Our Team
- Certified Master Trainer, North State Academy
- Janet and her dogs have been featured multiple times on national media including CNN, CBS, ABC, Disney, etc.
- 3x PSA National Champion
Janet Dooley Edwards
 Bio – Janet Dooley Edwards
Janet has been a certified Master Trainer from Tarheel Canine Training, Inc since 2001. Taking notice of her potential, Janet was offered a trainer’s position at the academy, located in Sanford, NC. Tarheel Canine is a world-renowned training facility and one of the largest in this country.
Janet ran the pet obedience program at Tarheel Canine, specializing in severe behavior modification (aggression, shyness), and took that program to the highest level in its history. She had the opportunity to work with some extreme cases of shyness and aggression for “last chance” dogs, providing them (and their owners) a life they never thought could happen. Along with training the pets and their owners, she instructed student trainers looking to start their own dog training careers. Her students have not only come from the United States but from all over the the world such as South Africa, Portugal, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia and more. Many of her students now have successful training businesses of their own. Janet then began training SAR and police K9s for detection (narcotics, explosives), patrol and man trailing along with instructing their handlers. She has trained 100+ active dog teams working the streets for local, state and federal agencies throughout the United States. She spent 3 years managing the North Carolina training facility, directing all trainers and programs. She relocated to Hanover and started Stateline Canine in 2011. She has a GSD, Jaro, certified in cadaver recovery that she uses on a volunteer basis for law enforcement. And a Belgian Malinois, Zuko, which she competes with in the protection sport of PSA. Zuko has earned his PSA1, PSA2 and PSA3 titles; only 8 other teams have accomplished this in the history of the sport. Janet is only the 2nd female handler to earn this title. Not only has Zuko earned these titles but he is the ONLY dog to have been a National Champion at every level in the sport; 2007 PSA1, 2009 PSA2 and 2012 PSA 3 National Champion. Janet and Zuko are also certified in narcotics detection and work with Dogs Finding Drugs providing private detection services. They have been featured on several local and national news/tv shows with Dogs Finding Drugs including Good Morning America, Fox News Channel and CBS’ The Talk.- Certified Master Trainer, Professional Obedience, Behavior Modification, & Search & Rescue, North State K9 Academy, 2001. Owner & Head Trainer, Basic Training & Beyond, Winston-Salem, NC 2001-2003.
- Assistant Trainer, Tarheel Canine Training, Inc. 2003.
- Head Instructor, North State K9 Academy, Pet Obedience Program, 2004.
- Member, Tarheel Canine PSA & Police Dog Association December 2003 – current.
- Assistant Instructor, Police K9 E-Collar Applications, Tarheel Canine Training, Inc. Sanford, NC, April 17 & 18, 2004.
- Assistant Instructor, 16 Hour Police K9 Decoy School, Tarheel Canine Training Inc. February 4-5, 2005.
- Assistant Instructor, Advanced Detection, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD June 2005
- Assistant Instructor High Risk Deployment Seminar, Asheboro, NC May 2005
- Certificate SARTECH 3, NASAR April 2005.
- Head Trainer/Instructor, Tarheel Canine Training, Inc. 2005.
- Member & K9 Handler, FAS-Trax, SAR Team 2004 – 2005.
- Certified Police Dog Instructor, NSK9, September 2005.
- AKC Canine Good Citizen Evaluator 2003-2006.
- Professional Member, IACP.
- Professional Member, INEOA.
- Professional Member NTPDA
- Evaluator NTPDA 2006-present
- Air Force Military Dog Handler
- K9 Unit Head Trainer and Commander, Baltimore PD
- Multiple time PSA National Select Decoy
- 25+ years of experience
Shawn Edwards
Bio Data – Shawn Edwards
Janet has been a certified Master Trainer from Tarheel Canine Training, Inc since 2001. Taking notice of her potential, Janet was offered a trainer’s position at the academy, located in Sanford, NC. Tarheel Canine is a world-renowned training facility and one of the largest in this country.
Shawn has been handling K9s since 1994, spending time as a MWD handler in the Air Force and then working for Baltimore City PD for over 20 years. While on the BPD; he was a K9 Handler as an Officer and Detective Sergeant. He was the K9 Unit’s Head Trainer and Unit Commander. He has been involved in PSA since 2002 as a decoy and handler. As a decoy has experience building dogs all the way up to a PSA 3, has been a National Select Decoy numerous times and has been a judge since 2014. He too is in the PSA Hall of Fame. Shawn has also developed a very successful course for developing effective training decoys.- Certified Master Trainer,
Tarheel Canine Training - Puppy Raiser, The Seeing Eye
- 6 years of experience
Mykala Mantz
Bio – Mykala Mantz
Mykala’s journey in dog training began in 2014 when she started raising puppies that would go on to become Seeing Eye dogs. It was during that experience that she discovered her natural connection with teaching dogs and her desire to dive deeper into training as a career. In 2018 she attended Tarheel Canine in North Carolina where she was certified in obedience, behavior modification, detection, tracking and patrol work.Upon her certification she began her career at Stateline Canine where she has worked hand in hand with hundreds of dogs and their families to give them the best relationship possible for life.
- 7 years of experience
- Specialist in behavior modification
Chris Hunt
 Bio – Janet Dooley Edwards
Chris Hunt, has been training dogs for 7 years, the last 2 of which has been at Stateline. He joined Stateline in 2019 to apprentice under Janet and Shawn Edwards. His passion is behavior modification and developing solid communication between dog and owner. Chris is also an expert in working dog training including detection, tracking/trailing protection and much more.
