by 2 more and gained his CD Most of the time when going to
shows I have been the Roadie, there to accompany, drive and help.
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see Ron's full profile |
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Mary Williams
Senior Instructor
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As I reflect it is evident I have lived in a household
where there were dogs almost all
my life. The breeds I have owned have usually been a minority breed
and I have loved
them. I didn’t own my own dog until 1975 after our marriage when we
bought our
first French Bulldog Diwali Beau Pierre, fondly known as Beau.
We had moved into our own home and decided it was time to have a dog.
I went
searching for a British Bulldog and acquired a French Bulldog puppy. I
bought Beau as
a pet. When I visited the local Pet Store for supplies Dianne Bremner
(the proprietor)
invited me to bring my puppy to Obedience classes and to show him. We
joined
GDOC and began Obedience classes, our instructor was Barry King. We
also joined
Clarence Kennel Club and became involved in breed showing.
Click here to see Mary's full profile |
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Yvonne Busslinger
Instructor
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Yvonne grew up on a
dairy farm in Switzerland. Besides cows there were lots of other four
legged friends including horses, dogs, cats, rabbits and pigs and she
loved them all. Yvonne moved to Australia in 1991. She has one year
experience in "Schutzhund" training (overseas) and a certificate in
"Pet Obedience Training" with Cengage Education.
Yvonne is an active member of the
Grafton Dog Obedience Club and has been training dogs since 2005. Her
special areas of interest are with horses and animal welfare.
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Jenny Byrnes
Instructor
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Jenny has
been a member of the Grafton Dog obedience Club for over ten years.
During that time she gained experience handling and training her own
Border Collies. She has been an instructor with the club since 2007.
Jenny's philosophy is that you "never stop learning" and is always
keen to learn more which is evident by her interest and attendance
in various workshops (e.g. herding clinics). Prior to joining the
GDOC, Jenny had not experienced positive reinforcement training. She
believes that this approach produces better results as the dogs are
extremely keen to perform for you. Jenny particularly enjoys
teaching beginning handlers and watching their dogs progress from
unmanageable to lovely companion dogs.
Jenny has also had experience
trialling her dogs in Obedience and Tracking. Her Border Collie,
Zeke, has attained his Tracking Championship Title, two
qualifications in Novice Obedience and his Herding Instinct Pass.
Pebbles, another Border Collie, has also attained her Herding
Instinct Pass, Tracking Dog and Community Companion Dog Titles.
Jenny is currently working with Pebbles towards her Tracking Dog
Excellent and Companion Dog Titles. |
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This page was last updated on
Wednesday April 13, 2011 |
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