The Deep Peninsula Dog Training Club sponsors Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced Intermediate, Advanced, Show Novice, Open, and Utility classes every Monday evening behind the main building in Rengstorff Park in Mountain View. Attention classes may be offered in the spring and summer. Both purebreds and mixed breeds are welcome!

Rosalie Alvarez	Training Director/Head Trainer
Judy Cummings	Instructor
Pat Alvarez	Instructor
Bea Moore	Instructor
Lora Cox	Instructor

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Rosalie Alvarez

Rosalie's interest in obedience training and competition began with a red Doberman pinscher, who, according to Rosalie, picked her at a time when she wasn't particularly looking for a dog.  "Fee", short for Coffee Royal, quickly became Rosalie's best friend, and over her competition career, earned a Utility Dog and a Tracking Dog title, a rare combination in earlier days.  Along the way, Rosalie and Fee received multiple High in Trial awards and two perfect 200 scores.  Fee accompanied Rosalie to schools to demonstrate obedience and scent discrimination and was a member of the Doberman Drill Team. With Rosalie holding the leash, Fee also tracked down the thief who snatched Rosalie's purse in downtown San Jose!

Since her beginning obedience days with Fee, Rosalie has earned numerous obedience titles with a wide variety of dogs including shelties, Rottweilers, poodles, beagles, miniature pinschers, collies, whippets, German Shepherds, golden retrievers and other Doberman pinchers.

Rosalie became a professional dog trainer as a result of people coming to her for advice and help.   She became an AKC Obedience Judge after being encouraged to do so by the head of AKC's Obedience Committee and also her husband, Pat. Rosalie states that the biggest thrill of her life was the first time a handler in her ring, upon receiving a qualifying score, declared, "This is my degree!"  Rosalie was thrilled and proud to be a part of it!

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Judy Cummings

Judy Cummings teaches Utility 5:30-6:30 p.m., Open 6:30-7:30 p.m., and Show Novice 7:45-8:45 p.m.

Judy has been teaching classes for Deep Peninsula for 10 years now, after assisting with various classes for 6 years. She especially enjoys the Show Novice class because it is here that dogs and handlers learn the solid foundations of obedience teamwork that form the basis for success at the upper levels. She loves sharing in the excitement when a student completes that first Companion Dog title!

She brought home her first collie pup in 1966, but it wasn’t until the third collie, in 1978, that she got bitten by the obedience bug. Judy started training classes with Rosalie and Pat Alvarez and discovered obedience competition. Since then, obedience training theory and techniques have fascinated her.

Judy has trained 6 tricolor rough collies to advanced obedience titles. Her first was Cummings Highland MacGregor, CDX. He was trained through Utility, but could never manage the bar jump (36 inches in those days!). Then came U-UD Blossom Hill Rob Roy, UD, CGC, HIC, VC, followed by U-CDX Blossom Hill Highland Piper, UDX, CGC (She was the 2nd collie to earn the UDX title and had 30 OTCH points when she retired). Her successor was Geordie, U-CDX Sunrise Diane Celtic Dream, UDX, CGC, HIC, A-AOM I, II, & III, VC. Geordie earned all three AKC titles in his first three trials, completed his CDX with a Dog World Award, placed 4th in Open in the 1998 Pupperoni Western Regional, and was the Top Delaney Collie for 1996 and Top first and Foremost Collie for 1999 & 2000. He was followed by Jamie, VCH U-CDX Barksdale Expressly Yours, VCD1, UDT, AXJ, MJP, JHD, HRD-Is, HT, CGC, BPD. Because of Jamie’s early fear issues, Judy branched out into herding, tracking and agility to build his confidence, and he competed in the 2006 AKC National Obedience Invitational.  Closely related to Jamie is Drummer, Barksdale Regimental Colors, VCD2, UDT, NA, NAJ, OAP, AJP, HIC, CGC, VC, who is currently active in obedience and agility. The new boy now waiting in the wings is Tavish, LegendHold Con Te Partiro, just a puppy at this writing.

Judy is involved in obedience or agility events almost every weekend, either competing at trials or attending workshops and seminars. She also maintains a database of collies in obedience and reports monthly obedience rankings to a national collie magazine, as well as to the annual Collie Club of America Yearbook. In addition, she and her friend and teacher, Diane Hemphill, have contributed a monthly training article to the magazine, Collie Expressions, since 1992. Lastly, Judy is Editor for the American Working Collie Association’s quarterly newsletter, as well as Secretary, and has served on the national obedience committee for the Collie Club of America.

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Pat Alvarez

Pat Alvarez teaches the Beginning class 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Pat started Obedience training in 1972 with a male Doberman.He has taken his dogs to numerous CD's and CDX's, as well as five UD's.Pat is licensed to judge all AKC Obedience Classes.

Pat became a trainer in 1978 and has been a trainer for Deep Peninsula DTC, Town and Country DTC, and Santa Clara DTC.He was also the Captain of the Doberman Drill Team whose performances thrilled audiences in the United States and Canada.

Pat lives in Los Altos Hills, California with his wife Rosalie, who is also a licensed AKC judge. Together they started the K-9 Units for the Santa Clara Sheriff's Department and the Gilroy Police Department and are now advisors and evaluators for new Dogs ready to go on the street. Pat is a member of Doberman Pinscher Club of America, Deep Peninsula DTC, Town and Country DTC, Santa Clara Valley KC and the Northern California Judges Association.

Pat and Rosalie presently reside with a Doberman Pinscher, a Ch. Miniature Pinscher CDX, and two CDX Golden Retrievers.

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Bea Moore

Bea Moore teaches the Rally class, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Advanced class, 6:30-7:30, and assists in the Show Novice class, 7:45-8:45.

Bea has been involved with training dogs since 1984. She has trained three dogs to a UD title, earned many Rally titles, put Champion Tracker titles on two dogs, and earned Agility titles, field titles, and CGC / TDI certificates. Her dogs have worked as Therapy dogs over the years in Senior Day Care Centers, Alzheimer Units and Assisted Living facilities.

Bea has worked with Rosalie Alvarez since 1999 and has been an Obedience trainer and a Rally trainer since April 2003. Her tracking experience began in 1994 and she teaches tracking.

Bea is an AKC Novice & Open Obedience Judge and an AKC Novice, Advanced & Excellent Rally Judge.

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Lora Cox

Lora Cox teaches in the Open and Utility classes.