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VIRGINIA BROITMAN / North Star Canines & Company

Virginia Broitman has been involved in dog training since 1981. Over the years, her business has provided counseling for behavioral problems, group classes, private lessons, occasional Service Dog training, and volunteer services for local humane organizations. Virginia is also the head trainer at two prison facilities where shelter dogs are placed with inmates for obedience training and are then adopted to the public. (For more details, please go to: www.sos-penpals.com)

Virginia presents clicker training workshops around the country and is a faculty member of Karen Pryor’s ClickerExpos. She also writes articles for a variety of training publications, and is currently part of the writing staff for Karen Pryor’s Academy for Dog Trainers program.

Her own dogs have participated in a variety of activities, including pet therapy visits, agility competitions, herding, and TV/advertising work. The current menagerie includes a Shepherd mix, two Min Pins, a Cattle Dog, a Papillon and several rats.

SHERRI LIPPMAN / Citizen Canine, Inc.

Sherri Lippman began her dog training career in 1970, raising German Shepherds for Seeing Eye. From there, she continued her canine education, working at several local obedience clubs and competing successfully in dog obedience trials. While earning degrees in Behavioral Psychology and Counseling, Sherri further expanded her dog training career by attending seminars, reading everything available about dogs and working with local dog training schools.

Sherri has been involved in Search & Rescue and Therapy Dog visits. She has also logged in many hours volunteering at animal shelters, helping to solve canine behavior problems and training older shelter dogs to make them more adoptable.

She is a member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers, and owns and operates Citizen Canine, Inc., which provides instruction and behavior counseling based on positive reinforcement techniques. She practices in the Central Virginia area, and offers group classes in Charlottesville. Sherri's two German Shepherds, Beauceron, cat, horses, and chickens all enjoy the benefits of clicker training.

Both Sherri and Virginia present clicker training workshops around the country and are faculty members of Karen Pryor’s Clicker Expos.

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