Cheryl is the founder and owner of E-Training for Dogs, Inc. She oversees all curriculum and faculty. She teaches the NAVHDA courses at ETD. Dr. Aguiar is a Senior NAVHDA Judge. The NAVHDA offices she has held as a chapter member are: Test Secretary, Training Director, Webmaster and Newsletter Editor. She organized the workers for the 2004 NAVHDA Invitational, and has worked at every job during testing including: bird planter, lunches, host judges, pick up or drop off judges, gunner, field marshal, bird steward, etc. She has also helped at the Invitational testing as a Field Marshall.
Cheryl has titled dogs in NAVHDA Natural Ability, Utility and the Invitational. She has also titled dogs at the Senior and Master Hunter level in AKC. Before working with the Versatile Hunting Dog, she had put 2 Tracking Dogs and 2 Tracking Dog Excellent on dogs in addition to teaching Tracking in Lake Elmo, Minnesota many years ago at the Animal Inn. Cheryl also put 4 Companion Dogs on dogs plus 3 Companion Dog Excellent on dogs. She is also a breeder of select German Shorthair Pointers: Outlander GSP. In the 1980′s, she used to train and test in Schutzhund bringing 2 dogs to Schutzhund I and II and one dog to a Schutzhund III. She held the office of training director for the Twin City Working Dog Association for several years in the 80′s. Cheryl has served as the “helper” (bite suit) for the St. Paul and Minneapolis K-9 Police Department in her younger years. The tracking and obedience work are equally as exciting to build in a dog. Most importantly Cheryl has hunted for over 40 years. She is an avid outdoors person who also considers her number one hobby training her dogs, there is nothing more enjoyable to her than hunting behind a great versatile dog. Courses currently taught by Dr. Aguiar are: NAVHDA: Natural Ability Tracking Training and NAVHDA: Utility Duck Search