Annie was born and raised in small town MN. At a young age she started helping her mother raise Collies and Poodles and began training her own toy poodle for 4-H obedience and agility shows at age 7. She continued competing in 4-H and AKC obedience until high school. In high school sled dogs became her passion and she spent her free time helping a neighboring sled dog business in the care and training of Alaskan Huskies.

After college Annie moved to North Carolina and began a training internship at Tarheel Canine. She spent over a year learning many aspects of dogs training including Search and rescue, bomb, cadaver, and narcotics detection, obedience, patrol, personal protection, aggression issues and behavior modification.� During her time in NC Annie trained two of her own dogs.

Mingo is a certified Search and Rescue man trailing Dutch shepherd and Zombie the German Shepherd is certified in narcotics detection and currently working for a Protection Sport Association title.

In her spare time Annie enjoys spending time with her husband Justin, church activities, working with her own dogs, drawing, reading and being outdoors.