Instructors

Lana Kline, IACP-CDT (see: "About Lana")  Lana teaches the competition obedience classes at Paw & Hand, and is the owner and training director.

Lana has had dogs since she was teenager, and although she always had dogs, her original training/showing career started with horses.  She has now been formally training and competing with dogs for 20 years and teaching for 18.  Currently living with five dogs, including one senior, and one puppy, everyone is in training except the senior.  Lana has competed in AKC, UKC and CDSP obedience, AKC rally, and AKC agility.  She is also an AKC CGC evaluator, a professional member of the International Association of Canine Professionals, and is a Certified Dog Trainer through the IACP.  Training her dogs is the most fun, and helping others train is a close second. 

Becky Dewire currently teaches our Beyond Basic (CGC prep) and Advanced Basic (CGCA prep) classes, our daytime STAR Puppy and/or Basic, some of the rally obedience classes and is currently instructing the Competition Puppy classes.  and our rally obedience classes.  Becky is an AKC CGC evaluator. Becky began training with us in 2013 or 2014 with her then 8 or 9 year old beagle mix, Ike.  Ike was the poster child for training an older dog!  Ike seemed to love the training, learning, and spending the quality time with Becky.  He was delightful to watch.   Becky is currently training and competing in AKC and CDSP obedience and AKC rally with her brittanys Pilot and Bounce.   Pilot recently earned his AKC CDX. 

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 teaching 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.  

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.  

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.