Our Staff

Owner/Head Instructor: Kim Collins

Background: Kim has been training dogs for over 30 years. She owns and operates Pawsitive Steps Canine Sports Centre in Prince George, BC, a training facility dedicated solely to the promotion of positive, training techniques for pet and performance dogs.

Kim’s teaching background comes from spending 20 years as a dance teacher and choreographer. She now devotes herself full time to helping people and their dogs develop positive relationships through education, training and canine sports. 

Kim competes has been competing in agility since 1996. Kim has had an impressive agility career over the last 30 years, winning both the USDAA National Agility ChampionshipCanadian National Agility Championships along with 15 Regional Agility Championships with five different dogs to date.

She has been an AAC Masters level agility judge since 2000. Kim has also competed in CKC Obedience and CARO Rally Obedience earning multiple titles with multiple dogs.

Continuing Education:

Kim continues to contribute her knowledge back to the agility community she loves by traveling and teaching seminars all over Canada as well as teaching online to students all over the world.

She also hosts an annual Agility Campfor all levels of agility enthusiast. To ensure that her seminar content is always the most up to date training methods, she regularly attends seminars and workshops presented by many of the top agility handlers and trainers in the sport.

Competitive Career:

1. Won the USDAA Nationals in 2001 with her sheltie Piper
2. Has won 15 AAC Regional Agility Championships with 5 different dogs
3. Has won 4 Canadian National Championship
4. Was a Member of the Agility Association of Canada’s 2004 IFCS Canadian World Team with two of her dogs, Bryn and Feyd
5. Was the Captain and Coach for the CKC Agility Team Canada 2010 and 2011.
6. Was the Coach for the 2011 WAO Agility World Team competing in England May 2011.
7. Qualified second overall for the 2017 Canadian European Open Team
8. Was a 2018 World Agility Open Canadian Team member and silver medalist and placed 6th overall in the Games Biathlon.
9. Kim and Fenway earned the Pentathlon win on spot at the 2018 UKI Canadian Open and placed first overall for points in the 24” height class for the 2019 Canadian WAO team.

Kim’s book “From the Ground Up” an agility foundation training manual, came out in July of 2006 and can be ordered through Dogwise. Kim has written articles on the sport of agility for both Clean Run and DogSport magazines and teaches online as well as in person

You can visit her website at www.pawsitivesteps.ca

For more information on her Online classes please email kim@pawsitivesteps.ca

Sheri - Agility Instructor

In 2006 Sheri got her first puppy Reggie – a golden retriever and started taking classes at Pawsitive Steps. She quickly got interested and involved in Canine sports and started taking basic obedience, rally and agility classes.
Reggie became a certified therapy dog through St. John’s Ambulance when he was just 2 years of age. He works at the Cancer Lodge in Prince George with her mom – Joyce as well as being one of the few dogs in Prince George that is certified to work with kids. Sheri and Reggie work in one of the local schools with children weekly. He has also participated in many regional agility events and even placing 5th place podium when he was 10 years old. He also achieved his Agility Trial Champion of Canada Title.

In 2008 Sheri got a ½ sibling to Reggie – a golden retriever named Josie. Josie proved to be quite challenging with many issues ranging from fear of everything, shut down, and separation anxiety. Believing that Josie would never participate in canine sports due to her fear issues – Sheri kept training her in an effort to build her confidence and give her better life skills. When Josie turned 4 she actually had enough confidence that she was able to compete in agility. Josie is still competing in Agility and is just a few short runs short of her Agility Trial Champion of Canada Title.

In 2012 Sheri added a third dog to her family – a border collie named Ted. Ted turned out to be a high drive and busy border collie. Ted became a certified therapy dog through St. John’s Ambulance when he was 18 months of age. He also works at the Cancer lodge in Prince George and enjoys dressing up for the patients on a regular basis. He is well on his way to becoming a successful agility dog.

Sheri is very interested in the science behind dog training and continues to attend seminars with international presenters regularly. Sheri’s upbeat personality and genuine interest in the “why’s" behind dog training makes her a fun and informative trainer

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Katherine - RallyO Instructor

Katherine began training Rally Obedience and agility at Pawsitive Steps with her first two dogs, Baxter and Casper in 2006. Both dogs achieved titles in Rally, with Baxter earning his Versatility MCL title shortly before his retirement. In 2011, Amber was added to the family. She scored a perfect 200 in her very first Rally trial, and has gone on to earn Advanced and Team titles as well has being one of the first dogs in Canada to achieve a Rally Brace title paired with her friend Phinn. In 2015 Victor came to live with Katherine and Amber and he has titled in Rally as well.
The latest addition, in 2016, was Spice, currently in Rally training.

In addition to Rally Obedience, Amber, Victor and Spice train and compete in agility, dock diving and nosework. All of them have earned a number of titles, most recently with Spice earning not only her Master Dock title, but also an invitation to the National Dock Diving championship in Orlando, Florida.
Katherine and her dogs love learning and training in a fun and positive way, free of any aversive techniques. Amber, Victor and Spice are first and foremost valued family members and best friends

Kim T - Hoopers Instructor

Kim started her dog training journey in 1995 doing obedience with her first dog - Tekarra a Cairn terrier, while she lived in Northern Manitoba. Kim and her family moved to Prince George and watched the AAC Nationals when they were held here in 2003. In 2007, 2 Norfolk terriers joined the family - Spencer and Mistaya.

Kim joined Pawsitive Steps and started her agility journey adding, Wicklow, her first border collie, followed by 2 more border collies, Kaza in 2016 and Saska in 2021 to the mix.

Kim is grateful for Kim Collins knowledge and patience while she learned how to train and play agility. Kim has competed at the National level in agility with her dogs with Kaza winning Gamble round 2 and Saska winning the Biathlon Overall top dog at the 2025 AAC Nationals.

Kim loves the training process - foundation work, skills training, and proofing and enjoys the problem solving that is inherent to the training process.

Pawsitive Steps added Hoopers to the list of dog sports and Kim started teaching Hoopers in 2024 and became a Hoopers Canada judge in 2025.

Saska and Kaza have both earned BPDC, BTDC, BCoT Hoopers titles.