Sherry Kluever’s love for dogs began when she was a small child. She never had a pet growing up so would borrow her neighbor’s miniature poodle. She would take “Nanette” for walks and teach her tricks.
Sherry’s training philosophy is based on positive methods. She does not allow harsh training methods and encourages the use of clickers in her training. She has experience in training multiple breeds and has students of many different breeds from all the breed groups and many mixed breeds too. She is also very experienced with rescues (has two of her own!), dogs with motivational issues and the “over” motivated dogs.
Her biggest strength is the ability to PROBLEM SOLVE. She understands ALL types of dogs and can help build focus and motivation. She is not just able to help motivated dogs but dogs who need motivation as well. She evaluates each dog and handler as a team and assists accordingly. She teaches a mix of obstacle focus (distance) and handler focus.
Her positive methods of dog training have been proven in her accomplishments. She has a long list of them.
She was selected to the AKC (FCI) World Team as well as the IFCS World Team. She competed in France at the FCI World Championships but was unable to attend the IFCS event due to injury. She is a multiple USDAA and AKC Finalist and won the AKC Nationals International competition TWO years in a row! She also won a GOLD Medal at the ESPN Great Outdoor Games two years in a row as well as a Silver Medal.
Sherry has made it to final and semi-final rounds of National Agility Championships with her Border Collies and other two dogs (both rescues), a 26" jumping Mixed Breed (Sidney) and a Jack Russell Terrier (Frisco). She is experienced with both large and small dogs.
She has also competed in the Purina Incredible Dog Challenge.
Sherry has also trained, competed and titled in Obedience (where she earned all scores in the mid 190’s with her mixed Breed Sidney in UKC obedience and a 196 in her very first AKC Obedience trial with Ransom).
She has also competed heavily in Flyball where her Border Collie, mixed breed and Jack Russell earned their ONYXs.