Instructors
Adele Yunck |  |
Adele began teaching obedience for the Ann Arbor Dog Training Club in 1987 while still working as a Software Engineer. She left the world of computers to start Northfield Dog Training in 1990. She teaches group classes and private lessons at her training facility in Ann Arbor. Her main passion is teaching competition obedience classes. She also teaches popular obedience seminars for clubs around the US. She is NDT's head obedience instructor. She also teaches rally and beginning field training for retrievers. Adele earned her first CD in 1986 on her little Austrlian Terrier Casey. Her dog's and titles:
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Denise Tarby |
Denise has been the head agility instructor at NDT since 1999. She has been certified to teach agility through the Julie Daniel’s Agility Instructor Certification program in 2003. To maintain a high level of knowledge of current techniques, she attends camps, private lessons, and seminars in agility, obedience, dog behavior, and field. Her training has included many of the top competitors in their respective dog sport. Denise started training in agility in 1996 with her English Springer Spaniel, Mojo. As a team they competed in AKC, USDAA, UKC, and NADAC, obtaining advanced or higher titles in all venues. Boomer, her golden, competed in CPE, AAC, and AKC. He earned his MX and MXJ before retiring from AKC. Her current agility dog is Trill, a Shetland sheepdog. They have competed in CPE, AAC, and AKC. In 2005 Trill qualified at the AAC regionals to go onto the Nationals. Trill and Denise are presently working towards their MACH in AKC. In addition to agility, Denise has competed in AKC obedience with her golden retrievers, Boomer and Jubi. They completed Jubi’s CD in three trials, averaging 196 points and first place each time. Both dogs have also earned Rally titles. In addition, Boomer completed his Utility Dog (UD) in the fall of 2009 in 5 trials. Boomer earned his WC in 2005, and finished his Junior Hunter (JH) in the fall of 2009. Boomer and Denise earned his TD (Tracking Dog) title in May 2011. In 2008, Trill starting training in herding. She went on to earn her HT in two trials. Denise has worked with a wide variety of breeds over the course of her agility teaching at NDT. She has helped individuals and their dogs to accomplish their personal goals in agility, including 5 AKC MACH dogs and 9 CPE C-ATCH dogs. |
Marcia Cavan |  |
Marcia Cavan has been actively training and competing with multiple breeds of dogs since 1980 when she completed the requirements for an AKC Companion Dog (CD) title on her first Pharaoh Hound, Rohirrm's Kestrel. Kestrel was one of the first of her breed to achieve this obedience title. Since then, Marcia has completed numerous obedience titles on 4 different Pharaoh Hounds along with a Whippet, a rescued mix breed, and a German Shepherd Dog.
Marcia and her Pharaoh Hound Bristol (Ch. Galadrial's Dream Weaver UD SC FCh CGC) became the first in her breed in AKC history to obtain a Utility Dog (UD) title. To this date, Bristol is still the only Pharaoh Hound with a UD. Marcia also competed at the 2001 World Series of Dog Obedience with her rescued mixed breed, Jazzabelle, who went on to get her UKC CDX and multiple agility titles. Jazz is retired from competition but still works as a demonstration dog for the PK classes Marcia teaches. Over the years Marcia has also competed and titled a number of dogs in many other areas of dog training including tracking, conformation, and has had multiple nationally ranked lure coursing dogs. Marcia currently is training in Schutzhund (tracking, obedience and protection ) with her German Shepherd, Navarre, (B'Navarre zu Treuen Händen BH JJ) and looks forward to many wonderful years competing with him in Schutzhund along with AKC obedience and agility. Navarre also completed his national Dock Dog Junior Jumper title. Marcia and Navarre also enjoy skijoring during the winter and have done some herding as well. Marcia has dogs certified as Therapy dogs that made frequent visits to local nursing homes and she very much enjoys helping people get off to a wonderful start with their puppies by teaching the Puppy Kindergarten classes. The CGC (Canine Good Citizen) class helps carry that training forward. |
Gail Dapogny |
Gail was Adele's first puppy class instructor in 1985. She was training director for the Ann Arbor Dog Training Club for 5 years and has taught everything from puppy kindergarten through Utility. She has put advanced obedience titles on her own Border Collies - most notably her OTCh. Nell TD - and a neighbor's Golden Retriever. Her current dog training passion is for sheep herding. She is a potter by trade and is a long-time member of the Ann Arbor Potter's Guild and the Clay Gallery.
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Raissa Hinman |
Raissa began her life in dogs with a mixed breed sled dog named Oreo, twenty-five years ago. She taught him to pull her on cross country skis. It was such wonderful fun that before too long, she added another sled dog to her household, an Alaskan Malamute, and the rest is their training history. As Cody, her second dog, was not a great pulling dog, she ended up showing him in obedience. That is how she came to meet Adele and Northfield Dog Training. For the last 15 years, she has been training her Malamutes at Northfield Dog training in Agility and Obedience. Between them they hold 3 MACHs, 3 UDXs, 1 UD and various other obedience and Rally titles. When they are not training obedience and agility, they are on the trail, on their sled, cart or scooter. They also like to occasionally compete in weight pull competitions.
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