Kim Boyes

Founder/Owner of Hyper Hounds

Monday evening, Tuesday-Friday daytime Agility instructor 

Kim Boyes has been teaching group and private lessons for over 20 years. Her methods are based on proven positive training techniques by the world's top trainers and behaviourists. Kim strongly believes in continuing education and has attended seminars and clinics from some of the best in the training industry. Kim attends a minimum of three seminars a year to keep her skills current and provide the most up to date methods for her students. She has had the privilege of learning from many talented trainers such as Justine Davenport, Jessica Patterson, Wendy Willemse, Kathy Keats, Aaron Froude, Thomas Traj, Enya Habel, Dave Munnings, Ian Dunbar, Marcy Mantell, Pat Miller, Janice Gunn, Sue Ailsby, Sarah Stremming and many more.

Kim was a CARO rally obedience judge and CWAGS scent detection judge for 10 years, and is currently a CGN evaluator. Kim's dogs have earned over 150 titles in six different sports and have been ranked in the top ten multiple times on the regional and national level. Kim has also had the privilege of representing Canada four times at international Agility events.

Kim started in dog sports with an American Eskimo and a Labrador Retriever. She now competes with three Shetland Sheepdogs, a Border Collie and she has a working English Cocker Spaniel in training.

Accomplishments:

• 2014, 2018, 2019 CKC FCI Agility World Team Member (a small and medium dog for 2018 & 2019)
• 2022 CKC Agility European Open team member (small)
• Winner of the small and medium division at the 2019 AWC/EO Try Outs
• Highest scoring overall dog of 2019 AAC Agility Regional Championships
• 3 time AAC National Agility Champion (2010, 2015, 2017)
• 5 time AAC Regional Agility Champion (2012 Alberta, 2016 BC, 2017, 2018, 2019 Alberta)
• CKC Top Dog award for a Multi Discipline dog for 2018
• Ranked in the top ten agility dogs in Canada for CKC from 2011-2016, 2018
• Achieved Agility Championship titles in CKC, AAC and UKI on multiple dogs 
• Achieved Rally Obedience Championship and Master Obedience Championship in CKC
• 2008 #1 APDT Rally Obedience Dog in Canada
• Perfect score of 200 in formal obedience
• Multiple High in Trial wins in formal obedience
• DogSafe Canine First aid course

Amie Barnes, RVT KPA-CTP

Tuesday & Wednesday Puppy Kindergarten, Pet Manners classes, 

Scent Detection instructor

Amie Barnes been training dogs since 2003. She began training dogs as part of the Animal Health Technology (AHT) program at Olds College. While completing the AHT program, Amie fell in love with Wrecks, a large mix breed rescue in the program with dog reactivity and separation anxiety issues. Working through his issues got her hooked on positive dog training and dogs with special needs. Wrecks was also Amie's first competition dog, participating in agility and rally obedience. Amie's next dog, Ousa, a Golden Retriever, came into her life when Wrecks was retired due to hip dysplasia. Amie and Ousa competed in AAC and CKC agility, and CARO, APDT and CKC Rally Obedience. Amie now shares her life with Juno, a rescue Shetland Sheepdog, who came with many behavioural issues that Amie worked through in their first year together. Juno is now training in agility, rally obedience and nosework. Juno is currently competing in CWAGS, SDDA and UKC Nosework as well as CWAGS Obedience and CARO Rally Obedience.  A second Shetland Sheepdog has recently joined her family, Seeker, who will be trained for "all the sports" as he grows up!

Amie also shares a passion for education and has completed the well known Karen Pryor Academy for Dog Trainers and she is an Animal Health Technologist. She has attended numerous workshops and seminars by world renowned trainers such as: Kathy Sdao, Sue Ailsby, Dr. Karen Overall, Susan Garrett, Emma Parsons, Sophia Yin, Brenda Aloff and many more. Amie is also a Fenzi Dog Sport junkie and is often enrolled in multiple online courses at any time.

Accomplishments:

• Top 10 APDT Rally Obedience dog in 2008
• 3 time AAC National Championship qualifier
• Multi High in Class awards in CKC Rally Obedience
• Multiple High in Class wins in SDDA nosework

Kelly Ladouceur

Monday Scent Detection Instructor

Kelly Ladouceur has been involved in dog sports for more than 20 years. She breeds and competes with American Cocker Spaniels in a number of activities, including conformation, rally, obedience, scent detection, scent hurdle, trick training and therapy work. She has been involved with scent detection since attending one of the first seminars offered in Alberta six years ago. She took part in the first scent detection trial in Alberta (held through the Sporting Detection Dog Association - SDDA) and has continued to attend, as well as organize, scent detection competitions across the province. She is a CKC, AKC and C-WAGS scent detection judge, as well as a pending SDDA judge. Her Cocker Spaniel Jack Jack was the first of his breed to earn Started, Advanced and Excellent scent detection titles through the SDDA. She has assisted with teaching scent detection classes at various levels, as well as teaching rally obedience and CGN classes, and is looking forward to introducing you and your dog to the fun game of scent detection!

Accomplishments:

• #3 Cocker Spaniel in CKC Obedience – 2017
• In the top 5 Cocker Spaniels for CKC Rally Obedience – 2011-2013, 2016, 2018
• First Cocker Spaniel to earn a CKC Rally Master title
• First Cocker Spaniel to earn the following SDDA titles – SD-S, SD-A and SD-E
• First Cocker Spaniel to earn a CKC Scent Detection Novice title
• Do More With Your Dog trick titles – Novice, Intermediate, Advanced and Excellent
• AKC Trick Dog Titles – Novice, Intermediate, Performer
• Specialty High In Trial Winner – AKC Obedience
• Multi High In Class Winner – CKC and AKC obedience and rally obedience

Paula Collins, CPDT-KA

Jump Grids classes, K9 Tricks, and "Get in the Game" Instructor 

Paula Collins started teaching group classes 25 years ago. She is a CPDT-KA (Certified Professional Dog Trainer – Knowledge Assessed) using scientifically based positive training techniques that have origins in the field of Marine Mammal training. Continuing education is a big part of not only maintaining a CPDT-KA certification but also a personal passion. Paula attends positive dog training conferences and seminars with presenters including Dave Munnings, Kim Collins, Tomas Traj, Dave Munnings, Anthony Clarke, Global Judging Program, Sarah Stremming, Nicole Wilde, Ken Ramirez, Michele Pouliot, Kathy Sdao, Terry Ryan, Jesus Rosales-Ruiz, Susa Ailsby, Susan Garrett and more. Paula is also a Level 1 Tag Teach trainer (human training methodology) as well as an adult educator in her past life in the Safety Training field. Paula participates regularly in Fenzi online classes.

Paula is a FitPaws Master Trainers and is close to completing her CCFT (Certified Canine Fitness Coach) through the University of Tennessee.

Paula began competing with dogs in the 80’s with her Belgian Tervurens, followed by smaller mixed breed rescues and now is training her Border Collie puppy. Paula has competed and titled in AAC, UKI, USDAA and NADAC agility, APDT Rally-O, CARO Rally-O, Scenthurdle, CKC Obedience and Flyball. As well as participating with one of her Belgians in the St. John’s Ambulance Therapy Dog Program. Paula is the multiyear Manager of the WAO (World Agility Open) Team Canada.

Recently Paula has completed the Global Judging Level 2 Assessment program and earned the status of Affiliate Judge in the Global Judging Program. This is an International program to accredit Agility Judges to the highest level available in the world. This program focuses on elements such as Safety, Course Design, Judges Path, Accurate Calls and more. At this time there are only 4 Agility judges in Canada that have received accreditation with the Global Judging Program.

Paula is a member of the AAC JSAC (Judges Standing Advisory Committee) and is participating in projects to increase the level of education available to judges.

Accomplishments:

• Multiple years AAC Regional Champion and podium placements.
• Multiple years AAC National Podium placement.
• Multiple UKI Cup placements and UKI National Podium Placements.
• First 2 dogs in Canada to obtain the highest titles in APDT Rally-O.
• CARO Rally-O Excellent with Magnum Cum Lada designation.
• Global Judging Program Affiliate Judge
• AAC Masters Judge
• DogSafe Canine First Aid course

Bonnie Benson, DCBC

Sunday Puppy Kindergarten & Pet Manners Instructor

Bonnie's love of dog training all started when a little black tri Mini Australian Shepherd puppy pushed her way through her litter mates and claimed Bonnie as her person. Tia came home that day and changed Bonnie’s life forever. Five months after Tia joined the Benson's, the family grew by a little blue merle puppy named Zoe. Now their little pack was complete.

Knowing that her dogs loved to learn and with the desire to use only positive training methods, Bonnie enrolled in Rally Obedience and Flyball courses with a local positive trainer. As her dogs happily engaged and grew in this setting, Bonnie's desire to learn more about positive training methods lead her to enroll in the Dogma Certified Behaviour Consultant program. The Dogma program is a comprehensive dog training apprenticeship program that included over 400 hours of classroom theory, observation and class assistance. Topics included canine communications, learning theory, positive training methods, reactivity and aggression, Pet First Aid and more. Bonnie has since graduated from the program and is excited to share her passion for dog training with the pet parents of Calgary.

Bonnie has attended seminars in a number of different disciplines including agility (Kim Collins, Stephan Henry and Jessica Patterson), Frisbee (Marion Paulson, Kara and Shawn Bellingham) and Behaviour/Aggression in Dogs with Michael Shikashio and Trish McMillan Loehr.

Bonnie actively competes in Rally Obedience at the excellent level, Frisbee, Agility and Trick competitions

Accomplishments:

• Cynosport Rally 2108 – Ranked 7th (Zoe) and 10th (Tia) in Canada
• Cynosport Rally 2018 – Ranked Top 18 RL2 (Zoe)
• Do More With Your Dog (DMWYD) – Advanced Trick Titles
• Qualified to participate in the US at 2019 UpDif in Frisbee
• Twice have won the Indomitable Unicorn Award at Frisbee – given to the dog and handler that are considered impossible to subdue or defeat 
• DogSafe Canine First Aid Course

Laurie Albright

Thursday-Saturday Rally Obedience and Pet Manners instructor

Laurie Albright has been teaching, training and trialing for over 20 years. Combining solid science with common sense she's helped her students to reach their goals - whether competitive or 'daily living'! Competing with a variety of breeds herself (Dalmatians, Australian Shepherds and Cavalier King Charles Spaniels), she's learned to think 'outside the box' and adjust her training to meet the needs of the dog. Her motto is "it has to be fun for everyone"!

Laurie has titled dogs conformation, obedience, rally obedience, agility, scent hurdle racing and more. Laurie was a judge for CKC and CARO rally obedience for many years

Accomplishments:

• Multi High in Class and High in Trial wins for obedience and rally obedience

Andrea Norris

Sunday & Wednesday evening Agility Instructor

Andrea has always loved dogs and dog training ever since seeing the SuperDogs at the Calgary Stampede as a child. The passion grew with a job in the pet industry, then discovering dog sports and finally beginning to teach training classes for the past 5 years. During the past 10 years she’s gotten involved in the dog sport world, training in agility and nosework and dabbling in rally obedience and disc.

Andrea currently competes in AAC Agility. She started competing with Baxter, her now retired Tibetan Spaniel, proving you don’t need an “agility breed” to be successful! Andrea has trialed her veteran dogs to their Agility Championship titles (ATChC) and has had success competing on both Regional and National levels; winning Regionals multiple times with multiple dogs and placing 2nd at Nationals in 2013. 

Her two youngest dogs, Nike a Mini Aussie and Sizzle a Shetland Sheepdog are training and will start trialing soon.

Continuing education is very important to Andrea and she attends seminars and online lessons with Jessica Patterson, Marcy Mantel, Sarah Stremming and Daisy Peel among others. She also participates regularly in online classes and workshops with the Fenzi Dog Sport Academy.

Agility and positive, science based dog training has made such an amazing difference in her dogs’ lives. She is very excited to bring her skills and enthusiasm to Hyper Hounds to help show the kind of partnership you can have with your dog.

Accomplishments:

• 4 time winner of AAC Agility Regional Championships (2013, 2015, 2 dogs winning in 2016)
• 2nd place finish at AAC National Championships in 2013
• DogSafe Canine First Aid Course

Barbara Walmer

Thursday Competition Obedience Instructor

Barbara has been training dogs for over 25 years, ranging from working in a vet clinic to animal shelter work, to teaching group training classes and providing private behaviour consults. Barbara is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer, Knowledge and Skills Assessed (CPDT-KSA), a Certified Behaviour Consultant Canine Knowledge Assessed (CBCC-KA), an Associated Certified Dog Behaviour Consultant (ACDBC), a Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partner (KPA CTP), Fear Free Certified Practitioner, a Tellington TTouch Practitioner, Level 2, and a TAGteach Level 1.

Just as important as her training acumen is Barbara’s dedication to and skill working with human clients. Barbara believes the key to successful dog training is proper support of the humans who love the dogs. And so, Barbara has dedicated herself to developing teaching, coaching, and support skills to set our human clients up for maximum success.

Barbara can’t get enough of training, so her free time is largely spent training and competing with her own dogs. She has CKC Obedience Trial Championship titles on 5 dogs, earning over 30 High in Trials, and even a perfect 200 score. She and her dogs have also earned titles in field, rally, and agility. Barbara currently enjoys living with three Goldens, a Labrador, a Cornish Rex cat, and a Papillion, who rules the roost.

Accomplishments:

• OTCH (Obedience Champion title) on 5 different dogs
• Perfect score of 200 
• 30+ High in Trial wins
• DogSafe Canine First Aid Course

The Competition Obedience classes are assisted by:

Jennifer Richards

Jenny shares her love of and success in competition obedience with students in our competition obedience classes. They offer Barbara assistance during classes as needed, and occasionally may even teach a class for Barbara. Jenny has earned a CKC Obedience Trial Championship and is working towards earning her elusive High in Trial. Jenny thrives on helping our students accomplish their own goals, which is backed by her training as Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partners (KPA CTP).  

Donia Roorda KPA CTP

Private lessons for pet manners and behaviour modification

Donia Roorda is a Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partner (KPA CTP) as well as an International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants certified Trainer (IAABC). She’s also a certified Trick Dog Trainer!

She really values continuing education and participates in classes, seminars, conferences, workshops, webinars and more on an ongoing basis.

With her own dogs, Donia actively trains and competes in agility, obedience, tricks, rally, and nose work, and dabbles in tracking.

Sarah Novak

Tuesday Evening, Wednesday Morning, Thursday afternoon Agility Instructor

Katrina Challice-Sandbach

Saturday Agility Instructor

Katrina Sandbach’s love of dog training started 15 years ago when her Toy Manchester Terrier was deemed “untrainable” by a trainer at his puppy classes. That gave her the determination to prove that every dog is trainable and to learn about positive reinforcement based training to motivate him and build their relationship. She started taking agility, rally and competitive obedience classes with him, quickly getting hooked on competitive dog sports. 

Katrina loves to expand her knowledge base and continues to take multiple classes and seminars with top level agility competitors whenever possible.  To date Katrina has had the pleasure of working with Jessica Patterson, Teri O'Neill, Meaghan O'Neil, Karen Childs and other local talent. 

She has titled her dogs in agility, rally obedience, competitive obedience, nosework, earth dog, barn hunt and dockdiving over the years. 

Katrina’s experience with various dog breeds of different sizes and drive levels has taught her how to motivate different types of dogs. She now shares her home with a Border Collie, Shetland Sheepdog and a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever. Katrina’s two daughters are growing up to have a love for dog training as well and are now competing in agility. Sharing the journey with her daughters has made Katrina excited to share her knowledge and love of agility with others.

Maria Lupu

Monday and Saturday evening Pet Manners Instructor

Maria first started her career working with animals in emergency veterinary hospitals and veterinary oncology while going to university. She then worked as a Peace Officer investigating cases of animal abuse and neglect.

She is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer – Knowledge Assessed (CPDT-KA). She has two Master’s degrees, and is currently working on a third, this one in Clinical Animal Behaviour.

Maria runs a K9 Search and Rescue (K9 SAR) team with her 3 year old shelter rescue mix Cabella. Cabella has her International search and rescue qualification, and has been a SAR dog for over 2 years. Cabella also has her Expert Trick dog title, and enjoys scent work, and Rally Obedience.

Maria’s goal is to help people understand and care for their dogs emotional wellbeing, using science based, force free training, focusing on building a connection and relationship with their dog