High Country Working Dogs

Attn Colorado Friends: Ro’s memorial service is being held tomorrow, Friday 3/27/2026 6:30pm at The Dog Wizard in Fort Collins. All are welcome 🖤♥️

Ro’s Celebration of Life is tomorrow, March 27 6:30-9pm. At our facility, 1833 E Harmony Rd, unit 16, Fort Collins. Come as you are to celebrate his life and the incredible impact he made within our community 💜

Reminder to please leave pups at home, we are anticipating lots of humans!

If you are near Minneapolis this Friday, 3/20/26, please join our friends up at Twin Cities PSA for an amazing bite night honoring our Romario Romain. We can’t think of a better way to celebrate him than doing what he loved, working dogs and being with working dog people. All proceeds will go toward funeral expenses and helping his family.

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Guest Decoy Scott Sharfman is joining us this Friday March 20th!

Twin Cities PSA & Canine Evolution
Memorial Fundraiser Bite Night
In Memory of Fellow PSA Handler, Decoy, and Friend Romario “Ro” Romain

This event is a memorial fundraiser with 100% of proceeds going directly to Romario’s family during this incredibly difficult time.

Working Dogs

$100 minimum donation per dog

Any donation amount is welcome if you would like to support without working a dog

Donations can be sent via Friends & Family on PayPal: [email protected]

Dogs will be worked by PSA Certified Decoys Scott Sharfman and Matt Seha.

Time & Location

Friday, March 20th – Starting at 4:00 PM and going until we’re done.
If you are able to come earlier in the evening, please do — this helps leave space later for those who cannot arrive until after work.

Canine Evolution
Princeton, MN

Bring a chair!
We will be meeting outside, with a backup option if weather becomes an issue.

This event will replace Open Club on Saturday so we can come together as a community to support and remember Romario.

Sign up for your dog here: https://form.jotform.com/260753487015156

Guest Decoy – Scott Sharfman

Scott Sharfman is a certified PSA trial decoy with extensive experience in PSA trials, personal protection, and American Schutzhund. He is skilled at reading dogs under pressure and helping handlers develop clear, confident working dogs for sport.

We sincerely thank Scott for donating his time for this worthy cause and helping us honor Romario’s memory.

In Memory of Romario

Romario Romain was dedicated trainer with The Dog Wizard and an active member of the PSA community who tragically lost his life alongside his dogs.

Ro was known for lighting up every room he entered and for his generosity with both his time and knowledge. He made countless people feel welcome in the working dog community and left a lasting impact on many dogs and handlers. This event is in memory of Romario and his dogs Moni, Xander, Zyn, and Jyn.

Yesterday our brother, Romario “Ro” Romain, passed away in a tragic car accident. His dogs — Mo, Jyn, Xander, and Zyn — were with him and passed as well.

To know Ro was to love him.

For many of us, this club is more than a place we train — it’s family. We spend countless hours together, going through life side by side. Over the years you see every side of a person, and you learn who they truly are.

Ro was truly one of the best human beings on the planet.

He showed up every day smiling, cracking jokes, and lifting everyone around him up. Even when he was going through things of his own, his positivity never left him. He believed in us — as a team and as individuals — and he cared deeply about every dog and every journey.

As a decoy, he was powerful yet fair.
As a trainer, he had incredible feel and knowledge, and he never stopped learning or sharing what he knew.

Watching Mo, Jyn, Xander, and Zyn grow with him has been an honor. If our dogs are a reflection of us, then his reflection was as beautiful as it gets.

More than anything, Ro was the kind of person the world needs right now. He respected everyone, didn’t gossip, always tried to understand others, and truly loved the people around him.

One of the hardest parts is that he was just stepping into his prime — personally and professionally. His future was so bright.

It doesn’t feel fair.

This morning in Colorado we woke up to snow and gray skies. It feels like even the weather is mourning him.

We are so grateful for all of the messages, calls, and prayers.

Rest easy, Ro. We will carry your light forward.

Thank You 🙏

To our incredible sponsors, raffle donors, family members, friends and dog sport community - we thank you for your help in getting us to the start line of our very 1st regional championship.

It is an honor to represent the west coast this weekend in the sport we all love. Especially right now, in a time when it can feel like the world is on the doorstep of protection sports with pitchforks.

No organization, sport, club or competitor is perfect - but it sure feels good to compete in a sport where folks are walking their talk by letting our dogs do our talking. It sure feels good to walk into a trial and feel welcomed. It sure feels good to have a judge that is fair with the pen but inside their heart- they’re pulling for you to achieve your goal. It sure feels good to have decoys with the skillset to build on a training field and test on the trial field. It sure feels good to have a club director who believes in leading by example, on and off the field. It sure feels good to walk on the trial field knowing people believe in you.

It sure feels good to be at West Coast Regionals “Mile High Madness”!


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🔦West Coast Regionals + Mile High Madness Sponsor Spotlight…

✨TOP NOTCH K9 EQUIPMENT

We are very excited to have TNK9 as an official sponsor for the 2025 PSA West Coast Regional Championship AND Mile High Madness 5!

When trainers think of top-tier dog training gear, they think of Top Notch K9 Equipment. They provide everything you need—from durable collars to advanced harnesses and bite sleeves. Whether you’re training a playful pup or a skilled working dog, TNK9 gear is trusted to deliver results. High Country club members choose Top Notch because the gear is reliable, lasts and they always get it to you quick!

Top Notch K9 is a trusted & authorized distributor for the top brands in dog training equipment.

https://topnotchk9equipment.com

💪 Thank you for being part of the madness and for backing the PSA community!

PSA West Coast Regionals Sponsor Spotlight: 🔦

We are thrilled to have Landshark Supply’s support this year! PSA dogs train hard and our equipment takes a beating. Which is why quality, well made gear is so important to us. Founded in 2016, by 2 friends with a love of working dogs and design. Choosing Landshark means not having to worry about your gear breaking down on you while looking great. Be sure and head over to their site to check out what they have to offer…

https://landsharksupply.com

🔦2025 PSA West Coast Regionals Sponsor Spotlight:

We are so thrilled to have K9 Kirby as an official sponsor of the 2025 PSA West Coast Regional Championship AND Mile High Madness 5 Club Trial! Josh Kirby is well known in the protection sports community as a phenomenal decoy, competitor and craftsman. K9 Kirby stands for top quality gear. Many of our club members have Kirby collars that have gone through multiple dogs at this point. That says everything about Kirby K9’s standards. Whether you are in need of decoy equiptment, agitation collars, handler gear or want to take your decoy skills to the next level by attending the Kirby K9 decoy school - head over to https://www.k9irby.com for the best of the best!

We are incredibly proud to Congratulate TEAM HUCK on earning their PDC this weekend in Canada at the 1st ever Canadian PSA Regionals Championship weekend! What a storybook beginning for Kelsey & Huck to start their PSA journey with our friends in UK9BG 💫. Watching this powerhouse today, it’s hard to believe that Huck is Kelsey’s first working dog. Keep your eyes out for Kels & Huck in the future because this team will do big things. Congratulations to Kelsey & Huck! There’s nothing like your 1st PDC, we can’t wait to celebrate this amazing moment with you back in Colorado.