Meet your Instructors
Churmy
Churmy is the founder and owner of Flying Potatoes, and is a research scientist with a PhD in Neurosciences specializing in animal behaviour. She has over 10 years of dog training experience and actively competes in a variety of dog sports with over 40 performance titles in dog sports!
Churmy
Churmy is the founder and owner of Flying Potatoes, and is a research scientist with a PhD in Neurosciences specializing in animal behaviour.
Like many others, Churmy first enrolled in puppy classes with her first dog Bui Bui because he was so naughty! He wouldn’t listen, particularly when outdoors because everything was more exciting than her! She ventured into agility as a fun way to engage with her puppy and build a stronger relationship. From there, her passion for dog training grew. She became more involved in dog sports and began sharing her love for fun and positive training by teaching others.
Churmy has over 10 years of dog training experience and actively competes in a variety of dog sports. Together with her two Soft Coated Wheaten Terriers Bui Bui and Penny, they have so far earned over 40 performance titles in dog sports including agility, rally obedience, sprinters, and tricks! Her goal is to share my love for dog sports and training through fun, positive, and inclusive programs with the focus on building happier, healthier, and more confident dogs and people.
Sierra
While Sierra grew up with dogs, her love of training and behavior stem from helping her own dog Rusty work through his reactivity. She fosters dogs for Wag A Muffins and helps train and teach them to become the best dog they can be. Sierra is working on finishing her Dogma Dog Training certificate.
Sierra
While Sierra grew up with dogs, her love of training and behavior stem from helping her own dog Rusty work through his reactivity.
She has 3 dogs in her life right now. Rusty, the love of her life who started her adventures in dog training, behavior work, agility and tricks. He is a 4 year old lab cross who is a ball of energy and recovering bad manners boy. Sirius who is a 3.5 year old Sheppard/Malamute cross who loves to chase all things that move. Cinder the old girl at 6 who is a Sheppard/Kelpie cross.
She fosters dogs for Wag A Muffins and helps train and teach them to become the best dog they can be. Sierra particularly enjoys working with dogs who are stubborn and “misunderstood”. She loves to see frustration transform into eager learning when the animal feels understood. She also looks forward to any opportunity to teach fun tricks, and has an interest in learning more about agility, other dog sports, and canine fitness. Sierra is working on finishing her Dogma Dog Training certificate.
Sophie
Sophie is a certified dog trainer (VSA-CDT) through Victoria Stilwell’s online Dog Trainer Course. She was introduced to dog training when she rescued her Border Collie mix, Lyla at 12 weeks old. She has always had a passion for animals, with a special soft spot for dogs.
Sophie
Sophie is a certified dog trainer (VSA-CDT) through Victoria Stilwell’s online Dog Trainer Course. She was introduced to dog training when she rescued her Border Collie mix, Lyla at 12 weeks old!
She has always had a passion for animals, with a special soft spot for dogs. She knew she wanted to be able to take Lyla as many places as possible and teach her in the best way that she could which is how she found Positive Reinforcement. Seven years later, they now share an undeniable bond that can’t really be put into words.
In 2020, Sophie and Lyla joined the Flying Potato team! Working together as an agility team is incredible. A team sport like agility has really enhanced their bond in so many other areas of our lives as well! She is thrilled to be able to help others strengthen their bond with their dogs with the sport of agility.
Carrie
Carrie is a Calgary-based certified dog trainer and Certified Trick Dog Instructor. Her German Shepherd, Glitch, attained her SDDA Master Championship in Scent Detection at 22 months old and was the first Calgary-based team to earn their SDDA Elite Championship and Grand Master Championship titles.
Carrie
Carrie is a Calgary-based certified dog trainer and Certified Trick Dog Instructor. She and her German Shepherd, Glitch, are very active competing in several disciplines and are always looking to learn new skills. Glitch attained her SDDA Master Championship in Scent Detection at 22 months old and were the first Calgary-based team to earn their SDDA Elite Championship and Grand Master Championship titles. Carrie also competes with her Chinese Crested, Zipporwhill, who holds titles in several scent related disciplines so far. Nothing makes Carrie happier than developing her relationship with her dogs and helping other teams grow and achieve their goals.
Carol
Carol is passionate about all things dog. She has many years of experience working with dogs in pet care, training, and grooming. She is interested in learning more about other performance sports and hopes to get more involved in competing in them in the future.
Carol
Carol is passionate about all things dog. She has many years of experience working with dogs in pet care, training, and grooming.
Currently, she has 2 dogs that are her whole world. Hiro is an 11-year-old Yorkie mix breed that loves to cuddle and is happy doing anything where food is involved. Kirin is a 6-year-old Mini American Shepherd who loves to play fetch and do agility.
Carol has experience training her dogs in Agility, Outdoor Obedience, Tricks, Disc, and Rally-O. She is interested in learning more about other performance sports and hopes to get more involved in competing in them in the future.
Leona
Leona is a life long animal lover who grew up around dogs and cats, although she doesn’t have any pets right now, she’s hoping to adopt a puppy sometime in the near future. While working as an assistant with Flying Potatoes she has become interested in learning agility and training her future dogs in the sport.
Leona
Leona is a life long animal lover who grew up around dogs and cats, although she doesn’t have any pets right now, she’s hoping to adopt a puppy sometime in the near future.
While working as an assistant with Flying Potatoes she has become interested in learning agility and training her future dogs in the sport. Along with being an assistant with Flying Potatoes she is also a student looking to pursue a career in psychology with the goal of working as a child psychologist.
