About Anne Nichols (formerly Buckley)
In addition to her experience in corporate marketing, Nichols has been involved in many aspects of dog care, rescue, and performance events. After adopting her first dog in 1991 Nichols became an active volunteer for Greyhound Placement Service of NH and logged hundreds of hours working in the forty dog kennel. She currently serves as vice president of the organization and runs their nonprofit specialty website GreyhoundGoodies.com.

Nichols has been training dogs for many different types of events since 1992 and has extensive experience in canine pack behavior, training techniques and methods, canine health and exercise, and overall dog behavior. Her personal dogs have all competed and titled in showing, agility, obedience, lure coursing, and amateur racing. She has finished multiple champions, both in performance and confirmation, with her dogs ranking among the top ten lure coursing and amateur racing dogs in the country. Nichols currently shares her home in Dover, NH with her husband Aaron and their six dogs. She continues to stay active in the dog community.

About our Groomer, Lauren Isabelle

Lauren has been grooming dogs full time since 2001. She loves all animals and they love her right back! A dog owner since 1998, she now has two poodles, Jettson and Kairi. Lauren began her training in 1998 as a participant in the Animal Science program at Dover High School. In 2005 she furthered her education at Windy Hill Kennel College of Gilmanton, NH. She took courses in grooming, training, and kennel management and graduated at the top of her class. She began her career at a kennel in NH and until recently, managed a large and well known grooming salon in Portsmouth, NH. Lauren is familiar with all breeds and mixed breeds and is of course, a poodle specialist.

About our Daycare Staff

Coming soon!

About our Training Instructors

Obedience Instructor, Michele Houghton

Michele has been a greyhound owner since 1989 when she adopted her first racing greyhound. At that time she became a volunteer and later began placing greyhounds from her home in 1992 for GPS. Since that time she has grown from six dogs to forty and has been a leader in the organization for the past eleven years. GPS is now one of the larger placement organizations in the New England area.

Michele has extensive knowledge of dog behavior, pack mentality, and training. She is the group's expert for personality testing the dogs and matching them with prospective adopters. She manages the kennel's daily operations, greyhound care, placement, and acquisition from the trainers and kennels.

Michele has been an all breed dog trainer since 1994 working with some of New England's top trainers. She continues to offer both obedience and agility classes for greyhounds and other breeds and remains extremely involved in many types of dog related activities. She is affiliated with many different organizations namely, American K9 Country, Souhegan Kennel Club, and Gazehounds of New England, all of which are in Southern NH. Michele has achieved high results competing with her own dogs in many different activities. She has trained and shown in obedience, agility, lure coursing, and amateur racing. Many of her dogs are titled and have been named as top dogs in the country.

Agility & CGC Instructor, Nadine Perry

Nadine Perry is a certified agility instructor by the White Mountain School of Agility run by Julie Daniels. She has taught Agility and Canine Good Citizen for the past 15 years for various clubs and private businesses. Nadine graduated from UNH with a degree in Fine Arts. She has worked in psychology for 18 years as a counselor and is familiar with behavioral science. She uses this knowledge in her approach to teaching believing in a gentle positive approach with rewards for good behavior. Having fun is what it is all about!!