CRDTC Instructors

Dianne Campos
    Dianne has been teaching CRDTC's puppy kindergarten classes since 2004. She's regularly judged at obedience matches for CRDTC and other local clubs.

    Dianne has put multiple advanced obedience titles on her dogs. She has shown in many venues including Field, Agility, as well as Rally and Obedience. She achieved a 3rd place National ranking with her Rottweiler Deaken in Novice competition, and a High-In-Trial win. Currently Dianne owns two dogs and she is waiting for her next competition dog.

    Dianne is a past President of CRDTC. She has worked in the Veterinary field for over 20 years.

Jane Young
    Jane teaches the Beginner and Advanced Beginners classes for CRDTC. She has been training dogs since 1996. Since April 2003 she has taught competition obedience, Rally O, and a children's dog class at a local dog training school. Additionally, she uses clicker based training to teach pet dog management in the homes of private clients. She has attended clicker seminars with Kathy Sdao and Leslie Nelson and bases her methods on a combination of techniques by Sdao, Nelson, Morgan Spector, Lana Mitchell, and Karen Pryor.

    With her own dogs, Jane has achieved 3 CDs, 3 CDXs, and a UD, including a High in Trial at a regional Toller Club specialty. She has also earned the Rally Excellent title. She has done dog therapy visits and completed the Pets and People Therapy Dog Excellent title. Jane has also been a regional director for the national Toller Club, finishing a six year term in 2005.

    Jane believes that dog training should be fun and successful for dog and handler. The clicker based method of training teaches dogs how to "do it right" rather than punishing a dog for "doing it wrong." With clicker based dog training, everybody wins.

    Jane has a bachelor's degree in secondary education and has taught courses in horticulture for both youngsters and adults. She runs the research greenhouses for Wheaton College.

Tracy Mulrenan

    Tracy is the instructor for the CRDTC competition classes. She's also presented some special workshops and holds summer training sessions for CRDTC.

    Tracy began teaching pet classes in 1991 and has worked with breeds from every group. She's taught puppy kindergarten and intermediate obedience as well as agility. She uses a clicker and loves to keep training upbeat and fast paced. Her philosophy is to keep training fun and never skip steps. She feels a great relationship and a solid foundation to build on are the keys to successful progressions in training.

    Tracy has attended numerous seminars, camps, and workshops, including the Cornell University session on Solving Canine Behavior Problems as well as an obedience training camp with Sylvia Bishop. She is a past board member of CRDTC, and has served as obedience chair for her breed club.

    Tracy began competitive training in 1999. To date she has put over 50 obedience and agility titles on her dogs and achieved national ranking in obedience with her Novice A dog. She competes in obedience and agility with her Boxer, UCD Belco's Back in Black CDX RA OA AXJ CGC, and Border Collie, UCD LE R Ewe Reddi? CD RN OA NAJ.

Pete Frykman

    Pete has taught rally obedience classes and workshops for Charles River DTC and other local clubs for several years. He also presents rally seminars. Pete has judged many rally matches and rally run-throughs. He's preparing to become a rally judge.

    Pete and his wife are puppy-raisers for a service dog organization. His current canine companion is a rescued yellow Labrador Retriever, Workmoor's Hopeful Lucy RN TD NA OAJ NF. Pete and Lucy are training in obedience, rally, and tracking.

Janice Ritter

    Janice teaches special competition courses and workshops for CRDTC. She's competed in both Schutzhund and AKC obedience with her German Shepherd dogs, achieving both the SchH1 and CDX titles.

    Janice has taught puppy kindergarten and beginner obedience classes for a local dog training school, and also worked with private clients. She's a co-founder and past-president of German Shepherd Rescue of New England.

Roseann Mandell

    Roseann teaches the Introduction to Tracking classes in June. She's attended Beginner and Advanced tracking workshops presented by numerous New England tracking judges. She is an experienced tracklayer and tracking test secretary as well as a past board member of CRDTC. Her current tracking dogs are Golden Retrievers Lindy TDX and Deasil TD. They are training for variable surface tracking and tracking excellent.


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