Camp Counselors (2010 Staff)

Each day camp will have three of the instructors listed below:

Karin Damon:
Karin took one of the first classes at Barking Hills Country Club years ago with her Golden Retriever, Keebler who earned his Versatility Title (Agility, Obedience & Tracking) in March of 2006.   Karin is presently competing and has titled in agility, obedience and tracking.  She is the Head Athletic Trainer at Centenary College, and was selected to work at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games in the equestrian venue.  Karin became certified as a Pet Tech First Aid and CPR Instructor in San Diego, CA.  She is also working to complete her Canine Rehabilitation Certification from the University of Tennessee.

Susan D. Greenbaum:
Susan is the owner of Barking Hills Country Club in Lebanon, NJ which offers classes for pet owners, draft work, lure coursing, rally, agility, competition obedience & animal assisted therapy. Barking Hills trains and handles dogs for film, commercials and television including ‘Saturday Night Live’. She is the Executive Director of Dogs In Service, Inc. (DIS) a not for profit company that trains a limited amount of Service Dogs for people with disabilities and runs a supervised, goal oriented and documented Animal Assisted Therapy program at St. Joseph’s Children’s hospital. One of the DIS service dogs and three therapy dogs have been given awards by the New Jersey Veterinary Foundation.

In 2000 Ms. Greenbam received the Governor’s Volunteer Award for Services to Youth for the program at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital and in 2004 received the New Jersey Veterinary Foundation Award for her work in Animal Assisted Therapy. She is a frequent speaker on goal oriented, documented & supervised Animal Assisted Therapy. Ms. Greenbaum is one of the founding members of the Northeast Crisis Coalition – Animal Assisted Crisis Response. She is a member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers and the National Association of Dog Obedience Instructors.

Donna Luzzo:
Donna Luzzo has been teaching classes at Barking Hills Country Club in Hunterdon County, N.J., for more than six years, and also serves as the trainer for the Hunterdon County Paws 4H club. She has participated in and/or competed in conformation, competition obedience, rally obedience, pet assisted therapy and animal assisted crisis response. She also dabbles in agility, lure coursing and anything else that looks like fun! Donna sometimes works as a dog handler for television and various advertising formats, with credits including Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Martha Stewart - The Apprentice, All My Children, One Live to Live, The Gap, Purina Pro Plan, Adobe, Febreeze, Anthopologie, Target, Claritin and many more. She shares her world with four Miniature Pinschers, Ebony, Winnie, Sebastian and Janey.

Dawn Sullivan:
Owned and operated by 4 dogs, Millie (Hound/Lab mix), Freddie  (9yr old Chocolate Miniature Pinschers), Tweak (Border Collie) and Ash (Border/Staffie MIx). Dawn has competed in, and taught, Flyball for the past 4 years. Red Dawn's Defender, FD, FDX, FDCh, FDCh-S, FDCh-G, FM, FMX (also known as Freddie) is the number 6 Min Pin in the sport of Flyball.

While not competing or training her new pup, you can find Dawn close to home in Methuen, MA playing with her dogs, reading, or with her face 4 inches from the laptop screen doing some kind of web development to help supplement her very large dog food bill. Dawn has been a volunteer at Canine University in MA for the past 9 years, teaching beginner, intermediate, and advanced classes in obedience, puppy obedience classes, flyball, agility, tricks, and workshops on heeling, recalls, and getting your dog to stop jumping (but don't go by her Min Pins on that last one - she likes them to jump!) Dawn has studied a variety of training methods while working Millie through Separation Anxiety, but prefers using a clicker for fast, consistent communication with dogs.