Joni Puckett
Joni Puckett is a retired schoolteacher. Her passion for dog training began in the 1970’s while attending classes with the Alamo Dog Obedience Club and German Shepherd Dog Club of San Antonio. She enjoys competing in obedience, rally, scent work and agility shows and earning titles on her dogs while making new friends along the way.
Joni has been giving private lessons from her farm for over 30 years. Her goal includes helping develop a strong owner/dog bond while ensuring positive communication, and providingtools to promote training for a lifetime of shared enjoyment.
Her Basic Manners classes will cover the basics such as: walk on a leash, sit, stay, come, down, stand for examination, meet a friendly stranger, don’t jump on me, and leave it alone. Joni also teaches & competes in Rally and Scent Work , a natural next level to continue to have fun & built a great bond with your dog after the Basic Manner 1 & 2 classes.
Joni is an AKC certified Canine Good Citizen instructor, and will teach required skills toward certification for CGC testing. She looks forward to meeting you and your pal.
Debbie Moore
Debbie has a passion to help people to have better a relationship with their dogs at home in every day life and in the dog sports of rally, competition obedience, scent work, agility and Fast CAT. Her dogs have also trained barn hunt and dock diving. She has achieved 30+ obedience & rally titles on 5 different breeds of dogs and 30+ AKC & USDAA Agility Championships & titles on Toy Poodles, Border Collies, Borderpap, Shelties, Silkies, Springer Spaniels and all-American dogs. Her toy poodle, April, was a three-time 8" AKC National Agility Champion. Toy Poodle, Raven, was the AKC 4" Performance Agility Champion. Her Toy Poodle, Louie is the first dog with the coveted AKC Agility Grand Championship in the San Antonio area. Her current dogs AGCH ADCH MACH Riot made the challengers round at the 2024 AKC National Agility Championships and Toy Poodle, MACH PACJ ADCH Hottie is working on his AKC AGCH. She has taught all the foundations skill on her daughter, Courtney Moore’s very successful Border Collies, Border-pap, Poodles and Chihuahua. Debbie is an AKC agility Judge & a retired middle school science teacher, she is the Alamo Dog Obedience Club Treasurer, the president for the Poodle Club of San Antonio, Bexar County Kennel Club Agility Trial Chairperson. She also instructs private lessons at her home training center in Spring Branch, Texas. She can be reached for agility, rally or competition obedience lessons at 210 378-4202. Text/call and leave a complete message.
Christine Meyers
Chris started training her first dog, Sheena in 2005 at some basic obedience classes. On completing those, she was looking for something else to build a stronger relationship with her dog and have some fun. A friend suggested trying agility and shall we say the rest is history. Chris began competing in agility in 2009 and they attained their first Novice title in 2010. To date she has 59 titles on 5 quite different rescues, trained as adult dogs with a variety of behaviors to overcome. Her fourth rescue, Larry, has been the most challenging by far, as well as the most rewarding. She is now competing at the Masters level in AKC and USDAA with both Larry and Bekkah, a border collie found at HEB in 2018. achieved the AKC Agility Grand Championship in 2023! Chris is an ACT evaluator, a member of Bexar Regional Agility Team, Bexar County Kennel Club, Alamo Dog Obedience Club, and the Poodle Club of San Antonio. She serves as Chief course builder for their agility trials and for other clubs in Austin and Bell County. Bekkah and Larry both have Advanced Trick Dog & Barn Hunt titles.
Lana Neukirch
Lana has owned Australian Shepherd’s since 2003 & started training in Agility with Katy, her first Aussie. Katy earned her first titles in 2004 in AKC, ASCA & NADAC. Katy also earned her MACH 3 titles in AKC & Lifetime Champion Bronze Achievement Award in USDAA. Her next Aussie, Raven her USDAA Lifetime Performance Silver Achievement Award plus 4 MACH’s & 2 PACH’s.
She is currently competing in Agility, Scent Work & Fastcat with Holly, her Miniature American Shepherd & Troi, her Australian Shepherd. Holly has earned 3 MACH’s & 2 PACH’s plus has earned her AKC SWM (Scent Work Masters) title & competes at the Detective level. She also competes in NACSWat the NW3 level. Troi has earned her MACH2 and is working towards her Grand Championship. She has also earned her SWE (Scent Work Excellent) title & is competing at the Master level.
Lana is a member of several clubs including: Alamo Dog Obedience Club; Poodle Club of San Antonio; Alamo Brittany Club; Alamo Area Toy Dog Club and is Treasurer of Bexar County Kennel Club.
Lana started teaching Advanced/Master Agility classes at ADOC in April, 2022 & then several of her agility students convinced her to start a Scent Work class in January, 2023. There are several openings in her Wednesday 10am Agility class and 11am Wednesday Scent Work classes. Your dog must already be on odor to join the class environment. Please contact her at (210) 844-8554 or email at neulan0507@gmail.com for more information.
Cindy Franks
As a child, I grew up with dogs: cocker, rough collie, dachshund, and poodle. They weren't really trained; just pets that lived outside. During a time of a serious family medical event, my sister bought a German shepherd puppy from the SPCA. He was the guardian of our home during my father's illness and then death. When he was 7 years old, my mother remarried and didn't want Roscoe. I took him where he went from backyard dog to condo dog. He was intact and aggressive so we started obedience classes. That started my lifetime of training, trialing, and loving my 4-footed children. I realized that I didn't want to just do 1 sport or venue so with the rescue of my 1st Australian Shepherd, Callie, I joined not just AKC but ASCA. Together we learned and trialed in obedience, agility and stock. The pattern has continued as I now have my 4th Aussie and my 2nd Sheltie.
Jay Cooper
Courtney Moore
Courtney Moore started training dogs as soon as she could walk. She put a CD obedience title on her toy Poodle, Mikey when she was 7 years old and convinced her mom, Debbie to start agility training after watching it in Houston. Before they knew it they were traveling all over Texas showing in agility and both mom and then daughter became AKC agility judges. Courtney is a very popular AKC, UKI & USDAA Agility Judge. She stays busy training & showing agility in 3 venues with her Border collie, Sahweet and world Champion Borderpap, Butter. She was vet tech but now teaches at Happy Dog Sports in Leander, Texas and is a popular seminar presenter for Alamo Dog Obedience Club. Courtney has a passion to help agility exhibitors improve their connection with their dogs.
Helen Rhodes
Helen Rhodes is a well know trainer and exhibitor who successfully shows and titles her Siberian Huskies and schipperke in both conformation, obedience, rally, Fast CAT and agility. She is fun to train with and enjoys helping student be successful with all different breeds of dogs. She is the Vice-President of Alamo Dog Obedience Club and is active in her national breed clubs.
Matt Palmieri
Matt Palmieri hails from California where he taught agility and judged USDAA and UKI agility. He has a passion for helping people train their puppies and beginner agility dogs. He enjoys training his German Shepards, Cattle Dogs and Border Collies in agility, rally, conformation, scent work, herding and Fast CAT. Matt owns his own Interior Design business and is the winner of the 2020 Parade of Homes. He is currently active showing in conformation and rally with his German Shepherd dog and rally with his Border Collie. Matt is fun to train with and his students have been very successful competing in agility and Scentwork.