Lorraine has been with the ABTA pack since 2001. She is in our Belleville Store in Eastern ONT. Lorraine is also seen at many Petcetera events and is in the store helping out as much as she can. She is a very dedicated trainer and a wonderful addition to our growing Canadian staff.
Lorraine has owned and shown dogs for more than 15 years and considers them a very wonderful part of her life. She is a breeder of Parson Russell Terriers, and the membership secretary of the Association of Parson Russell Terrier Fanciers (A.P.R.T.F.) Lorraine lives in Belleville Ontario Canada. She takes her dog Amber (shown in picture) to all of her classes at Petcetera where she demonstrates obedience. If you are ever in the area, please come and visit us.

Sarah Anderson:

Sarah has been with the ABTA pack since 1999. She teaches 5 to 7 obedience classes a week at three different stores, including advanced obedience with a focus on the Canine Good Citizen Test. Sarah is very active in training and enjoys doing volunteer training and fostering at local Los Angeles County shelters, as well as for several pure and mixed breed dog rescue groups. Her focus is on the dogs labeled "aggressive" or "unadoptable". By working with these dogs, Sarah gives them a chance at a second life. Some of the groups she works with include Boxer Rescue LA, Save the Dalmatians of Southern California, Noah's Bark, Animals Rule and Peninsula Pet League.
Sarah is accompanied by two demo dogs that follow her everywhere. Both her dogs are rescue dogs. Although Sarah has trained both her dogs to demo basic and advanced commands, they each have their own areas of specialization. Dakota, a five-year-old lab/GSP mix does Flyball demos and agility, while Dodger, a three-year-old boxer, specializes in trick seminars and socialization exercises with dog aggressive dogs.
Working out of the southern Los Angeles area has given Sarah many opportunities to do what she loves, train dogs and teach other people how to create and improve the bond between themselves and their pets.

Pam Wolf:

Pam has been with the ABTA pack since 1998. Pam's education includes a BS in biology from VA Tech with an emphasis on behavior and psychology. Her studies have included studying wolf behavior at Wolf Park, as well as attending seminars for herding, tracking, police and narcotics, conformation and other areas of dogs/training and instructing. She is currently a member of the National Association of Dog Obedience Instructors and has been a member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers. She is also an AKC Herding judge.

She has competed with dogs in many areas of training, including obedience competition, tracking, herding and agility. She has specialized in retraining dogs which have quit due to harsh training methods and working with behavior problems. She believes that a thorough understanding of training in various disciplines gives her a better understanding of what problems and challenges owners may face when training their own dogs.

Currently she is training her rough collie, Shady for competition in obedience, agility and hoping to move on soon to freestyle obedience. She is also starting to compete with her border collie, Dair in herding.