Came from her bitterness yes wear empire the early use class, Beginning Agility and Freestyle. She has also served as OCC's president. I believe that a happy dog-human relationship is based on treating a dog like a dog and not imposing our primate heritage on him. The human must be a strong leader who provides and protects. The dog wants to be a working pack member and if we 't give him a job, he'll invent one. One of her dogs broke the world's record for running the longest human dog tunnel, 309 people is educator at the Tennessee Aquarium. addition to dogs, her animal training experience includes elephants, sea lions, birds and horses. Gross has been a member of OCC since at least 2007, and has owned dogs and or cats for most of her life. She was a pet sitter for decades. She has owned Shetland sheepdogs, and currently has a Pomeranian and four cats. During her OCC membership she has earned titles obedience, rally, canine good citizen advanced, and therapy dog. She also has some experience agility. At OCC she has instructed Beginning Rally, and currently co-teaches Rally and Intermediate Obedience. She has served as OCC's Secretary, and on various committees over the years. Currently she serves as Facilities Coordinator and Inventory Specialist. She organized and served as on-site Trial Secretary for a Rally trial held at OCC 2015. She recently designed a new logo for OCC. She is a retired teacher of science, English, reading, and gifted students the north area. started performance when she got her first Bull Terrier and hasn't looked back. Along with her Bull Terriers, has obtained performance titles with Setter, Boxer and Border Collie. She is currently readying her Terrier, Ellis, for agility. 's first dog, Stella, was one of the first Bull Terriers to earn a CGC and become a registered therapy dog. Her dog Sawyer was the first, and to date, only Bull Terrier to earn a Rally Advanced Excellent title. He was also her first agility dog. During his career he earned upper level titles several venues, qualified for the AKC Invitational twice and the NADAC Nationals. At the end of his career he was AKC's Number 1 Bull Terrier. His sister Emily, also had a successful career. She too earned upper level Rally and Agility titles and qualified for the NADAC Nationals. They both earned the Bull Terrier Club of 's Versatility Award and Versatility Excellent Award and Sawyer was awarded the Outstanding Performance Award---which has only been given to two other dogs. Along with Agility, 's other passion is therapy work with her canine partners. To date, she has logged well over a thousand hours visiting nursing homes, hospitals, schools, to name but a few. Since becoming a member of OCC 2004, has taught a variety of class, from BBB to Obedience and is currently volunteering her time to help develop and promote the new Agility Curriculum. She has spent years training with some of the top instructors GA, AL, TN and takes online classes and seminars effort to keep up with the latest training techniques. She is one of two AKC ACT Evaluators at OCC, a CGC evaluator, a Therapy Dog Evaluator and has written articles for the publications, The Canine Chronicle and Front and Finish. Millican has been a member of OCC since 2014 and has been training dogs since she was 12 when she decided to make Dog Care and Training her 4H project. She took her English Bulldog, General S. Patton III to dog school at UGA and went on to win Award of Excellence for her project. Currently she owns a Terrier, and Parsons Terrier, While continued to train her own dogs, it wasn't until she retired, from 30 years public education, that she was able