Kris Seiter ~ PCOTC Agility Training Director
  Competitive Agility Instructor/Professional Handler
 

For as long as Kris can remember, she has spent her entire life with animals.  Growing up with as many as 20 dogs at a time, as well as cats, rabbits, rodents, birds and even a monkey, Kris's love for animals has grown into a life long passion.  Today, Kris currently shares her home with 10 dogs: 4 rescue Keeshonden, 2 Border Collies, a rescue Pomeranian,  an Alaskan Malamute a rescue 3 legged American Eskimo and just recently a Hungarian Mudi.  

Kris also shares her home with her Mom and Dad's tiny Pomeranian named Melba and their Border Collie Flame. Kris has loads of experience raising puppies of various breeds as well as working with rescue dogs and dogs with abused backgrounds.   

Kris also works with Keeshond and American Eskimo Rescue retraining dogs that need new homes.  With her foster dogs, Kris works to solve behavioral issues these dogs might have in order to help them find permanent homes in the future. 

Always informally training animals as a kid, Kris seriously began training dogs 16 years ago, starting with competitive obedience .  After 8 years of successfully showing her keeshond, Randall and her Pomeranian Rushka, in competitive obedience, Kris's interest turned to the Performance sport of  Dog Agility.

For the last 10 years, Kris has trained and competed in the Performance Sport of Dog Agility.  Kris is a National Level competitor and has appeared in the final events of the 2005, 2006 and 2007 World Cynosport Games.

 Working with her rescue dogs, Kris  builds confidence and motivation through relationship.  Kris sees each dog as an individual and therefore applies different training techniques for all dogs especially for dogs that are fearful or have been abused.  These dogs need special attention and during their training sessions sometimes the tiniest improvements are the most important.  With innovative ideas and play based training sessions, fearful dogs can learn to love the sport of agility.

Kris trains about 150 students weekly in the NY and NYC area and helps her students develop great  relationships with their dogs.  One of Kris's main goals is to inspire her students to love working with their dogs and to develop the confidence in their own training to not only build stronger bonds, but enable them to reach their individual goals within the sport. 

Kris clicker trains all foundation behaviors by free shaping and  helps her students use these positive reinforcement based methods.   Clicker training builds confidence and  confident dogs perform without hesitation.   In any agility partnership between dog and handler, Kris stresses trust in each other which evolves into dynamic, fast agility teams. 

 (KRIS & LOCHLAN - NOV 2007 - GRAND PRIX FINAL WORLD CYNOSPORT GAMES, SCOTTSDALE, AZ)
AT RIGHT

Currently,  Kris has 6 dogs competing in agility.  All are at different levels and require different techniques in order to get the best possible performance from them.  She is showing 2 Rescue Keeshonden, Nadja and Hermione, both have had rough starts in life and are extremely noise sensitive, 2 Border Collies, Lochlan and his half brother War, 2 Pomeranians, one is a rescue named Rushka who is fearful of everything and one is her parents Pomeranian named Melba who is known throughout the East Coast as one of the smallest agility competitors.  Melba even has her own fan club.

Kris has earned over 150 Agility titles with 9 different dogs to the Championship level from the three largest Agility Associations in the United States.  Kris and her Border Collie Lochlan have appeared in the Final Events at the 2005, 2006 and 2007 USDAA World Games in Scottsdale, Arizona. 

Kris has appeared in several dog related Magazines with her dogs and has written various articles on training based themes.  Kris's dogs have also been featured on television and movie promotion work.

Kris has been serving as the Agility Training Director for Port Chester Obedience Club for the last 6 years.  Her program offers all levels of agility training from Beginner foundation to the Master's level.  Kris has 5 instructor's working under her program, one of which is her sister, Kim, who is an accomplished instructor/handler in her own right.

(KRIS & WAR - NOV. 2007 - STEEPLECHASE SEMI-FINALS- WORLD CYNOSPORT GAMES SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA) AT LEFT

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