Woohoo! We finally have a certified trainer from Alaska. Kristi is the Quality Assurance Manager for Fairbanks Resource Agency (located ironically in Fairbanks, AK). She and I have been on the phone and the internet forever and finally met this past year at a Therap conference!! Besides being from Alaska, which is cool in itself, she is a dog person (like Sally Swenson and her Rhodesian Ridgebacks!) and shows Bernese Mountain Dogs! Yet another dog that would need pull Archie in a rickshaw except that this time it would be over the snow-covered tundra under the Northern Lights and not the hot, dry desert of Utah.
Will see you soon, Kris!
Allison