Our Instructors

Redgates Agility Club currently has 5 accomplished instructors.
When we started back in 2001 there were just 2 - Tim and Clare !!!

Tim has been involved in Agility since 1993 and has been competing since 1994. His first dog Jess was a slow and steady “Mrs Clear Round”, whereas Baz, his second dog was a fast Border Collie who qualified for both the Agility Club Starters Challenge Final and the Agility Needs Jumping Finals in 2000.

Tim is pictured (left) with his 3rd Dog Travis, who was born totally deaf and is also epileptic. With Clare’s help with Obedience Training, Tim has achieved top ten placings with Travis on Open Agility Competitions.

Tim has been trained in the techniques of
being a Training Instructor and is complimented
on being a good communicator.

Tim is also an experienced Agility Judge having passed the Agility Club Judges Course back in 2003, and now Judges several times each year at all levels up to and including Grade 7.

Clare first started teaching Agility at the West Suffolk Club in 1999, and attended the Agility Club Instructors Course in 2002. She has also attended the British Institute of Professional Dog Trainers Obedience Instructors Course. She is now training her 3rd Agility Dog, Kaeleon Summer Breeze whom she is also showing in the breed ring. Breeze qualified for Crufts 2009 at her first ever show !!! Whilst Clare has judged at Agility Competitions, she prefers to act as Ring Manager, Scrime, or Score etc.

Clare is a multi disciplined Dog Training Instructor with a knack for seeing things and being able to find simple practical solutions to individual problems or areas in need of improvement.

Mark Dilley joined Redgates as an Instructor in 2006. His first involvement in dog training was in 2002 with his wife Sharon’s Parsons Russell Terrier, Maddy. Initially this was Obedience Training but they moved onto Agility in 2004. It was Sharon who ran Maddy in Agility Competitions whilst Mark helped on the Rings. Tim and Clare started to coach Mark in teaching methods, and in 2007 he attended and passed the Agility Club Instructors Course at Approved Level.

He has also recently attended and passed the Kennel Club Agility Judges Course, and in 2005 started training his own dog Logan, who in Mark’s words is a very fast and naughty Collie Cross.

Danny Fuller spent the first 2 years of his involvement in Agility standing on the sidelines watching classes and competitions. He believes this is where he gained the majority of his knowledge, studying the way in which the handlers moved and positioned themselves & how the dogs reacted. The first dog he worked and trained was one he borrowed from a disabled owner.

Louise Case has worked with dogs since leaving school at 16. This was at a local boarding kennels whilst she also went to college to study animal care. She got her first dog - a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel when she was 18 and went on various instructor courses, and started teaching pet dog & puppy training classes. She is now a Veterinary Nursing Assistant.

After a few years of working various dogs Danny was asked to take a lesson at the West Suffolk Agility Club. With 3 years of instructing there and 5 years of Instruction at West Lodge Kennels where he met Louise, he has found that handlers respond well to the way he teaches. Danny and Louise now have a red and white Collie who competes at Grade 6, two Australian Shepherds who Louise works at Grade 3 in Agility as well as showing them in the breed ring. Danny also recently took on a new young Aussie with plenty of drive and a bright Agility future. When Danny and Louise teach they aim to pass on a deeper understanding of how to work in Agility and to get the most out of the special bond that people have with their canine friends.