Bridget grew up on a farm here in Newville and although surrounded by all sorts of animals, it was her love of dogs that shaped her life. For 26 yrs. Bridget has been grooming dogs and the last 16 yrs. has owned her own business on the farm called Bridget’s Bow-wow Grooming.
Bridget started training dogs in the early 80’s; barely remembering the harsh pulling on the leash techniques and realizing that was not for her or her dog. It wasn’t until she found positive reinforcement training that Bridget truly became hooked! Since then, Bridget has trained and competed in numerous areas with great success: freestyle, herding, rally-obedience, agility, dog scents, tracking, disc dog, obedience, conformation, rally-free, barn hunt, and tricks. Her dogs, all Aussies, have titles in freestyle, agility, rally, rally-free, barn hunt, and tricks as well as Championships in freestyle (PDP/MF & PDP/HTM), rally (ARCHMX), rally-free (R-FE/CH) and tricks (TDCH). In 2002, Bridget began teaching dog classes. Since then she has taught classes in: freestyle, basic manners, intermediate, and advanced basic/CGC, rally, tricks, and rally-free. She has been an instructor at Dandy Dog Training (DDT) since 2009. Bridget became a CTDI (certified trick dog instructor) in 2011 and is honored as the first CTDI in the USA as “All-Star Trainer of the Year” in 2014. Her Aussies; Pixie, Parlor, and Truly, are trick dog champions! She also became a RFE-CI (certified Rally-FrEe Instructor) in 2012.
These days Bridget continues to teach, train and volunteer with her three Aussies