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ABOUT MARY RAY
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Mary first entered the world of dog training when she joined Rugby Dog Training Club in 1978. Such was her talent and success that she had become the club’s head trainer by 1980 and was quickly recognised as one of the country’s top competition handlers. Mainly handling Border Collies, in obedience competitions she has qualified no less than nine dogs to work in Championship ‘C’, the highest possible class. She has won this class on 59 occasions which has led to several of her dogs and bitches becoming Obedience Champions. She has also won the Crufts Obedience championships on three occasions, one of those being with a Tervueren.
Mary is also an established expert in dog agility competitions having been one of the sport’s pioneers. She has won the prestigious Pedigree Agility Stakes at Olympia and been a part of the Rugby DTC Crufts agility team which has won that event on two occasions. Mary has also handled a Sheltie at the mini, or small dog, Crufts agility championships. Needless to say she won the event.
Another big big part of her dog life has been Heelwork to Music which she started demonstrating in 1990, and together with Peter Lewis they went on to turn them into a new competitive dog event. It has grown into a thriving sport recognised by the Kennel Club. For many years now Mary has been invited to give a demonstration of this art form with dogs in the Crufts Best in Show arena on the final night.
With all this experience this exceptional dog trainer is in demand across the world. The list of countries where she has taught and judged are too many to list. Suffice it to say that, globally, her expertise with dogs is heavily in demand.
Mary has made many videos about training dogs, showing her methods and how she uses clicker training for many exercises. Together with her new book entitled Dog Tricks they are available to order from pages in this web site.