Melissa McCue-McGrath, CPDT-KA

Melissa is a dog trainer and author in Southern Maine who has been peed on in her line of work way more than she'd like to admit. She is a certified professional dog trainer and a behavior consultant since 2005. She is the co-training director of the New England Dog Training Club, the oldest AKC obedience club in the United States. She's had the distinct pleasure to talk nerdy about dogs to patrons of the Museum of Science in Boston, elementary schools around Massachusetts, and to the kids watching PBS's Design Squad.

Melissa has been invited to speak:

• New England Federation of Humane Societies
• Massachusetts Veterinary Technicians Association
• Barks from the Bookshelf (twice!) 
• Massachusetts Animal Conference 
• Tufts University
• MIT
• The Pet Professional Guild
• Raising Canine - an educational platform for dog trainers
• The Woof Meow Show
• DogCast Radio 
• and more!

Her work has been featured in Maine Dog Magazine and Bark Magazine. 

Melissa is a faculty advisor for Victoria Stilwell's Dog Training Academy, a trainer at the Animal Welfare Society in Maine, formerly a senior instructor at MSPCA, and a canine sports instructor at Everydog Training Center in Danvers, MA. She published her first book, Considerations for the City Dog, in 2015 and is finishing up a book geared to dog trainers about all the things "they" don't tell people who want to work with animals when they grow up. There are a lot of stories about urine and other bodily functions in that book. Much like this podcast.