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Janet has worked with over 4000 dogs from more than 125 breeds, including such popular breeds as German Shepherd, Labrador Retriever, and Cocker Spaniel, less well-known breeds such as Bull Mastiff and English Setter, and rare breeds such as Catahoula Leopard Dog and Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever. Many of Best Behaved Dogs LLC' clients have come from a wide variety of mixes. The smallest dog Janet has worked with weighed about 2 pounds, and the largest over 170 pounds. She has worked with dogs as young as 5 weeks, and as old as 14 years. Additionally Janet has experience in competitive obedience, agility, weight pulling and rally.
Janet writes the “Ask Janet” column for the GRREAT News, a bimonthly newsletter published by Golden Retriever Rescue, Education and Training. Click here to read the latest issue.
Janet enjoys training her dogs to compete in obedience, agility, rally and weight pulling trials.
She has personally achieved the following titles and awards with her second rescued American Staffordshire Terrier, Ch Nippa-G’s Casanova (Ty):
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 UKC’s Agility Champion Excellent
- AKC’s Companion Dog
- AKC’s Rally Advanced
- UKC’s Rally Obedience Level 2
- AKC’s Novice Agility Preferred
- AKC’s Novice Jumper’s Preferred
- AKC’s Novice Fast Preferred
- First place in all 3 Novice Preferred agility classes at the 2009
American Stafford Terrier National Specialty
- Third place in Novice Obedience at the 2009 American Staffordshire
Terrier National Specialty
- Multiple High Combined awards in UKC agility
Janet and Ty are currently working toward additional UKC and AKC titles.
Janet has personally achieved the following titles and honors with Edes Pumi, a female Pumi, owned by Veronica Slajer and Jack Ferguson:
- UKC’s Grand Agility Champion
- UKC’s Companion Dog Excellent
- UKC’s Rally Obedience Level 2
- UKC’s Weight Puller
- AKC’s Companion Dog
- AKC’s Rally Advanced
- AKC’s Novice Agility Preferred
- AKC’s Novice Jumper’s Preferred
- AKC’s Canine Good Citizen.
- 4th Place at UKC’s 2007 All Star Agility Tournament in AGII, division 2.
- 2007 UKC All Star List, #50 in AGII
- 2008 UKC All Star List, #45 in AGI, #22 in AGII, #32 in AGIII
- Multiple High-in-Trial awards in UKC rally
- Multiple High Combined awards in UKC agility
- Multiple First Place awards in AKC rally
Janet and Pumi are currently working toward additional UKC and AKC titles.
She has personally achieved the following competitive titles with her first rescued American Staffordshire Terrier, Justice: 
- High Scoring Dog in an AKC Obedience Trial
- UKC’s Agility Champion
- UKC’s Weight Puller
- UKC’s Companion Dog
Excellent
- AKC’s Companion Dog Excellent
- AKC’s Novice Agility Preferred
- AKC’s Novice
Jumper Preferred
- AKC’s Rally Advanced
- AKC’s Canine Good Citizen
- IWPA’s Working Dog
- IWPA’s Working Dog Excellent
- IWPA’s Working Dog
Superior
- ATTS’s Temperament Test
- CCC’s Versatile Canine Companion Excellent.
- Nationally ranked in Front and Finish newspaper's various ranking systems from 2000 through 2005. In 2000 he was and the #2 High-in Trial AmStaff and the #3 Novice AmStaff.
- High Scoring American Pit Bull Terrier at the National American Pit Bull Terrier Association's 2002 National Specialty
- High Scoring American Pit Bull Terrier at the American Pit Bull Terrier Club of New England's 2002 Regional Specialty.
- High Scoring American Staffordshire Terrier at the Columbia Terrier Association's 2003 and 2004 Terrier Group specialties.
Janet was the editor of “Aggression Newsletter,” a national quarterly publication about dealing with aggressive domestic animals from 1999-2000.
In May 1996 she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, VA, with B.A.s in International Relations and French Language and Literature, and a B.S. in Business Administration.
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