Karen McLeod
Level 2 Trainer
Karen, co-owner of Cloud Nine K9 Sports, is a lifelong trainer, teacher and competitor in dog agility, rally and obedience. Her talent in canine communication has grown through the years and has led to many great relationships and resulted in various titles. Karen has a simple philosophy of building a relationship between dog and human partner. She prides herself on finding that unique solution for each partnership and passing problem solving approaches to her students in an easy to understand way. Karen values the personal side of training that helps the team build strong personal connections for the perfect companion dog.
Karen has coached several teams to their Championship level, in addition to her personal successes. Her experience began as a youth in 4H. She has kept connected to her roots by working with local 4H groups and encouraging members to train and compete with their dogs. Karen’s border collie, Cammie, started her competition journey at AKC Nationals at the age of 18 months in Rally Advanced. In 2018 Cammie became the pre-elite champ for large dogs in NADAC and has already qualified for Silver Stakes in 2019. Karen also shows her 3-year-old GSD and is starting her newest border collie in agility as well. She has been building human and canine partnerships for over 13 years and has had successful teams from 4H youth to adults, AKC to NADAC.