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"She really has a gift that amazes people."

"WOW,  She is a Master at creating a bridge of knowledge between the animal and the human spirit. She really trains people.  Her in person seminars are fun and a delight. You walk away learning something and so does your dog. What a treat."

  Tracy has always had a love for animals. As a preteen she taught herself how to groom dogs. She started reading books on dog training and going to dog obedience training classes and that is how it all began.

   Later on, after many seminars, reading tons of dog obedience and behavior books, listing to tapes, watching video training tapes, and working with other trainers, she started her own dog obedience training school and started having classes and showing in Obedience and in Conformation.  Tracy has had many experiences and she can tell you what she knows that has worked for her, and for over 15,000 students and their dogs that she has had privilege of working with through seminars and group coaching and private one on one coaching.

Tracy with Isis and Jim with Jag 
with their Bomb and Protection Working Dogs 

    Both Rocky and Fritz were second hand dogs. They were both around 15 months old when Tracy and Jim adopted them. First came Rocky, who had major fears of noises, and motion.  Fritz was adopted about two years later from a family who didn't have time for him and didn't want him anymore. Fritz had both major obedience and behavior issues.

   They had Zed since he was 8 weeks old.  Zed was a handful until he was 17 months old. If he couldn't go under it, he would go over it, or through it! 

 Tracy and Jim and their children were riding their horses a mile from there house and looked around and saw Zed coming at full speed toward them. Just as they noticed him, he hit a hole in the ground and turned a full flip never loosing a stride. They had left him in the house and he decided to go through a screened window and to catch up to them. He ended up finishing the ride with them as if he was suppose to be there with them. He would get so far ahead and wait for them to catch up.

 Tracy recalls one of the scariest moments was when Zed was about 17 months old and he challenged her at the food bowl for the first and the last time! She can still remember the knots in her stomach, she said, as she stood her ground and met his challenge. Zed backed down to Tracy's relief, and he never did that again.

   Tracy says that Zed ate her hubby's third Bible, and she jokes that Zed literally ate the Word and got holy, for they never had trouble with him again. He loved Jim so much.

   Her first real job with dogs, in the late 1960's, was when she went to work for Robert (Bob) Martwick and Stuart Schroeder who owned "Stuart Kennels", a boarding and training facility, in Lombard, IL.

   Bob did the Purina Pet Food commercials with the original "Morris" the cat. They also housed, handled, and traveled with "Lady Greyhound", owned by Greyhound bus. Bob also taught dog obedience classes at the facility.

   Tracy had the privilege of knowing and caring for the original "Morris". She said that he was an awesome cat. 

   Bob was the major influence for Tracy in using food treats as rewards in motivational dog training along with lots of verbal praise, and toys. This is when she learned to make training fun for the dog and the handler.

   Tracy, as a young teen, showed her Miniature Poodle, Panzy, in Obedience. Working together, they got Panzy's CD in her first three Obedience Trials. As a young adult, Tracy showed in Conformation, with Collies, but decided that Obedience was more fun.

   She also got involved with behavioral reconditioning and found that very exciting. Tracy has combined obedience training and behavioral reconditioning in her training classes and seminars. She says that she really trains people!  If people will change, then their dogs follow and change too! 

   Later on, after her children were grown, she started showing again in Obedience with her German Shepherd, Rocky, and her Miniature Schnauzer, Fritzie. Once again she enjoyed going to dog shows and winning 1st places and trophies with both Rocky and Fritzie.

   Rocky was retired shortly after he received his CD, due to hip problems. Fritzie earned his CD, and CDX titles, but didn't get to complete his Utility dog training due to bone cancer. 

   Zed, Rocky, and Fritzie participated with Tracy in her training classes, with Fritzie being the star. He had such zest and really enjoyed working, and showing off! Fritz, of course, enjoyed all of the attention.

   She has owned six Mixed breeds, three Poodles, two Collies, three Dobermans, five German Shepherds, and a Miniature Schnauzer, which have all pasted away.

   She now has a mixed breed named "Orbit", who was Fritz's replacement. Orbit helps in the training classes and seminars. Like Fritz, she enjoys all of the attention and rewards! She enjoys seminars and showing off. It was shortly after Tracy got Orbit that she got interested in good nutrition for dogs and what was really in pet foods. Loosing two loved pets within in one year was tough. It was time to make some changes. Orbit has been on Flint River Ranch since a young pup, and hasn't been sick a day in all of her nine years. Now that's a testimony!

   Orbit was a gift from the South Suburban Humane Society, Chicago Heights, IL where Tracy did seminars.  Zed at the age of 13 died from several strokes. The following year, Fritzie, at the young age of six, died of bone cancer eating his skull away. The following spring is when Orbit joined the family.

Orbit and her sister had been abandoned on a porch and ended up at the South Suburban Humane Society. Orbit was really soft in her temperament, as Tracy says, and needed special handling to develop her self-confidence. Rocky a year later, also at the age of 13, died.

   Tracy and her husband moved to Missouri in the fall of 2005, to assist Tracy's Mom, who is elderly and had broken her leg. Tracy's Mom is doing great and is back to her job at Wal-Mart as head greeter.

   Tracy also had some health issues at that time. Tracy and Jim felt the Lord leading them in this move. They haven't regretted it. But they both gave up successful businesses.  But God has been more then faithful! Tracy is totally healed and loves being closer to her Mom.

   Tracy and Jim share a love of animals and enjoy trail riding and traveling with their horses, Kotton Kandy and Fancy. Tracy and Jim live in a rural area on the edge of the Ozarks near Truman Lake. Since they have acreage they are able to keep their horses on their property.

   What is so exciting to them is that they have access to 3900 acres of Army Corp Land to ride on, right behind their house. The Old Overland Butterfield Stage Coach Line route is right there too. They ride their horses right down to a cove on Truman Lake, just half a mile behind their house through the woods. Tracy and Jim have fun making new trails to ride on. Truman Lake has 984 miles of shore line and is connected to Truman Dam.

   Tracy and Jim also enjoy cats. They have had the pleasure of having six cats in their hearts. Now in Missouri they have been adopted by an older cat that use to live at the log house that they bought.

   They were told the cat's name was "Smoke".  Smoke likes sitting and sleeping on their porch swing on her special pillow, with or without Tracy and Jim. Smoke is pretty bossy and demanding, but they love her! She comes to greet them when they come home. She also follows them around when they are working outside. She oversees everything!

   They have three grown children and eight grandchildren.