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POCATELLO — In Jane Guidinger’s dog training classes,canines and their owners play musical chairs, tic-tac-toe andcharades. The fun and games reinforce commands of sit, stay andcome, and help dogs to socialize.

“If you think dog training is boring, then you’ll be bored andso will your dog. It can be a lot of fun,” says Guidinger.

She has dedicated herself to teaching effective dog trainingmethods for nearly two decades through the Pocatello Kennel Club,One Dog Makes a Difference, and Heart to Heart, Pocatello’s chapterof the Delta Society’s pet partners program involving therapydogs.

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“The more well-trained dogs we have, the better off everyoneis,” she says. “A dog really can be a person’s best friend.”

Guidinger’s trademark sense of humor accompanies her not onlywhen she teaches obedience and agility classes, but also when sheand her dogs visit schools, nursing homes and assisted livingcenters as members of Heart to Heart. Since she and others foundedthe group in 1995, her dogs have made some memorable impressions onstudents.

“A teacher asked me if I could train Chance to ‘stop, drop androll’ for a fire safety program,” Guidinger says of her Irishsetter. “I tossed a blanket over him, pretending it was a fire,then told him to stop, which he did, then drop, then roll. The kidsloved it.”

Guidinger’s humor is tempered with serious credentials. Shecompleted the lengthy certification process to receive endorsementfrom the National Association of Dog Obedience Instructors in puppyand novice categories.

“In Idaho, there are only three of us with an NADOIendorsement,” she said.

For nearly 20 years, she has been a training director for areakennel clubs. She has more than 30 years training experience, alongwith shelves of trophies and ribbons and titles that she and herIrish setters and Shetland sheepdogs have won at fun matches andkennel club shows. To provide more diverse programs than the kennelclub offered, Guidinger started One Dog Makes a Difference in 1999.“There was a need for a program that offered training classes topuppies as young as 8 to 16 weeks old. Plus, some dog owners wereinterested in agility training.”

In her yard, she has an agility course set up, so her twoShetland sheepdogs Captain and Tennille, and her Irish settersChance and Kilo, can practice walking across seesaws, jumpingthrough hoops, dashing through tunnels or zigzagging around aseries of vertical poles.

To track her numerous canine commitments, Guidinger relies on acalendar on her fridge. On weekends, she and others practiceagility training at C&M Farms.

She teaches classes Monday and Wednesday in building B at theBannock County Fairgrounds. Every Tuesday afternoon, she and Chanceor Captain are at Gate City Elementary School as Heart to Heartmembers.

“Heart to Heart is a way to give back to the community, shesays. “The obedience trials along with the titles are ego trips forowners. For the dogs, the fun of running an agility course isreward in itself.”

Guidinger says her love of dog training started when she was13, and she enrolled in a dog-obedience class with Rouke, herPembroke Welsh Corgi cross. She describes herself as a lifelongstudent. She has not only been a student of canine behavior, shehas also earned degrees from Idaho State University in zoology in1977 and secondary education in 1993.

“I’ll always be going to seminars to learn the best trainingmethods,” says Guidinger, who is fulfilling requirements to earnher NADOI endorsement in agility. “In the past couple of years,we’ve changed the way we teach agility.”

She welcomes people who are committed to training their dogs,or even people without dogs, to come to ODMAD and Kennel Clubclasses and events.

“We have people in the kennel club who don’t even have dogs,”says Guidinger, who is starting a two-year term as club president. “They just like being around the kind of people who like dogs. Wehave a good time.”

To learn more about local dog training programs, she suggestschecking out Media or the local kennel club Media
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