CANINE ACADEMY, INC.
"Your Dog's Best Friend"

Special thanks to our interns and assistants that help us out. 

Gretchen Buckles is an avid dog lover and trainer. She loves being a part of our team and is often found at Canine Academy, working with her dogs as well as helping out in classes. She enjoys doing obedience, agility, as well as trick training with her trio of Boston Terriers, Una Poe & Tayto.
When she isn't training dogs Gretchen works as a graphic artist and has her own hand-made dog tag business.
To see a video of Gretchen made about the dogs  that have touched her life, click the following link.


Jennifer Janik
& her husband Paul share their home with seven of their own dogs and one foster dog. 
Jennifer volunteers for Joyful Rescues and Northern Chautauqua Canine Rescue.  After taking numerous obedience classes with us, Jennifer joined our team recently.  Her patience and understanding of dogs and people only adds to our training classes.

Kristin Napoli graduated from Canisus College with a bio major and an animal behavior minor.  She is working towards veterinary school.  Kristin volunteers at the SPCA and interns at various vet offices.  Not only is she a big help at obedience classes and agility classes, she is a great singer and has appeared in various plays and musicals.  Update - Kristin is off to school again - she will visit us periodically for more updates.

Victoria Francabandiero attends agility classes with her four-year old Boston Terrier Lexi.  She is studying to be a Veterinary Technician.  Victory always has a big smile for everyone as she helps us out with agility class.

Michelle Jezuit first joined us by taking 4-H classes with her poodle Cassie.  Michelle has numerous ribbons from competing with Cassie in agility and last year took first place at the 4-H obedience competition for Graduate Novice and also received honors for high score at the obedience competition at the fair.  Michelle helps us out in agility classes.

Alex - More info soon.