Club Members. We are Family. 

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Joanne Fleming-Plumb
Training Director 

Joanne Fleming-Plumb has been most successful as one of the top Schutzhund coaches in the country, having coached the 1997 and 1998 Vice World Working Dog Champion. She is best known for her powerful motivational system for competitive working dog training.

Well known as a coach and competitor, Joanne's students have achieved multiple high-in-trials, Regional and National wins as well as international placements. Joanne's club member and student, Sue Nesbitt, has represented LV America 3 times with two different dogs. Club member Lisa Little represented LV DVG America in 2013 with her Malinois Hailey. 

​Joanne has earned the opportunity to represent North America in International competition 7 times, in 2005 with two dogs, a Belgian Malinois and a German Shepherd Dog, receiving the highest placing of any North American in 2005. Having represented LV America at the DVG Bundessieger-Prüfung from 2005-2007, Joanne also won the 2007 LV America Championships with her dog Enno, then went on to place 5th at the DVG BSP in Germany. Joanne has also found time to pick up high-in-trials in both AKC and CKC obedience competition along the way and her students have picked up multiple HIT's and HOT's.

Having competed with 5 breeds in multiple disciplines with tremendous success, Joanne attracts crowds at her many seminars on multiple continents. In these productions, Joanne details how to create a true partnership with your dog and lay the foundation for world-class working dog performance whether a Schutzhund competitor, kennel club enthusiast or owner of a lively and companionable pet.

To Email Joanne, click HERE.

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Andrew Booth

Andrew is a Certified DVG Level 3 Helper and Classified USCA Helper who brings with him 4 years of IPO experience and 3 years of French Ring experience. Andrew titled his Doberman to APr 3 and a French Ring Brevet, and has put multiple BHs on his and his clients' dogs. He did the Helper Work/Protection Training for his wife's Doberman who is one of the few Dobermans to ever title with both legs in French Ring 1. Andrew is the IPO Chair for 2017 UDC nationals and is the President of a Kentucky IPO club and has helped multiple club members earn titles on their dogs. And, he's just a good guy who loves to develop dogs that are happy and full of drive. 

​Andrew lives in Kentucky but comes out to Texas to help the RRWD team work their dogs in protection. 

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Ashley Brezina
President, RRWD/DVG

Meet our club President, Ashley. With her love of  dogs starting at a young age, Ashley carted around her stuffed animal puppies with her everywhere she went. She grew up around German Shepherds, and the heart and versatility of the working German Shepherd Dog is what draws her to the breed today. Today she also owns and trains Malinois. 

Competitive by nature, Ashley has been active in a variety of dog sports with her own German Shepherds for the past few years and has always wanted to delve into the sport of Schutzhund. In early July 2019, she picked up her first IPO prospect,  named ‘777’ (aka "Trip") and has been enjoying their training journey together since. While she has plans to achieve some obedience titles on her other dogs, Ashley’s goal is to take ‘777’ from puppy all the way to a 3.

When she’s not on the training field, Ashley is busy caring for her clients' dogs while they stay with her. She got into the dog boarding industry shortly after she moved to Texas over 5 years ago and decided she needed to make a career of it. Ashley truly has a passion for dogs. She has an authentic, intellectual curiosity about how one might train any exercise smarter, so the dog works with joy, passion, drive and precision, which makes her a truly valued team member and leader at Red River Working Dogs.

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Robin Loreth

Robin Loreth is the founder of RRWDs and has served as President until late 2023. She's owned working dog breeds all of her life, starting with German Shepherds and teaching obedience lessons at the Seattle YMCA and later serving as a part of an Avalanche Search & Rescue team in Southeast Alaska. She's currently working and living in Alaska's capital hearing cases in Alaska's commercial fisheries. She comes home regularly as they still own the ranch that's home to the RRWD Club.

A lifelong competitive equestrian, Robin discovered the sport of IPO in 2011 when she met Sandi Purdy and Joanne Fleming at a working dog seminar. After moving to Texas, she switched from the German Shepherd to the Doberman and has become an active advocate for the breed's health.

Robin works with a respected team of Cornell University canine geneticists, researchers and veterinarians on cutting edge methods to improve the genetic health and longevity of the breed. The project site is www.DobermanDiversityProject.org

Rodney Dean
President, GDWDC/USCA

Rod's interest in dog training stared early. He grew up in Kansas where he did a lot of hunting with his dogs. His first dog was a Black Lab who loved to hunt. Rod thought she was pretty good until he met some field trial trainers. That meeting was the beginning of his dog training career.
In those early years, Rod learned from National competitors in the field trial circuit and became a national competitor with his Lab placing 3rd in the Nation in the Derby. The next year, he placed 7th in the nation. 
Rod was asked to Judge a Derby for the Topeka Retriever Club, which broadened his experience.

Later, he would give up hunting and move to the big city, but still needed to be involved in some kind of dog training and he stepped into the world of Schutzhund (now known as IPO). The sport presented Rod with a challenge and something that was as exciting as training and handling in field trials.
Rod's first Schutzhund dog was a German Shepherd puppy called Ute. New to the sport, Rod sought out the best trainers from whom to learn this sport and apply what he had learned from his field trial days. And it worked out. Rod's took Ute from a puppy to Schutzhund 3, earning Rod membership in the Schutzhund 3 Club (titling at the highest level possible in the sport).

Since then, Rod trained and titled several dogs, started a Schutzhund Club, built a Kennel with a Schutzhund field and started a breeding program for working line German Shepherds. Rod's ambition is to never stop learning new techniques in dog training and to better the breed.

After a move north, Rod now trains and coaches at Red River Working Dogs where the team is working to develop themselves and their young dogs in the sport -- and having great fun while doing it! ​

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Carolyn Brigham

​Profile coming as soon as Carolyn gets to it! :)  
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Bill Hawkes

Texas

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Courtney Brown

Texas

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Faith Murrey

Texas

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Paper Members. 

Members who live too far away to regularly train with us, but who are DVG members through the RRWD.

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Savanna Odom

Anchorage, Alaska

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Dana Aspinall

Weatherford, Texas

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Sidney Morales

Brighton, Colorado

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In memoriam ... 

Dawn Willsher

​Dawn, a resident of Denison, Texas, brought with her several years of experience with dogs. She was certified as an AKC Canine Good Citizen evaluator, including the AKC Star Puppy Certification and was a reliable, and positive club member and friend. 

Over the years, she trained well over 1,000 owners and their dogs and offered dog training classes to her dedicated clients. Dawn was the owner/operator of Pets Etc Grooming & Training in north Texas where she provided grooming and basic through advanced dog training services since 1977. She earned numerous titles on her dogs, from AKC CDs to Schutzhund titles and she's a missed member of the Red River Working Dog family.

We miss you Dawn.