Karla has extensive experience working with pet dog owners in obedience, behavior modification, and puppy development. She also has experience training her personal and clients’ dogs for therapy dog certifications. Karla has trained dogs and their handlers for agility, scent detection, dog parkour, pulling, Rally, retrieval, and other fun activities. In addition to instructing dog owners and training dogs, Karla enjoys speaking to outside groups of adults and children about dog training, behavior, fun dog sports, and safety. Karla is also an evaluator for the AKC and can perform the American Kennel Club Canine Good Citizen Test, Trick dog testing, and Virtual Home manners. She has attended numerous training, behavior, and other dog-related conferences, seminars, and workshops.

Karla is originally from Elk River, MN. She attended UMD as a pre-vet before changing her direction to education and dog behavior. Karla and her husband, Eric, and many pets live in West Lakeland (aka Stillwater). Karla continues to stay active in competitive dog sports. Dog sports is her extreme hobby. She likes any sport that brings enjoyment and adventure to her team. She loves to learn about new activities she can do with her dog. Her current sport dog is a Belgian Tervuren (Shepherd), named Allies. Ally has trained in Mondioring, obedience, Rally, agility, tricks, manners, drafting and pulling, barn hunt, dock diving, and detection. A new puppy addition will be arriving Feb.