About Tressia and Q-It Dog Training .

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About Tressia and the dogs that have inspired my life’s passion and goals.

A graduate from the Karen Pryor Academy and over 15 years of experience handling, training, and teaching dogs and owners, I can help you achieve your dog training goals today. Using positive reinforcement, science based learning, and force free training, to teach true understanding of behaviours. Learn, how your dog learns, and how to apply them to your training and yourself to become a better teacher for your dog.

2021 ! Sparks 20’’ Regular PEI/ New Brunswick Regional Champion and Jetta ! 12’’DDV Champion !

3 x BC Yukon Regional Champion 2006, 2007, 2019

Canadian Nation Champion 2012

Canadian Steeplechase National Champion 2019

AAC World team member 2016

Certified in Canine first aid through DOG SAFE.

A little bit about myself and the dogs I have had the pleasure of learning from.

Tressia grew up on Vancouver Island and has been involved in training dogs from the age of 12. I received a female chocolate lab named Sugar for Christmas, she was my first puppy and agility dog. Sugar brought me to Bernadette VanKlavern for agility classes and from there I was hooked. Bernadette drove my dog training passion forward, I can’t thank B enough for all she has done for me. Sugar became a 2x Regional agility champion in 2006 and 2007. At 12 she became the 2012 AAC Agility Canadian National champion.

Rumour, a 9 month old Bc mix from the Border collie rescue society was at an agility trial looking for his forever home. My mom said “did you see that puppy up for adoption” and so we brought him home that night. Rumour became an awesome agility dog, with time and patience he learned the world wasn’t scary and he turned into a fantastic agility partner, placing in the top 10 at regionals and nationals each year.

2009 my boyfriend Thomas and I adopted Rift, a 7 months old puppy from the SPCA. Rift was a reactive scared dog who barked and lunged at everything in his environment, he brought me new challenges I had not experienced with my previous dogs. So I signed him up for a 6 week obedience class at Best Paw Forward and 6 weeks later I was offered a dream job at BPF. I can’t thank Robyn enough for that job, I worked for Best Paw for the next 8 years and loved every day of it.

2012 I graduated from the Karen Pryor Academy and became a certified dog trainer with Rift as my demo dog. I was so inspired again with new knowledge and training games that I had to get myself a puppy.

Introducing Jetta a 14 week old Border collie puppy. Jetta was not what I was expecting to show up at the air port, she was nervous , not super social, and in general a scared dog. My relationship with Jetta started out rocky, she wasn’t what I had expected and many many many times I wanted to send her back to the breeder. I had dreams of being on an agility world team, and this puppy was about the complete opposite of everything that it would take to get onto the world stage. Jetta was afraid of sounds, moving things under her feet, and when she made a mistake she would shut down and leave work. Fast forward 3 years through tears, hard work and believing in my self as a trainer, Jetta and I found our selves applying for our first ever world agility team and heading to the 2015 AAC Agility Nationals to compete over 3 days for a win on spot for team Canada. We had the weekend of our dreams and placed 6th in Canada and won our selves a spot on the 2015-2016 AAC Canadian National team. Jetta has taught me to never give up on your dreams.

Introducing Sparks a red tri border collie. She was everything I asked for, confident, fearless, social, sweet, and ready for anything ! Sparks’s agility career has taken me on so many new adventures. But most recently she won the 2021 PEI/ New Brunswisk 20’’ Regular AAC Regional Championships.