Sue's Background in the World of Dogs
Sue and Giddy
WTChamp Bintibn Trick
of Fate CDX UDX WDX TDX
I have been training dogs professionally for over 38 years and to date have helped well over 15,000
owners to train their pets to be good companions.
I started Exning Dog Training Centre in 1986 and at the beginning of 2007 my dogs and I relocated to the
Lakenheath, Suffolk area.
The school is now known as the K9magic Dog Training Centre.
It is great that I often see people returning with a new puppy.. after training with us many years ago...
a great compliment that they choose to return to K9magic!
I have personally trained and handled virtually every breed of dog from a chihuahua to Gt
Danes and Wolfhounds, many dogs with 'problems', staying with me in my home for rehab.
My training methods are and always have been kind, simple, reward based and highly effective.
I use exactly the same techniques regardless of whether I am training a
companion dog or a top competition dog. ALL of my training is reward-based and always has been.
I was a member of the Institute of Professional Dog Trainers from 1990 - 2009**
I still regularly attend courses in all aspects of dog training, and work my own dogs in competitions,when time allows.
** I have always made the choice to work my dogs, train, instruct
and pass on knowledge learned by experience rather than the current fast-track fashion of internet qualifications or paying to join trade bodies in order to display the trade organisations letters after my name or on the website. There is no substitute for experience.
COMPETITIVE HIGHLIGHTS TO DATE
Over the past 40 years I and my dogs have competed with consistent and continuous success in
Working Trials, Obedience, Heelwork to Music and Canine
Freestyle. We have also on occasion tried our hand/paws at breed showing,
Agility and Gundog scurries with equal success. In the course of those 35years
I have owned, trained and worked 3 German Shepherds, 7 Border Collies and a
Foxhound x Jack Russell! To date we have won well over 3000 awards in hard fought working competitions.
Highlights have been
Being invited to the prestigious International Super dog of the Year 6 times with 3 different dogs.
Achieving 2 wins, 2 times runner-up, 3rd and 4th in the above elite competition
Qualifying Tracker Dog Excellent over 100 times with 3 different dogs
Winning 5 Tracking Championship Certificates and 8 Reserve Championship CC's Certificates
with 3 different dogs
Attending the Kennel Club W/T Championships 5 times
Invited to Tracker dog of the year with 2 dogs
Training 3 dogs up to dual championship level [Trials and Obedience]:
Working test C [highest level Obedience competitions] with 5 dogs/bitches -3 different breeds
Winning the annual Pedigree chum canine musical freestyle at Coventry with my
Working Trials Champion Giddy
Performing Musical Freestyle at Crufts in 2003 also with Giddy - the only Working Trial champion ever to have achieved this.
We have appeared on BBC, ITV , Radio Suffolk, Radio Cambridge.
I have also judged at all levels in Obedience, Heelwork to Music, Freesyle and Working Trials.
DOGS PAST ...........
SHIRES HOTDOG CDX [Muttley]. Foxhound x D. 1980-1983. Worked A&B Obedience. Winner in Obedience, Trials and Agility.
BOSSANOVA BEL SHOSHUANNA CDX UDX WDX [Bara] GSD. B 1982 -1994. Worked Champ C Obedience.Prolific winner in Obedience& Trials
FLEETWOOD MAC CDX UDX WDX TDX [Gabby] Working Sheepdog, D. 1984-2000. 1 CC, 3 RES.CC's [Working Trials], Worked Obedience Champ C, Superdog of the Year 1995, Runner-up 1993,1994.
SHOBARA SHINING EXAMPLE CDX UDX WDX,[Cougar]GSD D, 1986-1999. Obedience test B winner and worked Test C. winner in Working Trials &Obedience.
TRICK OF THE LIGHT, CDX UDX WDX TDX [Blitz] Working Sheepdog B. 1992-2006. 1.CC, 3 RES CC's [Working Trials]. Worked Obedience Test C. Superdog of the Year - placed twice 1997,1998.
The Great - WORKING TRIALS CHAMPION BINTIBN TRICK OF FATE CDX UDX WDX TDX [Giddy] Border Collie. Dog. 1996-2005 3 CC's, 2 reserve CC's.[Working Trials]. Worked Obedience Test C Only, Heelwork to Music - many wins - worked Intermediate. Superdog of the Year 2004.
Giddy is pictured Above.
TRICK OR TREAT. CDX UDX WD [op].NOV F/S EX [Gus] Border Collie. Born 2002 - 2018. Gus was Giddy's son and the image of his dad. He inherited his superb temperament and working ability. Due to personal circumstances Gus did very little in the way of competitions. However, he was very successful in everything attempted. He has won Working trials at Open and Championship levels and has been very successful in Heelwork to music and Canine Freestyle. At his first 2 shows he had 2 wins & 2 x 2nds qualifying up to Intermediate level in just one weekend!
Sadly Gus started going deaf at around the age of 5. By the time he was 10 he was stone deaf.
We continued to work together - and adapted to using the hand signals which he had fortunately learned along with verbal commands, when he was a puppy.
Gus appeared at Crufts a number of times demonstrating Heelwork to Music.
I lost Gus in the summer of 2018 at the grand age of 16. We miss him so much.
DOGS PRESENT
TRICK OF THE TRADE. [Dessie]. Born 2006. Dessie is a stunning blue merle working sheepdog. He is pictured on the Behaviour Clinic page. He has not been an easy boy to train. He has never been entered in Open competitionS. Dessie has been trained for Obedience, Tracking, Working Trials, Agility as well as Heelwork to Music and Freestyle. He has successfully had a go at Dock jumping and water retrieve - gundog work , Rally Obedience and Flyball- he has even taken Best in show in the showring!
Dessie is now stone deaf and has severe arthritis, however still enjoying life.
Hattie, STARDELL ALYA CDX UDX WDX TDX, Nov Obed Ex. Born 2008. Hattie is trained for Working Trials, Obedience and Heelwork to Music/Freestyle and enjoys everything! She has already been very successful in Working Trials qualifying with over 96% at every level. Placing 1st x6, 2nd x2, 3rd x1. April 2013 Hattie qualified for the Championship Tracker dog Stake, due to commitments Hattie has only been lightly trialed. However she has qualified Tracker dog excellent several times with very high percentage marks and has been placed at Championship level. We occasionally enter Open Obedience competitions where she is consistently placed in Test A and Test B.
Sadly Hattie was diagnosed with Lymphoma in June 2020. The connection we have built through training and working together has helped keep Hattie going, and she is still enjoying life 9 month after diagnosis although she has to have steroids and antibiotics daily.
New boy on the block. Our new 'gang member' Riff. Stardell Hektor. Born end of December 2017. Showing promise for Trials, Obedience and Freestyle. Riff gained his Kennel Club Bronze and Silver Award at 5 months old. He gained his gold award at 12 months. Early 2020 Riff made his debut in Working Trials qualifying CD ex with 3rd place at his first trial. A month later qualifying UD open certificate of merit with 100%. Of course along has come COVID and everything is on hold or this dynamic little dog To keep occupied he has started Hoops and has gained his Bronze Award. In the UK Tracking organisation he has taken and passed Basic and Novice tracking qualifications. Now we are having a go at agility. Such a fun boy!
Suzanna
email k9magic@btinternet.com
Tel 01842 861189
07836 624684
owners to train their pets to be good companions.
I started Exning Dog Training Centre in 1986 and at the beginning of 2007 my dogs and I relocated to the
Lakenheath, Suffolk area.
The school is now known as the K9magic Dog Training Centre.
It is great that I often see people returning with a new puppy.. after training with us many years ago...
a great compliment that they choose to return to K9magic!
I have personally trained and handled virtually every breed of dog from a chihuahua to Gt
Danes and Wolfhounds, many dogs with 'problems', staying with me in my home for rehab.
My training methods are and always have been kind, simple, reward based and highly effective.
I use exactly the same techniques regardless of whether I am training a
companion dog or a top competition dog. ALL of my training is reward-based and always has been.
I was a member of the Institute of Professional Dog Trainers from 1990 - 2009**
I still regularly attend courses in all aspects of dog training, and work my own dogs in competitions,when time allows.
** I have always made the choice to work my dogs, train, instruct
and pass on knowledge learned by experience rather than the current fast-track fashion of internet qualifications or paying to join trade bodies in order to display the trade organisations letters after my name or on the website. There is no substitute for experience.
COMPETITIVE HIGHLIGHTS TO DATE
Over the past 40 years I and my dogs have competed with consistent and continuous success in
Working Trials, Obedience, Heelwork to Music and Canine
Freestyle. We have also on occasion tried our hand/paws at breed showing,
Agility and Gundog scurries with equal success. In the course of those 35years
I have owned, trained and worked 3 German Shepherds, 7 Border Collies and a
Foxhound x Jack Russell! To date we have won well over 3000 awards in hard fought working competitions.
Highlights have been
Being invited to the prestigious International Super dog of the Year 6 times with 3 different dogs.
Achieving 2 wins, 2 times runner-up, 3rd and 4th in the above elite competition
Qualifying Tracker Dog Excellent over 100 times with 3 different dogs
Winning 5 Tracking Championship Certificates and 8 Reserve Championship CC's Certificates
with 3 different dogs
Attending the Kennel Club W/T Championships 5 times
Invited to Tracker dog of the year with 2 dogs
Training 3 dogs up to dual championship level [Trials and Obedience]:
Working test C [highest level Obedience competitions] with 5 dogs/bitches -3 different breeds
Winning the annual Pedigree chum canine musical freestyle at Coventry with my
Working Trials Champion Giddy
Performing Musical Freestyle at Crufts in 2003 also with Giddy - the only Working Trial champion ever to have achieved this.
We have appeared on BBC, ITV , Radio Suffolk, Radio Cambridge.
I have also judged at all levels in Obedience, Heelwork to Music, Freesyle and Working Trials.
DOGS PAST ...........
SHIRES HOTDOG CDX [Muttley]. Foxhound x D. 1980-1983. Worked A&B Obedience. Winner in Obedience, Trials and Agility.
BOSSANOVA BEL SHOSHUANNA CDX UDX WDX [Bara] GSD. B 1982 -1994. Worked Champ C Obedience.Prolific winner in Obedience& Trials
FLEETWOOD MAC CDX UDX WDX TDX [Gabby] Working Sheepdog, D. 1984-2000. 1 CC, 3 RES.CC's [Working Trials], Worked Obedience Champ C, Superdog of the Year 1995, Runner-up 1993,1994.
SHOBARA SHINING EXAMPLE CDX UDX WDX,[Cougar]GSD D, 1986-1999. Obedience test B winner and worked Test C. winner in Working Trials &Obedience.
TRICK OF THE LIGHT, CDX UDX WDX TDX [Blitz] Working Sheepdog B. 1992-2006. 1.CC, 3 RES CC's [Working Trials]. Worked Obedience Test C. Superdog of the Year - placed twice 1997,1998.
The Great - WORKING TRIALS CHAMPION BINTIBN TRICK OF FATE CDX UDX WDX TDX [Giddy] Border Collie. Dog. 1996-2005 3 CC's, 2 reserve CC's.[Working Trials]. Worked Obedience Test C Only, Heelwork to Music - many wins - worked Intermediate. Superdog of the Year 2004.
Giddy is pictured Above.
TRICK OR TREAT. CDX UDX WD [op].NOV F/S EX [Gus] Border Collie. Born 2002 - 2018. Gus was Giddy's son and the image of his dad. He inherited his superb temperament and working ability. Due to personal circumstances Gus did very little in the way of competitions. However, he was very successful in everything attempted. He has won Working trials at Open and Championship levels and has been very successful in Heelwork to music and Canine Freestyle. At his first 2 shows he had 2 wins & 2 x 2nds qualifying up to Intermediate level in just one weekend!
Sadly Gus started going deaf at around the age of 5. By the time he was 10 he was stone deaf.
We continued to work together - and adapted to using the hand signals which he had fortunately learned along with verbal commands, when he was a puppy.
Gus appeared at Crufts a number of times demonstrating Heelwork to Music.
I lost Gus in the summer of 2018 at the grand age of 16. We miss him so much.
DOGS PRESENT
TRICK OF THE TRADE. [Dessie]. Born 2006. Dessie is a stunning blue merle working sheepdog. He is pictured on the Behaviour Clinic page. He has not been an easy boy to train. He has never been entered in Open competitionS. Dessie has been trained for Obedience, Tracking, Working Trials, Agility as well as Heelwork to Music and Freestyle. He has successfully had a go at Dock jumping and water retrieve - gundog work , Rally Obedience and Flyball- he has even taken Best in show in the showring!
Dessie is now stone deaf and has severe arthritis, however still enjoying life.
Hattie, STARDELL ALYA CDX UDX WDX TDX, Nov Obed Ex. Born 2008. Hattie is trained for Working Trials, Obedience and Heelwork to Music/Freestyle and enjoys everything! She has already been very successful in Working Trials qualifying with over 96% at every level. Placing 1st x6, 2nd x2, 3rd x1. April 2013 Hattie qualified for the Championship Tracker dog Stake, due to commitments Hattie has only been lightly trialed. However she has qualified Tracker dog excellent several times with very high percentage marks and has been placed at Championship level. We occasionally enter Open Obedience competitions where she is consistently placed in Test A and Test B.
Sadly Hattie was diagnosed with Lymphoma in June 2020. The connection we have built through training and working together has helped keep Hattie going, and she is still enjoying life 9 month after diagnosis although she has to have steroids and antibiotics daily.
New boy on the block. Our new 'gang member' Riff. Stardell Hektor. Born end of December 2017. Showing promise for Trials, Obedience and Freestyle. Riff gained his Kennel Club Bronze and Silver Award at 5 months old. He gained his gold award at 12 months. Early 2020 Riff made his debut in Working Trials qualifying CD ex with 3rd place at his first trial. A month later qualifying UD open certificate of merit with 100%. Of course along has come COVID and everything is on hold or this dynamic little dog To keep occupied he has started Hoops and has gained his Bronze Award. In the UK Tracking organisation he has taken and passed Basic and Novice tracking qualifications. Now we are having a go at agility. Such a fun boy!
Suzanna
email k9magic@btinternet.com
Tel 01842 861189
07836 624684
