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Training

WNC K9 offers classes held at AGDL Training Center's 4800 sq. ft. indoor training space and private coaching sessions at your home or out and about (on the road).

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K9 Manners

WNC K9 is committed to providing you with the best progressive approach to training through our K9 Manners Levels Program. Your dog will develop good daily manners for all life stages. 

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Agility

Dog agility is a popular canine sport in which a handler attempt to navigate dogs through a course full of a variety of obstacles such as a tunnel, teeter-totter, board-walks, weave poles, and jumps. 

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K9 Wellness Through Sports was created to help develop healthy  habits through different sports for all dogs whatever the size, breed/mix, and temperament.

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Carolyn Bigley

Carolyn Bigley has been working and training with dogs since 1996. 

After graduation from college, she was volunteering in the swamps of Louisiana and found a beagle about to be lunch by a giant alligator. “Bayou” as he came to be named, was her first rescue. Bayou was a lovable but destructive, barking and unruly beagle pup, and Carolyn being fresh out of college had no money to formally train him. So she began interning with a local dog training company and the rest is history. 

 Since than Carolyn has volunteered with many rescue groups and served as Shelter Manger at Lake Tahoe Humane Society. She has owned two of her own pet sitting and dog training companies, Canine Home School in Charlotte, NC and Davis Islands Pet Care in Tampa, FL, and co-founded the 501c3 non-profit group Friends of Davis Islands Dog Parks. She has fostered and rehabbed many homeless dogs and owned 13 rescues of her own.

Carolyn recently moved to Asheville from Tampa with her husband, David, 2 teenage children, Abby and Owen, and her 2 canine rescues Pappy (4 year old Chihuahua/ Terrier mix) and Bodhi, (3 year old Border Collie).

Carolyn now enjoys spending her free time hiking, and working with her young, high energy dogs.  She started agility training with Gail Hubbard at A Good Dog’s Life last year and competes in agility. Loving this new world of canine sports, she has received multiple titles in Treibball, a new canine sport from Germany. Bodhi has recieved his Masters in Treibball and is competing in Novice in agility.  Pappy has received his Masters in Treibball and is competing in Excellent/Open in Agility.

What Carolyn loves most about working with dogs and dog owners is that they are all different. Even with her own dogs, what works for one, may not work at all for the other. She enjoys the challenge and diversity, but most of all loves to see owners really understand and connect with their canine companions. It’s not always easy, but it always rewarding.

 

Contact Carolyn at: Carolyn@wnck9.com

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  • K9 Manners - Basics thru Advanced
  • K9 Confidence Building and Conditioning
  • Dog Sports
  • Agility
  • Urban Herding - Treibball
  • K9 Scent Work
  • A Good K9 Camp (Board-n-Train)

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