16/08/2026
It is with great sadness that I have to announce the Sally Jones, founder of Dogs R Dogs passed away suddenly last week.
Sally was an amazing person, she touched the lives of so many people and their dogs, improving their quality of life and enhancing the relationship between handlers and their dogs.
I have been privileged to know Sally and have her as a mentor and friend for over 25 years. Her generosity of spirt, sense of humour and outrageous sense of fun, brought joy to many challenging situations.
She readily shared her insights about dog training with anyone who was interested and she was at the cutting edge of dog training and behaviour for many years.
She wrote under the nom de plume of ‘Perennial Starter’ in the Agility Net magazine for many years anonymously bringing fun and pithy observations to the agility community for years before coming clean once she stopped writing.
She helped me immensely as my ‘Grammar Nazi’ when I was writing my books and selflessly gave her time to help me start my writing career.
Her love of agility kept her very busy, training her own dogs, teaching others and volunteering her time as a judge and ring party in many, many shows over the years. She was always happy to muck in to keep the shows running.
She taught in many countries and was chef de keep for the Italian and Swiss Agility teams at the WAO Championships.
Just recently she helped with the script writing for the film ‘All Because of Hitch’. Her talents knew no bounds!
From Dogs to Pigs to Chickens, she had clicker trained them all. Her passion was working out how to help people and dogs who had particular challenges that were out of the norm. She thrived on solving problems and she has been an amazing sounding board for me when I was struggling to work out issues with challenging dogs.
She will be missed for this, and so much more, by so many people.
Her legacy will live on with so many of us and I hope to do her proud as I continue with Dogs R Dogs.
The world lost one of the best last week.
Rest In Peace Sally
