Dog Training, Done Right at The Dog Wizard St. Louis

Scott and Gale Templeton both had successful careers in corporate America prior to focusing their skills in the pet industry. Scott was a division manager for 7-Eleven and held senior operating and marketing positions with Tosco, Phillips 66, Conoco Phillips, Shell UK and Mobil. He did consulting work on four continents for Shell International, Exxon Mobil and ERG Petroli. He did strategic marketing work for GTech and Intellimat, an $18-million Virginia start-up. He started his professional pet career in 1993 with Petropolis, a $2-million-a-year, 22,000 square-foot facility, capable of boarding more than 300 pets daily. Over the years, he has designed, built or operated nearly 20 professional pet facilities, including the Rowan County Animal Shelter and the Boyd County Animal Shelter. In his career, he has supervised more than 260,000 pet stay days.

Gale Templeton began her professional career with grocery facilities. She worked for Kroger and other grocery companies in a retail, wholesale and vendor role. While at Kroger, she served as a store manager and moved into a corporate merchandising role. She also worked in sales and marketing in the staffing industry and the food service and supply industry. In 1994, Gale joined Petropolis in a management and marketing role, overseeing nearly 10 PetCare Advisors on staff, the Grooming Academy School and Hidden Fencing Division.

Her dog Asa (ASCA CH, ATCH Shalako's Windchaser) is a ASCA Hall Of Fame Sire. He has direct off-spring that have garnered more than 22 advanced titles in five competitive disciplines. Her dog Yuma (Asa's son) is a North American Dog Agility Council Hall of Fame Competitor, with six Champion Agility titles to his credit. Gale has 16 and counting agility championships to her credit.

Gale has competed in conformation (U.S. and U.K.) and titled in competitive obedience, rally, herding, barn hunt, dock dogs and agility. Gale has qualified and participated in ASCA Nationals and NADAC Championships 10 times. Over the years, Gale has put more than 100 titles on the dogs. She has been conducting training classes at Tin Woof Inn since 2007.

In addition to being the son of Dog Wizard franchise owners Scott and Gale Templeton of Tin Woof Inn (Frankfort, Morehead, and Ashland KY, respectively) Chris has been a resident and business professional in the St. Charles and St. Louis county area since 1984 and knows this area well, having watched its growing development as its population has grown and seen its communities needs change over that 35+ years. Personally located in St. Charles city close to Highway 70 with facilities for boarding, training, and pet development, Chris has extensive entrepreneurial experience in customer service in the real estate, and finance industry in addition to being a loving and caring pet owner his whole life who is conscientious of pet owners concerns and how to answer any pet owners questions they may have. In this regard, we look forward to serving our community and welcoming you to the Dog Wizard family!

Amanda has been behind the scenes at The Dog Wizard STL since our beginning. She's always loved animals''especially of the canine variety?and has never been without at least one pup in all her years. Together, she and Chris share 4 incredible dogs. Her family dog, Chewie, the Chow-ChowWheaten Terrier and 2 Russian Blue felines, Dudley and Phoebe live in the STL metro with her mom and brother. After a 20-year career in floral design and small business management, Amanda made a wholesale change and ventured into the dog industry. She has years of education in business and marketing with a degree-in-progress at Lindenwood University. movie; antiquing and shopping, cuddling with her pups, and adventuring with her other half, Chris.