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TCOTC welcomes new board member, names award winners
Jan Wagner joins board; Sara Brokaw and Christina Wessel recognized with awards TCOTC members elected Jan Wagner to the board of directors at the club's January 14 annual meeting. Jan and her four year old pug, Dobby, have been members of TCOTC since 2021, having...
Lisa Nawrocki named Agility Department Head
We are thrilled to announce that Lisa Nawrocki has been appointed TCOTC's Agility Department Head. We asked Lisa to introduce herself. She wrote: "I have been doing agility for about 10 years. I currently compete with 3 wonderful Papillons. I primarily compete in AKC...
TCOTC Well Represented at AKC National Agility Championships
Did you happen to catch the AKC Agility National Championships on ESPN2 on May 5? If you did, you might have seen some of TCOTC's agility instructors! A number of our staff qualified to compete in this exciting annual event, held in Perry, GA. Here is what they had to...
Junior handler Ava Gardner earns Agility Grand Championship
History was made at our March 1-3 AKC Agility Trial when TCOTC member Ava Gardner became the first junior handler in the country to earn an Agility Grand Championship (AGCH) with Öcho, a Swedish Vallhund owned by member Scott Chase. AKC created the AGCH title to...
2024 Board Candidates
Liz Danielson Liz became a member of TCOTC in 2021 with her dog Schroeder, who has taken obedience and agility classes at the club. Schroeder has also attended Camp K9. Liz currently volunteers on the Agility Setup Crew. She says her knowledge of change management,...
TCOTC Members Raise the Bar at NADAC Championships
TCOTC was well represented at this year's North American Dog Agility Council (NADAC) Championships, held October 5-8 at the Champions Center Arena in Springfield Ohio. Wayne Carlson and his Papillon ‘Paris’ earned 1st place in the Elite Veteran Dog Miniature Division...
TCOTC Agility Instructors Perform Well at UKI Midwest Festival
TCOTC Agility Instructors had a great showing at the UKI Midwest Festival at On the Run Canine Training Center in Ham Lake in September 2023. Sara Zislin and Christina Wessel’s team with Nova and Sole placed first in Relay along with their team mate Rene Hartmann and...
New Class: Game On!
Introducing Game On!, our newest class for dogs and handlers who are looking for fun and challenging games to play while reinforcing core obedience skills. This class uses skills like stay, recall, loose leash walking, go to your mat, sit and down into games such as...
Remembering Cathy Fuller
Mary Catherine "Cathy" Fuller, an early and long-time member of Twin Cities Obedience Training Club, passed away July 13 at age 93. Cathy trained her spaniels at TCOTC and, according to fellow member Eileen Bohn, she "taught classes, was trial secretary, checked...
Instructors earn CPDT credentials
TCOTC is thrilled to announce that Scott McKenzie and Vanessa Niemi recently earned CPDT-KA (Certified Professional Dog Trainer-Knowledge Assessed) credentials from the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers (CCPDT). Trainers who have earned CPDT-KA...