In ‘91, ‘93, ‘95 and ‘96 she attended The Top Dog Training School Instructor Camps in the USA under the expert tutelage of Jack and Wendy Volhard (world renown dog trainers) and she was briskly escalated to Senior Instructor status at Cranbourne. She successfully competed in the Obedience Rings for five years. At the 1996 camp Katie watched Clicker Training being demonstrated for the first time and started to offer it to her clients as an alternative method of training in the summer of 1997. TV and in films. This was the first Dog Training School to offer a dedicated Clicker Training course in the UK. CFA dogs went on to appear in magazines, TV commercials, films and even on radio over the next ten years. This legacy continues at Scout Dog Training in the USA.
Katie Rourke Dowding entered the dog world in 1988 with a lurcher called Bryndle. By 1990 she was bitten by the training bug†and became an assistant instructor at Cranbourne Dog Training School.
Katie Rourke Dowding entered the dog world in 1988 with a lurcher called Bryndle. By 1990 she was bitten by the training bug†and became an assistant instructor at Cranbourne Dog Training School.
