T.C. (T. Cappel) was born and raised in South Louisiana, where she says "music and dancing are learned while still in the womb". She lives by the "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" philosophy. Her teaching techniques are geared toward having a good time and learning something in the process.

She took dance lessons early on in life and taught dance and choreography throughout her teens and on into her adulthood. She's skilled in Jazz, Tap, Disco, Jazzercise and Belly Dancing. T.C. is a Yoga practitioner, and don't be fooled by her petite size, she's also schooled in martial arts.

A Top Dog instructor T.C. teaches "Canine Freestyle" which is her favorite class where every Wedneday night she keeps dogs and handlers up on training floor and on their toes. She is also our demonstrations coordinator working on projects big and small. T.C. is available for workshops and truly gives it her all when she is teaching. Freestyle Handler's Movement is one of her specialties and can help add great new moves to your freestyle routine. She has given freestyle workshops in Austin Texas, Arizona and Oklahoma.

T.C. loves nothing more than performing, she and her dogs have performed numerous freestyle demonstrations in the Dallas area. In 2005 she performed Freestyle at the SAFE Animal Fair in Tucson, Arizona. Last year July she and Shrek her newest pup performed "I'm a Believer" in front of a hugh crowd in Houston at the Reliant Dog Show. This year Shrek & T.C. performed a country routine to "Black Horse and Cherry Tree" at Harlingen's Rio Fest for their 25th Anniversary. Bringing the sport of Canine Freestyle to people who have never seen this is something very exciting and rewarding.

T.C. is a member of Heart of Texas Therapy Dogs and Therapy Dogs Inc. Having completed well over 200 visits, she loves to entertain the people she visits with dog tricks and Freestyle performed
by her therapy dog, File'.

T.C. will help you and your dog to sharpen skills in Freestyle and
free-flowing body movement so that your performances are well integrated and
you appear to your audience to be working together as a real team.

Melissa Dailey, a Dallas Texas native, is a veterinary technician working at Sherrill Veterinary Hospital in Coppell Texas sherrillvet.com for the past 10 years. Special interests in vet medicine include reproduction, pain management and behavior counseling. Melissa's obedience training started while she was in her early teens training the family pets by attending group classes. Family breeds included a Yorkie, German Shepherd and Springer Spaniel. Melissa's first dog to own and train as an adult was "Mocha" a Chesapeake Bay Retriever. Mocha and Melissa accomplished many awards competing in AKC obedience trails. It was through training Mocha, back in the late 1980s, that Melissa met Pam Martin. Melissa and Pam started training and showing their dogs together; eventually they started teaching classes in the early 1990's. In 1995, Melissa and Pam along with Lou Lehrmann formed Top Dog Racers a small competitive flyball team. Training for and competing in the sport of Flyball has been a passion since.

Most recently Melissa & Spy (Jack Russell Terrier) were chosen to be on Animal Planet's "Pet Star". Although they did not win they did wowed the judges and audience with an incredible act of balance and strength.

Today Melissa shares her home in Carrollton Texas with husband George Dailey a vascular ultrasound tech, and 5 dogs. Her dogs are like family to her they include: Spider a 10 year old Border Collie, Indy 11 year old Border Collie, Remi 9 year old Border Jack, Divot 6 year old border collie and Kix a Jack Russell mix is 6yrs.

Karen and her husband Eric, four dogs, and two cats live in Lucas. Both Karen and Eric are engineers at Texas Instruments. Karen has been a member of Top Dog Racers Flyball Team since 1997 and serves as Events Tournament Director. She has trained all four of her dogs to play flyball (1 lab and 3 border collies), and has helped out many of her teammates by handling their dogs as Karen is a Top Handler. Karen and her dogs also compete in agility and frisbee, and some who still find time to participate in canine freestyle dancing too. Karen spent her first 5 years in Texas as an active volunteer at Operation Kindness, and was the founder and chair of their annual Dog Day Afternoon event.

As a hobby Lou started obedience training in 1985 with her Rottweiler puppy. From then on she was hooked! After 17 years working for the Plano ISD she decided on a career change to pursue her love for working with dogs. Lou is top notch obedience instructor and we are very glad to have her. Lou enjoys attending obedience, flyball and freestyle seminars to learn all she can and to become more knowledgeable in order to help others.

Lou is a founding member and is a team captain of Top Dog Racers, a top ranking flyball team. She and her border collies have earned multiple flyball titles.

Lou and her dogs have dabbled in competitive obedience, conformation and sheep herding. Lou is loving her newest canine sport of freestyle dancing with "Blade".

Lou's family is a big part of her life and loves be a full time mother and wife. When not traveling to dog shows they enjoy horseback riding at the farm.

Verjean has been involved with dogs, literally, her whole life. Her father had Boxers and Cocker Spaniels when she was growing up, and she got her “own” dog at the age of seven. That dog, a little mixed breed…was to live until the age of nineteen and was her first experience in dog training!

Verjean has a varied background in dogs…having trained in Obedience, Schutzhund, Therapy, Field, and most currently, Conformation. She has experience with several breeds, having owned GSD’s, Shar-Pei, Bearded Collies, Old English Sheepdogs, Weimaraners, Rottweilers, Dobermans, Great Danes, and Chinese Pugs. She also coordinates Canine Good Citizen training for the Greater Collin Kennel Club, and is their Rescue Parade Coordinator. She is currently the President of the Great Dane Club of Greater Dallas, is a board member of the Trinity Valley Weimaraner Club, and an active member of the Greater Collin Kennel Club.

She most recently finished her Great Dane, completely owner handled. He is a multiple BOB winner, and Group placer. Verjean is a huge supporter of the owner/handler…and her goal is to bring more owner/handlers into the sport, and to help them be competitive and successful. Her skills with both dogs and people translate into confidence and knowledge in the show ring for those competing.