HerUpland Endorsed Dog TrainHers

Meet The HerUpland Endorsed Dog TrainHers

This incredible group of professional and amateur dog trainers is the lifeline to HerUpland’s dog training initiative. They have years of dog training experience, have earned elite titles and awards, and are at the top of their game.

Every single one of them volunteers for the organization because they are supportive of the mission and dedicated to getting more women and girls inspired and involved in the sport they’re passionate about.

Christy Langston

Dog Trainer Christy Langston
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Aleah Marcoe

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Jill Koren

Dog Trainer Jill Koren
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Ruth Weiss

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Kata Miller

Kata Miller with her 3 Vizslas
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Rustene Pagel

Rustene Pagel with her dog
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Brittany Formby

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Christy Langston

Mount Vernon, MO

Dog Trainer Christy Langston

I live in Mount Vernon MO, and I am the mom of two wild little girls and wife to an amazing husband. I come from a very deep agriculture background and have a strong love for anything outdoors and conservation. Wild bird hunting is where my true passion is. I love the challenge, the traveling, chasing new species, and getting my dogs out where they were bred to be! After hunting season I roll into training season, currently I compete in NAVHDA and AKC events. When I am not chasing kids, cows, or training dogs, I will most likely have a camera in my hand! 

Aleah Marcoe

Nebraska

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Aleah Marcoe is the owner and trainer at Backwater Hunting Dogs located in southeast Nebraska. Born in Sitka, Alaska, Aleah has always been involved with the outdoors. She started training dogs at a young age and even helped teach obedience and agility classes throughout high school and college. Her love of training dogs collided with her passion for the outdoors about 15 years ago which introduced her to the world of hunt testing. It’s fueled her career ever since. She has been training professionally for 6 years and especially enjoys the challenge of training dogs for hunt tests. When she’s not training or testing, you can find her and her husband Connor hanging out on the river, waterfowl hunting, or hunting big game throughout the Midwest.

Jill Koren

Alabama

Dog Trainer Jill Koren

Jill Koren is a full time upland guide and dog handler from November through March in Alabama. During the summer months, she and her partner, Bob, travel the United States with their string of pointers, vizslas, and English cockers.  After years of managing preserve kennels, she now focuses on her own dogs and trains a few others on board, living full time in a 5th wheel camper. When guiding hunts or picking birds she handles her own dogs and kennel/client dogs. She recently has joined the Wildrose team and will be training in Wisconsin during the summer of 2023. Jill enjoys exploring new parts of the country with her dogs and finding new adventures

Ruth Weiss

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Wife, Mom,Grannie, Friend.
NAVHDA Sr judge.
Dog lover.
Dog trainer.
That’s me!

Kata Miller

Henderson, NC

Kata Miller with her 3 Vizslas

My first dog training experience involved training seeing-eye dogs in Budapest and over the course of my career I also worked for groomers and as a veterinary assistant. I changed the lives of unbalanced dogs in Boston, Chicago, Central Wisconsin and Dallas where in 2016, I began working with gun dogs. I graduated with honors from Animal Behavior College in 2007 and established Cave Canis with a focus on Obedience Training and Problem Behavior. I am member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT) and am an AKC Canine Good Citizen Evaluator. As a balanced trainer, I believe that owners can achieve their goals if they take the time to train and to build a bond with their dogs. My family and I are now located on 17 acres in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains in Hendersonville, NC, where we train and raise Wirehaired Vizslas. We test our dogs in both AKC and NAVHDA. During the summer, I focus on training dogs through board and train engagements, group training events and one-on-one training programs. During hunting season we guide at a local preserve so we can take our kids with us as well, who enjoy hunting more and more!

Rustene Pagel

Hurley, WI

Rustene Pagel with her dog

Bio informationOver the last year 20+ years, my husband and I have trained and tested 7 Deutsch-Drahthaars through the JGHV testing system. We are very active in the VDD-GNA and JGV-USA dog clubs, attending 10-15 JGHV events a year. I love hunting with my Drahts (and husband) for ruffed grouse, pheasant, sharp-tailed grouse, ducks, geese, and blood tracking deer. I’ve been hunting deer for 30 years, but started hunting upland and waterfowl in my mid-twenties.

Brittany Formby

Alabama

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I train bird dogs who live in the house along with house dogs too. I am a balanced trainer and love doing evaluations on dogs and handlers. I train different than other trainers as each program I do is tailored to the dog. I believe every dog learns different and that what will work for one dog isn’t going to work for another and I LOVE figuring out what motivates the dog to work for me or finding out what the handlers are doing that is confusing dog. I conduct private lessons as well as board and trains. Got certified May 2023. Training flushing dogs mainly and dabbling in pointers now through my job as a kennel manager. Just now getting into titling.