My name is Bob Adams and I am one of the founding members of Penn Ohio Working Dog Club. My wife Kathy and I got our first German shepherd dog in 1976 and fell in love with the breed. We joined a schutzhund club in 1991, and I was given an opportunity to begin to learn about doing helper work. I was lucky enough to travel to Germany to look for and acquire my first schutzhund dog. This first dog taught me so much and he was a very special dog. I was able to show him a couple times in the nationals, and together we won our share of trials, but the best part of our partnership was that he defined for me what a great German shepherd dog should be. I have been looking for a dog like him ever since. We started Penn Ohio Working Dog Club in August of 2000 and have enjoyed helping others achieve personal goals as well as the wonderful friendships we have made along the way. I breed German shepherd dogs under the Kennel name “vom Haus Mariacher” and my goal is to breed dogs with my kennel name in 4 generations. My goals as a dog trainer is simply to learn as much as I can about canine behavior and to help others appreciate how much fun training and spending time with their dogs can be. I was fortunate along the way to be exposed to people successful trialing their dogs from whom I learned a great deal. I feel it’s my turn to help others in the same manner. I am currently training a female Enchi vom Karlmitblick and hope to compete with her at the nationals and will start a new male puppy soon.