Marsha Serio

Canine Karma welcomes Marsha Serio as an instructor.Serio holds a bachelor's degree in education from the University of Toledo. Her professional career of more than 30 years included appointments as Director of Human Resources for the City of Toledo. She retired from Bowling Green State University in 2012, where she served as Director of Employment and Employee Relations.She has been actively involved in Greyhound rescue for more than 20 years. During this time she was a board member of several local Greyhound rescue groups, most recently serving as President of North Coast Greyhound Connection. Serio founded a cooperative program with the Toledo Correctional Institution for placing foster Greyhounds in the institution. The Greyhounds lived with and were trained by the inmate/handlers under her supervision. She and her husband have fostered more than eighty dogs in their home.Following her retirement from BGSU in 2012, she began to pursue her passion of training and handling dogs. In 2018, she earned her Certified Professional Dog Trainer (CPDT-KA) certificate. Knowing that she needed hands-on application of the learning theory which is the foundation of the CPDT curriculum, Serio apprenticed with Tina Ferner, CPDT-KA at Canine Karma, completing her apprenticeship in 2019.She and her two certified Therapy Dogs, Fancy Pants and Chip were active volunteers for more than six years with Therapy Dogs International. She and her Greyhounds Dale and Hazel have competed in AKC and CWAGS Rally and Obedience trials.She is a certified American Kennel Club Canine Good Citizen evaluator and is able to administer theSTAR Puppy and Canine Good Citizen tests. In 2017, she became a certified evaluator with Therapy Dogs International. She administers the Therapy Dog tests at Canine Karma. She is a professional member of the Association of Professional Dog Trainers (APDT).