Vapresto are able to offer agility training at all levels:
Ian Watts, BSc is a
qualified Agility Club Approved Instructor (since 1999) and is happy to run
agility classes and provide individual tuition, when able to fit them in around
his work commitments as a professional business
trainer for his own company - Achievers Consultancy &
Training Ltd - who sponsor the Vapresto agility dogs.
Ian also competed in the first 3 BSD World Championships, with Blitz, and was the founder, team selector, and primary organiser for the British team for the first 3 years - culminating in the GB squad winning both Team and Individual titles in Germany in 2005.
Ian is also available to judge at KC agility shows, and has been judging all grades and sizes of agility since completing the Agility Club workshop in 2003. Also, anyone who has watched agility at Crufts, Discover Dogs, or the Kennel Club International Agility Festival since 2006, may also have heard Ian as he is one of the ringside commentators.
Please contact Ian at ian@vapresto.com with any enquiries regarding training or judging
Amanda Cable, BA Hons, DipCABT. In 2005 Amanda passed her Advanced Diploma in Practical Aspects of Animal Behaviour and Training to enable her to effectively help pets with behaviour problems and enhance the relationship between people and their pets. The course covered for example; advanced emotionality, behaviour cognition and learning theory, human psychology, phobias, neurology and neuropharmacology and effects of diet on behaviour as well as investigating complex case histories.
She also has an intermediate award certificate in canine behaviour and training at the Centre of Applied Pet Ethology. She has successfully completed the 5-day foundation course in Intelligent Horsemanship (the only UK organisation fully endorsed by Monty Roberts —the ‘Horse Whisperer’) as recently featured on the BBC 2 programme "Race Country".
Please contact Amanda at amanda@vapresto.com with any enquiries regarding canine behaviour.
Both Ian and Amanda compete at Novice/Intermediate level in agility in the UK and abroad with their four Belgian Shepherds.