About Canine Team Training

<h2>Agility, scent work and obedience in De Soto</h2><p>Canine Team Training is located in Southern Illinois and gives its agility training location as De Soto, IL. The site describes the business as covering dog agility, nose and scent work, and obedience training, and states plainly that "Positive Training Methods Used!" The named instructor is Carol Ely, and the site credits the instructor with "Over 20 years of Professional Dog Training."</p><h3>What is offered</h3><p>Agility classes and nose work classes each have their own section on the site. Dog obedience classes are listed as being offered through John A Logan College, Community Education, in Carterville, IL &mdash; so the obedience side runs through the community-education program rather than only at a private facility. There are also pages for student information, resources, recipes and the instructor's own dogs.</p><h3>Credentials and competition record</h3><p>The home page lists AKC Scent Work Judge, AKC ACT and CGC Evaluator, Detection Dog Trials Judge and Detection Dog Trials Host. It also records results for the instructor's own dogs &mdash; Elite NACSW scent work titles for Abby and Annie, a Barn Hunt RATCH title for Mr. B, and Mr. B as a finalist at the Border Collie National Specialty 2024 with a second place and a Double Q with both first places at 24C jump height. Judging and evaluating roles of this kind are qualifications rather than classes an owner books; the bookable topics here are agility, scent and nose work, and obedience.</p><h3>Approach</h3><p>A note on the home page signed by Carol Ely advises handlers starting a new dog after a previous dog has passed to "try training new handling skills or behaviors, that you might not have developed with the prior dog," to create a "New Team" feeling &mdash; adding that a new dog "will never be the dog you had, but they can be the dog you never had yet."</p>