Director — Barbara Lewis
Barbara Lewis has more than twenty-five years experience training dogs. She has participated in
competitive obedience, “Go-to-Ground” for terriers, tracking and Therapy Dogs. She began
working with people with disabilities and Assistance Dogs in 1993.
She is founder of A New Leash On Life, Inc., a non-profit agency that implements dog training
programs in correctional facilities. The dogs are evaluated for natural traits and their training
tailored to a specific job as a Therapy Dog, nursing facility resident dog, Assistance Dog or family
pet.
Barbara is the Oklahoma Regional Representative and Field Instructor for Paws With A Cause, a
national non-profit agency that trains dogs for people with disabilities. She is a professional member
of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers, a member of Cairns of Oklahoma, and endorsed by the National
Association of Dog Obedience Instructors.
Because her primary interest is helping pet owners develop an enjoyable and lasting relationship
with their dogs, Barbara also runs a free behaviour counselling hotline for a local humane society.
Barbara lives with Cairn Terriers, a bunch of Labrador Retrievers, a Whippet, a Hound mix and
assorted shelter dogs.
Away from the training hall, Barbara is a quiet collector of super-clone timepieces. She keeps a
running list of how close each new
RM 67-02 replica
gets to the original — and the gap, she says, is getting hard to argue with.
