Dog Training, Done Right at The Dog Wizard Oklahoma City

Scott and Gale Templeton both had successful careers in corporate America prior to focusing their skills in the pet industry. Scott was a division manager for 7-Eleven and held senior operating and marketing positions with Tosco, Phillips 66, Conoco Phillips, Shell UK and Mobil. He did consulting work on four continents for Shell International, Exxon Mobil and ERG Petroli. He did strategic marketing work for GTech and Intellimat, an $18-million Virginia start-up. He started his professional pet career in 1993 with Petropolis, a $2-million-a-year, 22,000 square-foot facility, capable of boarding more than 300 pets daily. Over the years, he has designed, built or operated nearly 20 professional pet facilities, including the Rowan County Animal Shelter and the Boyd County Animal Shelter. In his career, he has supervised more than 260,000 pet stay days.

Gale Templeton began her professional career with grocery facilities. She worked for Kroger and other grocery companies in a retail, wholesale and vendor role. While at Kroger, she served as a store manager and moved into a corporate merchandising role. She also worked in sales and marketing in the staffing industry and the food service and supply industry. In 1994, Gale joined Petropolis in a management and marketing role, overseeing nearly 10 PetCare Advisors on staff, the Grooming Academy School and Hidden Fencing Division.

Her dog Asa (ASCA CH, ATCH Shalako's Windchaser) is a ASCA Hall Of Fame Sire. He has direct off-spring that have garnered more than 22 advanced titles in five competitive disciplines. Her dog Yuma (Asa's son) is a North American Dog Agility Council Hall of Fame Competitor, with six Champion Agility titles to his credit. Gale has 16 and counting agility championships to her credit.

Gale has competed in conformation (U.S. and U.K.) and titled in competitive obedience, rally, herding, barn hunt, dock dogs and agility. Gale has qualified and participated in ASCA Nationals and NADAC Championships 10 times. Over the years, Gale has put more than 100 titles on the dogs. She has been conducting training classes at Tin Woof Inn since 2007.

Amanda is the proud owner of The Dog Wizard Ashland and has been professionally training dogs since 2006 after graduating from Animal Behavior College. Her passion for dogs began in childhood and has only grown stronger over the years. From the moment she started training, she knew she had found her calling - helping dogs and their owners live happier, more balanced lives together.

With nearly two decades of experience, Amanda has worked with dogs of all breeds, ages, and temperaments. Her calm, confident approach and deep understanding of canine behavior make her not just a skilled trainer, but a true advocate for every dog she meets.

Outside of training, Amanda is a devoted wife to her husband Joshua and proud mom to two beautiful girls, Selah and Miah. Family, both human and canine, is at the heart of everything she does and it shows in the care and dedication she brings to every dog that walks through her doors.

Steve Zorn has been involved with dog training for more than 20 years. Steve has always had a passion for animals from a very early age. He sensed a special bond with animals from childhood with the family dog, friends'' dogs and cats, and the many other animals he encountered on family and friends'' farms. His lifelong thirst for knowledge pertaining to animals and animal behavior is insatiable.

Since his early 30's Steve has been involved in rescue work, where he co-founded and ran an animal rescue for 16 years. In this time Steve rescued, rehabbed, trained, and found permanent homes for well over 1000 dogs. Many of these were rare breeds, or, breeds deemed dangerous. He quickly became the go to guy for many abused, neglected, and homeless dogs that ended up in shelters and county pounds in the Midwest. Steve's passion has always been with the animals that were ignored or deemed too difficult to bother with. He counts these as his greatest successes. Steve has also been a mentor to other animal rescue organizations offering advice on training, behavior, and, management of dogs and cats.

The breed Steve is most passionate about is the German Shepherd Dog. He has owned, trained, and competed with German Shepherds for 25 years in local, regional, and, national events in several very demanding competitive dog sports. Steve is a previous member of Topline German Shepherd Dog Club, a founder of, and the original President of Turner Junction Working Dog Club, as well as Vice President and co-founder of Yorkville Schutzhund Club. Steve has also trained several German Shepherd Dogs prior to them being accepted at police K-9 academies where they then became full-fledged police K-9's.

Steve also ran his own dog training business in the Chicagoland area, and, then again in Nashville, TN and Phoenix, AZ. While in Nashville Steve also worked with one of the inventors of the very difficult Vapor Wake Training Method for Explosives Detection Dogs.

Presently, Steve still enjoys training and competing with his German Shepherds and has more recently dabbled a little with dock diving. His passion also remains with rare breeds of dogs, as well as Livestock Guard Dogs utilized on farms.

Steve's best advice to all dog owners is to build a strong bond with your dogs based on mutual trust, and, learn how to understand what your dog is thinking, especially in difficult or stressful situations.