Instructors

Lana Kline, IACP-CDT, has been operating and teaching through Paw & Hand Obedience since 2004, beginning with in-home training and small group pet classes in her yard.  Competition classes were added by request, classes moved to the house in the winter, to a small commercial space for several years, and at the current facility since 2015.  Lana is a Certified Dog Trainer through the International Association of Canine Professionals of which she has been a member for 18 years.  She is also an AKC Canine Good Citizen evaluator.  Over the years Lana has competed with seven of her own dogs, earning 56 obedience, 26 rally, 18 CGC, 8 tricks and 3 agility titles.  Working towards goals with our dogs, helps trainers learn to read dogs better, to communicate better, and to problem solve.  Lana currently lives with five dogs.  The senior is retired, Jet and Stevie are working and competing at the Utility level of obedience, Walt at the Open level of obedience, and Five, the five month old puppy, just finished his S.T.A.R. Puppy, is learning how to be a good citizen and learning competition puppy basic obedience skills.

Lana used to teach all of the classes, but the school has grown, and awesome long-term students are now teaching some of the classes.  As the owner and training director, Lana teaches the competition Novice, Open and Utility classes, Build Trust & Cooperation, Attention & Handling, some rally obedience classes, and when needed, assists with the evening STAR Puppy and Basic classes.  

Becky DeWire has been teaching at Paw & Hand Obedience since 2017.  Becky is an AKC Canine Good Citizen Evaluator and a member of the International Association of Canine Professionals.  She has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and brings her problem solving nature to her training and instruction.  Becky teaches STAR Puppy, Basic Obedience, Beyond Basic (CGC), Advanced Obedience (CGCA), Competition Puppy and Rally Obedience classes.  Becky also teaches private lessons.  Becky began training at Paw & Hand in 2014 with her 9-year-old Beagle mix, Ike.  Ike was the poster child for training an older dog!  Ike earned titles in AKC Rally and became a certified Therapy Dog.  Becky is currently training in AKC and CDSP Obedience and AKC Rally with her Brittanys, Pilot and Bounce.  Pilot earned his AKC CDX in 2025 and is also a Therapy Dog. 

Megan Stahlnecker  teaches our Thursday evening STAR Puppy and Basic classes.  She has almost 2 decades of experience owning and training multiple dogs and competing in various frisbee and disc competitions.  Megan currently owns, trains and competes with 5 border collies!  She is also a master at training tricks and offers a very fun, engaging and rewarding tricks class.  Megan has saved numerous dogs as she works with a regional border collie rescue and fosters and subsequently places a lot of dogs.  Megan is currently training 3 of her youngest border collies in competition obedience, as well as agility, and frisbee games.

Suzanne Hannan  has decades of experience of rescuing and rehabbing pit bulls.  As a result she has lots of training experience, but even more importantly, Suzanne has tons of natural instincts when training dogs.  Her current dogs include a malinois rescue and a malinois/am staff mix rescue.  Suzanne has done FastCat, Dock Diving and Toss & Fetch (frisbee) with her dogs, and is training both of her dogs in competition obedience.  The malinois rescue seems to really love the obedience training.   

Diane Bodle  has been training and competing in obedience, rally and agility for decades.  She taught agility at her home for years, and offers an Intro to Agility class at Paw & Hand a few times each year.  Diane co-teaches the Wednesday morning Novice competition class and is training her current dog, Willow for obedience, rally and agility.  Willow has competed in all three activities and earned titles in all three.  

Dyln Burkhart - started as a pet student in our STAR Puppy class, and with her Pembroke Welsh Corgi, Ivy, quickly switched to the competition classes.   Dyln helps with the Wednesday evening Novice class and sometimes helps with the beginning competition classes offered on Tuesday evenings.  Ivy is currently training and competing at the Open level of obedience and she has four rally titles so far and is working on her RAE (Rally Advanced Excellent).  Dyln recently acquired a new performance dog prospect, border collie puppy Ink.