Judge Margaret McKenna

Judge Margaret McKenna is Scottish by birth, but Belgian by choice. She is a Belgian Ring judge (St. Hubert), and a Mondioring Judge. Margaret has judged many national level championships, including the Swiss and Belgian championships in recent times. This year, she will judge the International Championship of Mondioring for Belgian Shepherd Dogs in France in May.
While Margaret was not the first judge to come to America to judge Mondioring, she was the first to bring it to the people here in a friendly and do-able fashion. Margaret made Mondioring make sense, and encouraged many, many people to join this game to which we are now so addicted!! Her friendly, warm nature was a welcome relief for many who had struggled to learn the concepts that are so important in Mondioring.
We are honored that Margaret has accepted our invitation to judge the very first National Mondioring Championship. I think you will all agree, once you have met Margaret McKenna, that she is a very special ambassador of Mondioring. -- Ann Putegnat

I was born and bred in Scotland " Glasgow" came to Belgium in 1980 and forgot to go home. Bought myself a dog and went to a club to train in 1985 and have been on a training field ever since. I have competed in IPO, Mondioring and Belgian Ring. I would like to take this occasion to thank the US Mondioring board of directors for their confidence. To be invited to judge this 1st United States Mondioring Championships is great honor. Wishing everyone the best of luck at these championships.-- Margaret McKenna

Decoys

Tim Bartlett, Chris Moody, Matt Moore, and Rich Schneider

Tim Bartlett is a member of the LoneStar MondioRing Club. He has been training dogs for the Department of Defense for over 8 years. He is currently assigned to Lackland AFB, TX as a Detection/Patrol dog trainer. He has been involved in MondioRing for 2 1/2 years. Tim was selected as the team captain for this year's U.S. World Championship team that competed in Cascais, Portugal. He is certified as a Level 2 MondioRing decoy

Chris Moody bio: I began my addiction to decoying in 1998 with a chance meeting with my friend Keith Jobe in Amarillo,TX who was doing french ring. I am originally from Houston,TX, but made my to Lubbock where I studied art at Texas Tech University. I decided to move to Amarillo in 1998 to study nursing, at the university. I now teach art at (glass blowing).
My decoying career soon started in French Ring when I moved to Amarillo in 1998. In the year 2000 I was certified under Valladon as a Mondioring decoy. Then I decided I wanted to certify in Frech Ring, which I was in 2001. Over the years decoying has become much more than I ever thought. I have meet many people of the years who I now see to be some my closest friends. Decoying for me, changed my life forever. I hope to spend many more years decoying and enjoying the company of my four legged friends.

Matt Moore is a member of North Texas MondioRing Club in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. He has been actively involved in MondioRing for several years. He is a member of the USMRA decoy committee. Matt is currently a certified Level 1 MondioRing Decoy.

Rich Schneider has 18 years of police service dog experience while being employed by the Reno, Nevada Police K9 unit. He was the trainer for the K9 section for 12 of those years. He also helped establish 4 local police service K9 units during his time with the Reno Police Department. He became involved with sport K9's (MondioRing specifically) 4 years ago after attending a MondioRing seminar taught by Rene Sagarra. Since, he's been fortunate to work with several very good decoy's that have been instrumental in his own progress. His future goals are to help MondioRing develop in this country while improving as a training/trial decoy. Rich is currently certified as a Level 1 MondioRing Decoy.

Event Crew

Many hard working and creative people are needed to make a Mondioring event run well. From building the scenarios, running errands, to Deputy Judge and field staff, to the event officers, we thank them all for the hard work they have volunteered.
Here are some of our hard working volunteers.