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CONTACT Nancy Hook Widener 14934 Taylors Mill Rd. Zebulon, NC 27597 252-235-2545 Write Us! 
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| The Trainers |
Nancy Hook Widener is a Canine Behavior Specialist. She began working with dogs professionally in 1983, after a lifetime of study of canine behavior and a 10 year career in counseling adolescents and their families in crisis. The two fields have proved to be very similar.
Nancy has titled 4 of her dogs in AKC obedience trials, as well as coaching many of her students to successful competition levels in obedience and conformation. She has competed in terrier trials, assisted in hunting retriever tests, and organizes and evaluates AKC Canine Good Citizen tests.
On the working dog side, Nancy is a Search and Rescue (SAR) K9 Trainer.
She has also worked training law enforcement canines under a Master Trainer. Nancy is trained and certified in K9 Unit Management and as a SAR K9 Training Instructor. She has trained and evaluated water search and wilderness canine/handler teams at seminars in many eastern states.
Since starting in SAR in 1993, Nancy has trained and handled 4 of her own wilderness SAR K9 partners and one cadaver K9 partner. Though retired from search and rescue work, she continues to train scent specific trailing dogs and cadaver dogs (land and water) privately.
Nancy is a past member of the Durham Search and Rescue Team, NC Search and Rescue Dog Assn., Dunn Rescue Squad STAR (Special Tactics and Rescue) Team, and the R.E.D.S.(Rescue, Extrication, Delivery Specialists) Team in Garner, NC, serving on both the search and technical rescue divisions. She is a certified Emergency Rescue Technician (ERT) and a NASAR certified SARTech II.
"Old dog trainers never die, they just drop on recall!"
To talk to our trainers
call 252-235-2545.
The trainers
for Hook's
K9 Training
are Nancy Hook Widener
and
Lindsay Hook.
Lindsay Hook and what appears to be a dog in a cat costume!
Lindsay Hook was born into a dog training life. She was taken to dog training classes from the time she could walk, and was handed a leash (with dog attached) at age two. She learned to socialize puppies, and helped with the Rottie pups Nancy bred, as well as being used by family friends to socialize their litters. By the time she was six years old, she had her own dog to train, and continued to accompany Nancy to all her classes. She showed her border terrier in conformation classes and terrier trials, and helped to show and trial the border terriers of one of her mom's friends. She has laid trails for search and rescue dog training since she was seven years old, learning to stay alone in the woods at night, waiting for the K9 to find her and bring the handler in.
She is 22 years old now, an accomplished trainer. She frequently handles dogs in Nancy's classes, and assists with private training at Camp Hook.
She has a baby son, Sean, who's first word will probably be WOOF.
"I ain't from the South, but I got here as fast as I could!"