Hi, I'm Dougal (an English Springer Spaniel) and I live with Christina who has had dogs for the last 20 years or so, mostly rescues apart from me and two other springers. I am now retired from competitive agility. Christina has seven dogs at the moment and they range in size from a Jack Russell to a Labrador cross with various ages, sizes and crosses in between, incuding four of us springers. Christina has been involved in agility for about nine years and has been competing for the last seven. She has been teaching agility for six years, judging at UKA for the last two, and is an Agility Club Approved Basic Instructor, a member of the KC Accreddited Instructor scheme working towards final assessment and a fully qualified instructor and assessor for the Acedemy of Dog Trainers and Behaviourists. Christina does lots of clicker training with us at home either agility exercises, canine freestyle moves or just tricks, (there are some fantastic books from the USA and New Zealand about clicker training for agility).

Hello, I'm Riot (a Border Collie) and I own Sue who has been involved in teaching pet obedience and agility for longer than she cares to remember. Sue has qualified Jack Russells to run in one of the agility classes at Crufts in three successive years with two different dogs. Sue is an Approved Agility Club Instructor and is a Master Dog Trainer with the Guild of Dog Trainers; she is also a member of the Kennel Club's scheme for Instructors working towards accreditation. Sue has lived with dogs for more than 35 years, many of them rescues. Consequently she has personal experience of many different breeds including a German Shepherd (made redundant by Her Majesty's Prison Service), a Greyhound (saved from being put to sleep after she was injured racing), a Lurcher, a Staffie cross (ex Dog's Trust), a Boxer and even a little Wirehaired Dachshund. Before you ask, she has managed to fit all these in because she is very old and has always lived with more than one dog at a time! Currently, in addition to me, Sue's canine family includes two Jack Russell Terriers (one rescued via the RSPCA), a Working Sheepdog (thrown out of his previous three homes before he was two years old), my cousin Zoot and Twirl who is a sable coloured Border Collie and the baby of the family.

Sue set up DRAT with Christina five years ago and together they ran classes on Mondays & Thursdays, teaching five groups each. Last year Sue had to have knee replacement surgery and she now teaches two groups a week just on Thursday evenings.