by Sallee R. Kallenbach
When Alison Eberhand was a small child, a stray dog wandered into her yard. Naturally, Alison and her siblings wanted to keep the dog, but Alison’s Dad threatened to give him away unless he was trained to have some manners. “He was the worst dog ever,” said Alison, whose mother immediately enrolled her in an obedience class where they lived in Chino, CA. Fortunately, her mother was an experienced obedience trials competitor, so she encouraged the training of “Gus” (initially referred to as “Benji”), when Alison was only seven years old. Thus began Alison’s dog training career, and she has been training ever since.
