Liz Randall

Elizabeth, or Liz, Randall grew up in San Diego, California, and has lived and worked with animals since early childhood. Growing up in a dog- and horse-centric family, she was an avid, competitive equestrienne by age nine. In her mid-thirties, she discovered dog agility, and that changed her career trajectory from sports marketing to living wholeheartedly in the animal training world. From riding ponies to Baskin Robbins at age five, to working with a herd of more than 100 horses on a guest ranch in Wyoming in her twenties, to flying across the country to compete in New York City at the Westminster Agility Championship with her rescued pit bull mix Phineas, she truly understands what it means to have complex and fulfilling relationships with animals.

Using the most current, positive reinforcement-based training methods, Liz has held her Certified Pet Dog Trainer credential (CPDT-KA) since 2011, and works regularly with both high level behavior modification and canine sport clientele. Liz competes locally and nationally in agility with her dogs. Her dogs have achieved many wins across a variety of agility venues at local, regional and events across the country. She also competes with and has titled her dogs in AKC obedience, NACSW and AKC scent work, barn hunt, and lure coursing. 

Agility is Liz’s first and foremost passion. She and her dogs have won podium spots in Grand Prix, Biathlon and Steeplechase at multiple USDAA Regional events in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022. In 2019, Liz and Beatrix won the UKI Games Challenge National Championship at the UKI US Open of Agility. In 2021, Liz and Beatrix were overall Cup winners at the UKI West Coast Cup, and also won multiple classes at the UKI US Open. In 2022, she and her young dog Rhoen were overall winners at the UKI Rocky Mountain Classic. 

Liz works with clients in the San Diego, California area, at private facilities across the US, and also online. She loves to teach her students the intricacies of learning theory, how to better read their dogs, and technical training mechanics. Her mission is to help dogs and their humans achieve higher levels of communication, not just with each other, but with those in the greater world around them.