OUR EXPERIENCE

Director of Training, June Guido has a long, successful history working with dogs and their owners.

Her passion for obedience training as a means for creating lasting, bonded relationships between pets and their owners is why she first got started as an instructor. But truly, June has been involved in just about every aspect of owning and caring for dogs.

June’s work experience

June with Ricki and Ringer winning at the dog show.

June with Ricki and Ringer winning at the dog show.

In 1975, June began her apprenticeship at the Algeist Kennels School for Dogs in Tallahassee, Florida. After just three years as an instructor, she became a senior instructor. She served in that position for the next 15 years at Algeist Kennels and at Achates Canine Academy, where she was also a founding board member.

June then left Florida to move to Alaska where she became a Veterinary Technician and Emergency Response Coordinator. For two years, she assisted in surgery and post-surgery but never stopped training dogs under the Just Dogs Academy brand. In 1996, she not only instructed dog training classes and gave private lessons but also trained staff at American Pet Motels in Prairie View, Illinois.

She left American Pet Motels and became the Training Specialist for continuing education programs for responsible dog ownership at Invisible Fence Company. June had to both develop the training programs from scratch and teach the classes she created.

After Invisible Fence Company, June focused all of her energies on Just Dogs Academy, running the training academy wherever she lived, including her new home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Memberships, volunteer work and breeding

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Throughout her work years, June has served in a variety of volunteer organizations and been an AKC-certified breeder of Bouvier des Flandres dogs. Her volunteer and membership history includes:

  • AKC Breeder of Merit

  • Over 30 Champions

  • Obedience titles on 15 dogs

  • AKC Delegate

  • Founding Member and past Chair of the Bouvier Health Foundation

  • AKC Health Foundation Presidents’ Council

  • AKC Owner Handler Association

  • Nestle/Purina Ambassador

  • Association of Dog Obedience Instructors, Inc.

  • American Bouvier des Flandres Club

  • American Dog Owners Association

  • Owner Handler Association

  • Love on a Leash

  • Ducks Unlimited

  • Delta Society and Pet Partners

  • Forsyth Kennel Club

Locally, she is a member of the Forsyth Kennel Club.