Starting her animal training career at 7 years old with hamsters in "book mazes" , then moving onto parrot training, at 25, Martha Hoffman eventually got her first dog and has continued with personally training hundreds of dogs in agility, tracking, film acting, obedience, Schutzhund/IPO and service dogs for hearing impared, Cancer Detection and Dogs for Diabetics. "Lend Me an Ear", (available through http://www.dogwise.com/)a text on selecting and training service dogs was written by Martha, who continues to work for the Hearing Dog program at SFSPCA. Her first malinois, Amok Ot Vitosha ("JECKYL")SCH3 ,was an international Schuthund competitor several times for the US World Team. Now, with GOTCHA Ot Vitosha, her present hearing dog, Martha is training for MR1.