While you still personal staff and animal behavior wendover sound if you like the outdoors. Most ages can train or volunteer. A wonderful place to train your dog. The people there are nice and helpful. It is run by a non profit club of dog lovers. They offer classes for all levels from getting your puppy use to being around other dogs and people, to the begginers class for totally untrained dogs to advanced classes if you are showing your dog or you just want your dog to be the best behaved dog your neighborhood. Classes offered include puppy, beginner, all different levels of obedience, rally, agility and therapy. President Barack Obama, first Obama, daughters and Sasha, and dog Bar Harbor, Maine, on July 17. Readers recently forwarded us email that's been making the rounds for several years. Because it appears to have returned to heavy rotation, we decided to do a few fact checks from among its dozens of claims, all of which are critical of President Barack Obama. Here, we'll check the claim that Obama is paying a pretty taxpayer money specifically $102 a year to keep a dog trainer on retainer. The White House didn't respond to our inquiry, but we were able to piece the story together on our own. Presidents have a long history of family pets, dating all the way back to Washington, who kept dogs, horses and even a parrot. During his presidency, housed enough animals to run a small petting zoo on the south lawn, including 13 horses, six dogs, several cats, and even such exotic animals as a zebra. It's obvious that the family adores but do they spend more than $100 per year to have a dog handler at their beck and call? Suggestions that the Obamas were spending lavishly on circulated at least as far back as 2010. That's when bloggers claimed that had flown solo to Maine a private jet when the family took a trip there, based on article a local newspaper, the which had reported that had arrived a small jet before the Obamas along with the president's personal We and others debunked the claim that flew on his own airplane. reality, the airport Waterville, Maine, could not accommodate Obama's usual airplane, Obama and his staff flew into a different airport on separate jets, one of which carried several members of Obama's presidential staff and The later issued a correction: Today's story about the arrival of the Obamas said the Obamas' dog and one arrived on a small jet before the First Family, but there were other occupants on the plane, including several other staffers. But this wasn't enough to stop pieces of the rumor from morphing into another outrageous claim about Some of these rumors focused on who holds a job known informally as the presidential body man a position that combines aspects of scheduler, valet, and conversational partner. began to work for Obama 2006 and served as the president's personal from 2009 until 2011. That meant that he was at Obama's side almost constantly. Because the listed as 's one and only traveling companion, some bloggers incorrectly assumed that his job was dog trainer. Meanwhile, a 2011 report to Congress confirmed that was paid $102 a year. 's salary matches that listed the chain email. But was far from a dog trainer. His job was to provide any necessary personal assistance and arrangements for the leader of the Free World. The notion that Obama was keeping a dog trainer on retainer for $102 a year is nonsense. tracking 's history, we did find references to one trainer, -Stasiewicz, who trained the dog before his introduction to the presidential lifestyle. -Stasiewicz was known for training dogs who lived among Washington's politicians, including Kennedy's family, who took to her before giving the dog to the Obamas. According to the the Kennedy's worked with -Stasiewicz to determine whether the dog would be suitable for a very busy family with two young daughters. By her own admission, -Stasiewicz was unaware that the dogs' final destination would be the White House. However, according to the Annual Reports to Congress on White House Staff, she was never paid by the Obama