The Blue Merle Clicker Academy was founded in 2006 by Kathleen Stubbings, a Crufts HTM 2009 finalist, who now has one of the top 10 dogs in the country in this sport.  The Academy is  dedicated and specialises in Heelwork to Music/Freestyle training.  Although lessons are taught with the Clicker, reward based training is also used.  Classes are given weekly on Friday evenings in Twickenham, Middlesex.   High standards are encouraged and world class professionals are invited to teach at our workshops.

Kathleen has been a teacher for over 25 years.  As a professional musician and singer she has taught young and old, privately and class groups.  She is now putting those teaching skills towards clicker training dogs.   She owns four dogs, Jake (BORDERTOWN SHADES OF BLUE), a Blue Merle Border Collie, Aubrey (AUBREY GOLDEN SIRIUS) a  Welsh Sheep Dog, and Rose (RHOSYN TEGWEN BANON OF GROVE) also a Welsh Sheepdog and Mackinley (COLEPARK ETERNAL LIGHT) a Bearded Collie.   All are clicker trained.

Kathleen has been passionate about Clicker training since getting Jake at 7 weeks old and is mostly self taught, later taking training with Katie Dowding of the Canine Film Academy, Kay Laurence at Learning About Dogs and Gina Pink, 2007  HTM Crufts Finalist winner.

All Kathleen’s dogs compete and are assessed in the Paws n Music Progress Awards.