Meet The Trio

​Crystal has been training dogs since 2006 and traveled the nation learning and competing in various protection sports.  She is a certified trial helper through GSDCA for IGP and training decoy for mondioring. Through extensive traveling and training she has titled several different dogs in several different protection sports, dock diving, agility, weight pull and rally. She is training her newest K9 for human remains detection. Crystal is the Training Director for the Evolution Working Dog Club located in St. Louis, Mo.

Robin has been involved in detection work since 2001, beginning in wilderness and human remains detection (HRD), which expanded into disaster work. She trains and deploys with Nebraska Task Force 1 and Iowa Task Force 1. She is a certified explosives and narcotics detection dog handler. 

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Her focused education in behavior technology started in 2016 by attending Chicken Workshops (Behavior Technology Workshops). In 2018 she completed a four month resident apprenticeship with Parvene Farhoody, Phd. In 2022, Robin completed the Scandinavian Working Dog Institute year long Master K9 Trainer Program.

Robin is an evaluator/examiner for several national level SAR organizations, including FEMA, and sits on the AAFS Academy Standards Board Dog and Sensors Committee as a Subject Matter Expert.

Stacy Barnett is a top nosework competitor and trainer, titling multiple dogs at the Summit Level (SMT) with the National Association of Canine Scent Work (NACSW), (Judd SMTx3, Brava SMTx2). Stacy has been a faculty member at Fenzi Dog Sports Academy since 2015 and is an international clinician for seminars around the world. She is a licensed Judge for for AKC Scent Work where she was also retained in an advisory position for the AKC Scent Work program for 2 years.

Stacy holds a Chemical Engineering degree (BChE) and a masters in business administration. This has aided her in understanding air flow, crucial to training successful searching dogs. She has also titled dogs in agility, rally, obedience, tracking, barn hunt, disc, dock diving, and coursing.