Roger Sigler

Roger Sigler, innovator and business entrepreneur for most of his adult life, has always been actively involved in animal training. As an active member of the German Shorthair Club, he field trialed his own dogs for years. In 1968 he started training professionally and over the next 38 years trained hundreds of dog.

Sporting breeds were his specialty; pointers, shorthairs, setters, Labradors, etc. To expand his training as much as possible he spent every year for the next 25 seasons on the Canadian prairie with his string of dogs. His interests in training lead him to work in other training venues, such as Schutzhund, a German discipline focused on guard, obedience and scent work. Roger worked with many of the top scent dog trainers, nationally. He has spent hundreds of hours in seminars and hands-on courses with experts like Marian and Bob Bailey and Ogden Lindsley. He expanded his training knowledge by working with marine mammal trainer, Dr .Jennifer Hurley, Ph.D., at her Marine Mammal Training Center in Moss Landing, Ca.

After years of study and all the while working with dogs, horses, and mules, Roger developed his own technique of animal training. Using no force or harsh treatment of his animal students, has allowed him to gain their trust and co-operation so that they enjoy the task that they are asked to perform.

In 2005 Roger agreed to work with the inmates at the Kansas State Prison on a program called Safe Harbor. The program was designed to rescue dogs from shelters and prepare them for adoption and active family life. At any given time there were 50 dogs being handled by 35 inmates. He worked with the inmates and dogs to help them fit into society. He has also worked with others who had trained everything from bomb detection, drug dogs, and search and rescue. With such a diverse background Roger felt that it would be possible to expand the world of dog training into the sport of shed hunting. Normally in today’s high tech world, all one needs to do is go on line and get all the help they need, but that wasn’t the case with shed dogs. There was no information available. It was his thought that with his knowledge and abilities, certain breeds of dogs could be trained to find antler sheds and today he is proving his belief.

He currently has 15 dogs at various stages of training. Roger was recently featured in North American Whitetail magazine and at seminars at the new Cabela’s outfitters, in Kansas City.  Read the article!

Sharon Sigler

Since retiring from the rigorous world of business, I have had time to devote my full time attention to animal training. While working as a marketing director for a world wide dental products company, I as able to use such skills as writing, public specking and a wide variety of people management opportunities. Along with raising three daughters and maintaining a household, I found time to enjoy my love of animal training.

Married to another animal lover and trainer gave me numerous opportunities to train dogs and my first love, horses. After the children were on their own, it was time to retire from the corporate world and devote full time to animal training.

Like many others, I started back in grade school with 4H projects. I raised and trained everything from a pig to sheep to horses. Horses have been the love of my life and will always be. However, dogs come in a close second. And, married to an advent hunter and hunting dog trainer, allowed us to enjoy our pastime together.

We trained dogs, both hunting and field trial dogs for more then twenty five years. At the same time I trained my own show horses and competed in AQHA shows and more recently in the American Cutting Horse competitions.

Since we retired ten years ago, we have worked with drug detection dogs as well as advanced training in all animal behaviors. We have developed our own resistance free technique of training, The Science of Participative Training.” Using all the information we had accumulated over the years of study, we found a stress free training method that allowed the animal to participate and enjoy the learning process.