Lisa Wasielewski
Owner and Head Trainer
Our Head Trainer and Owner, Lisa Wasielewski, has always been an animal lover. After training horses for 7 years, she entered the dog world by training her own service dog – a Standard Poodle named Odin. As an outlet for Odin, she began competing in dog sports, and she was hooked! Odin has 50 performance titles in a variety of sports including North American Sport Dog Association (NASDA), Barn Hunt, and scent work. He is the second dog ever to earn NASDA’s Supreme Versatility Champion title – Master Champion titles in all 5 of NASDA’s classes!
Lisa is CPDT-KA certified through the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers. She also is a Certified Sport Detection Trainer and Certified Canine Cognition Instructor through Ford-K9. Lisa is a judge for NASDA and UKC Elite Shed Dog Series. She is also the Vice President for the local UKC Nosework Club – West Coast Patterdale Club.
Hillary Nestlerode
Trainer
Our Experienced Trainer, Hillary Nestlerode, specializes in our Rat Sports, Obedience, and Rally classes and has been training dogs in everything from basic obedience, to service work, to scent sports! She regularly competes in a myriad of sports with her 2 Standard Poodles.
Hillary has years of experience teaching group obedience classes and doing behavior modification. She also was a professional pack dog walker for 8 years, making her fantastic at reading dog-dog body language and introducing dogs to each other.
Hillary’s Standard Poodle Zazu earned his narcotics detection certification at one year old! He also has over 40 performance titles at 3 years old.
Hillary is also a NASDA judge and a board member of the West Coast Patterdale Club.