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Training Manager, Puppy & Obedience Instructor, CGC Evaluator
Michelle is certified in PetSaver® CPR, First Aid & Care.
Michelle is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer - Knowledge Assessed (CPDT-KA) and has been a part of the Gemini family since July 2011. She is also an AKC Canine Good Citizen (CGC) and S.T.A.R. Puppy Evaluator.
She has a Pit Bull named Liberty and a mini Dalmatian named Panda (CGC TKI RN BN TG3 TBAD). She also lives with a three-legged Husky named Juniper. Her dogs participate in Agility, Nose Work, Rally, Obedience, FastCAT, and Dock Diving. She has attended numerous seminars and training courses and likes to continuously acquire new dog training knowledge. She has fostered, trained, and placed nearly 100 dogs into forever homes.
She graduated with a B.A. in Human Ecology with a focus in Animal Behavior and her senior project was a published work on Canine Body Language and Safety. She also spent a year-and-a-half overseas, teaching English in South Korea and Vietnam. She takes her experience and love of teaching into the training classroom. She also fosters dogs for a rescue organization and has successfully placed over 75 dogs into forever homes.
Her favorite breeds are Pit Bulls, Papillons, and Boston Terriers. She says we couldn’t get rid of her even if we tried, because Gemini Dogs is truly her second family! (And believe me, we never would let her go anyway!)
She is the coordinator for all training operations at Gemini Dogs.
Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partner
Certified Professional Dog Trainer
Teacup Dog Agility Association Regional Master Judge
Head University Instructor
Sarah is an accomplished dog agility competitor (Neptune has earned his C-ATE2, C-ATCH4, & TACH4, Penny TACH and is now retired, Pearl TACH and C-ATCH and is now retired) and is a TDAA Regional Master Judge.
She graduated from Karen Pryor Academy in 2010 and completed the KPA Puppy Start Right course for instructors in 2015.
She is an experienced Dachshund breeder and raises her puppies using Puppy Culture, a special program of age-appropriate exercises, neurological stimulation, and training designed to maximize each puppy’s potential. Her puppies are not only outstanding family pets, but have gone on to achieve success in the performance ring and some have even become service dogs.
In addition to training and competition Sarah also enjoys going hiking with her dogs.
Sarah first took classes at Gemini Dogs with her mixed breed girl in the late 90's. She then adopted Jellybean and Penny in 2005, and they started in puppy class and basic obedience, then tried Earth Dog. That’s when Penny discovered agility. By 2006, Sarah was taking agility classes with the former owner of Gemini, Carolyn Barney. She later began substitute-instructing for Carolyn's classes. Sarah also began working in the doggie daycare before July of 2007.
Sarah completed her KPA class in 2010 with Carolyn as well. She then worked for Jean McCord and Kathy Austin at Dogs! in Hudson, and later taught some pet dog classes at the Fuzzy Dog in NH for a short time. She then worked for Crossbones Academy in Rhode Island teaching private lessons until January of 2020.
Sarah is a former Volunteer Firefighter has been a 911 dispatcher for over 20 years.
Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partner
Cara has been working with dogs professionally since 2003 in many capacities. From dog walker to groomer to holistic pet supply store owner to professional dog trainer.
Having competed in conformation, rally, barn hunt, nose work, fast CAT, CAT and agility Cara finds herself mosty immersed in the world of agility. She loves the complexity of the sport while at the same time watching people build connections with their dogs that they just wouldn’t in the “real world”. She spends 50 weekends a year trialing, many times hosting trials or volunteering with the numerous clubs she belongs to. She has attended 100’s of seminars on various training and pet care related topics as well as having instructed a few herself.
Cara started training her first Boxer in agility back in 2011 and while she tried trialing, trial stress got the better of her dog Artie. In 2013 she aquired a femal Boxer to help imrpove the health issues with her breed and while working on her conformation championship, she started to train her in agility just like Artie. Only Debbie thought agility was amazing and being in the ring excited her. From the start Cara and Debbie were unstoppable.
Here are some of their accomplishments:
- First Boxer ever to earn the agility grand championship and still remains the only one to this day
- Highest Prefered Master Agility Champion Boxer in history
- First Boxer to earn any premier class titles
- #3 AKC Top Preferred Dog Overall for 2021
- #1 AKC Preferred Working Group Dog 2020 & 2021
- #1 AKC Preferred Agility Boxer for 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021
- 2019 Finalist for AKC Agility Invitationals, placed 8th
- 2020 Finalist for AKC Agility Invitationals, placed 2nd
- Westminster Master Agility Competitor for 2019, 2020, 2021 & 2022 (2022 show happens on June 18, 2022 at the Lyndhurst Mansion in NY)
- National Agility Champion Qualified Competitor for 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 & 2022
- 2021 AKC Agility Premier Cup Competitor and qualifier
- #1 Preferred Working Group Dog 2020 & 2021
- #2 2020 Working Group for AKC Invitationals
- Placed several times at conformation specialties
Together they have written history. Debbie has also produced 2 litters with many titled offspring including 2 that Cara kept who have 7 Master Agility Championships between them. With all her dogs Cara has earned 17 Master Agility Championships, a conformation championship and over 200 titles on her dogs in various competitions as well as tricks and canine good citizen.
Cara’s passions are working with puppies, trial stress and agility prospects. From the recreational agility team to the competitive exhibitors, she loves to share the great sport and all the facets of training with each and every team.
She shares her life with 4 Boxers ranging in age from 9 years old to just one years old and a 15 year old cat who rules the house.
Certified Professional Dog Trainer
University Instructor & Rally Instructor
She also competes in AKC conformation events with the goal of earning his champion title. At this time they have accomplished many points and he is AKC major pointed. Wanting to continue his obedience training after CGC, they starting his rally career. At this time, they have earned his rally novice and intermediate titles. They also compete in AKC Fast Cat (FCAT) events.
Agility Instructor
Agility Instructor
Maureen McLatchy has been actively training and showing dogs since 1988. She originally started in obedience trials and later added conformation shows, hunting tests, field trials and rally with her multi generations of homebred Gordon Setters. She has put over 275 titles on her own dogs as well as over 100 on other people’s dogs.
In 2000 she began trialing in agility and that has been the main focus since as the dogs really loved the sport. She has put 18 Agility Championships in AKC and USDAA (MACH, PACH, ADCH, PDCH) on her Gordons Setters, Beaucerons, and a Papillon. Her dogs have also been multi-time finalists at the AKC Agility Invitational and Westminster and have many individual placements in rounds at AKC Nationals, Invitational and Westminster.
Maureen enjoys teaching agility and is very proud of her students and all of their accomplishments.