| Working Class Canine |

Working Class Canine offers a variety of services for the canine community.
Our long range goal is to build an indoor training facility that will be available to others (individual, instructors or clubs) for practice, instruction or event use Owner, Diane Richardson taught pet dog obedience from 1989 to 1997. She has provided private dog, puppy and whelping/litter care advise since 1996. Diane worked in the pet care industry for 20 years, 17 of those years in pet resorts, and managed pet resorts for 14 of those years. Her last position was manager of an 83 run, 14 cat boarding, grooming and training facility with 7-10 employees. She has her ABKA Level II Pet care Technician certification. Diane has been involved with Rottweilers since 1985 (breeding them since 1991) and Shiba Inu since 1995. She has shown in conformation on and off since the late 1980's and in 2003 finally had time to venture into the competition obedience world. The dog she did this with was Bea.( U-CD B Mine vd Frolikind zu Frontier CD, RE, TD, CGC, TT) In about 2 years Diane and Bea obtained the titles of AKC CD, CGC, TD, RN, RA, RE, USTTA TT, UKC CD and 4 RAE legs including a 1st place from a class of 50 Advanced dogs and a 2nd from a class of 41 Excellent dogs. Bea earned a ranking of 16th in Rally Excellent from the ARC in 2005 (3 trials only!), a ranking of 11th in Rally Advanced from the ARC in 2006 and an ARC Top 10 medallion and certificate for her rank of 5th in Rally Excellent for the same year (4 trials only!). At the time of her unexpected death from bone cancer (2/20/08), Bea was ready for her TDX and Wildlife Recovery Dog (wounded game recovery) certification. Bea pups born 2/1/08 for information click here |

| Bea's daughter, Annie (Frontier Komotion RN) earned her AKC RN in 3 straight trials at the age of 9 months old in 2005. picture below |

| Working Class Canine Diane Richardson P.O. Box 554, Claremont, NH 03743 |

