Sue Sternberg is the founder and director of Rondout Valley Animals for Adoption, a local not-for-profit open admission animal shelter in upstate New York.
Sue is an expert in dog aggression and an innovator in the field of shelter dog welfare, and she develops programs to prevent pet relinquishment and overpopulation, to match families with safe pets, and to help shelters attend to the mental health of the animals in their care. Training Wheels®, a mobile community outreach program, and Assess-a-Pet™, a method to evaluate animal temperament, are two popular programs developed by Sue. With more than 23 years of experience, she shares her knowledge of dog behavior on radio and television shows, as a popular speaker at national humane and dog training conferences, and through books and videos.

Jane Kopelman is the Shelter Manager at Rondout Valley Animals for Adoption and the Director of the Training Wheels® Program. Jane was a behavior counselor at the ASPCA in New York City where she was responsible for evaluating shelter dogs, teaching dog training and volunteer classes and manning the Behavior Helpline. She is an evaluator for the Delta Society and works with her own therapy dog Wally in school programs. She has lectured on dog training and behavior at conferences across the country.

For the last several years, she and Training Wheels® founder Sue Sternberg, have been taking the Training Wheels outreach program across the country.

4628 Route 209
Accord, NY 12404
phone: 845.687.7619
email: info@suesternberg.com