Melissa McCue-McGrath, CPDT-KA

Melissa McCue-McGrath is a dog trainer, behavior consultant, presenter, and author. She earned her dog training certification through CCPDT in 2008 and has been working with dogs in sports, manners, and behavior since 2005. She served as the co-training director of the New England Dog Training Club, the oldest AKC obedience club in the United States, from 2012 – 2023. She is most proud of the work she did that allowed her and her dog, Captain Love, center stage to talk nerdy about dogs for three weeks to thousands of visitors to the Museum of Science in Boston in February 2020. She has focused her work in recent years on the effect of the environment on companion dogs and wrote the book, “Considerations for the City Dog.” She is the creator and host of the BewilderBeasts podcast (now in its sixth and final season) and has been invited to speak about dogs at Tufts, MIT, Barks form the Bookshelf, Raising Canine, the Pet Professional Guild and more. Her approach to training, which is evident in all the classes she teaches at AWS, is based on humor and science.