Rachel Stroud Anderson only began owning dogs when she became an adult. When she was attending the University of Georgia for a degree in Music Education, she adopted her first dog Sasha. She immediately began learning about dogs and dog behavior. The classes she was taking at the time (educational psychology and learning theory) started to have some overlap with her hobby of training Sasha. 

Amy is a skilled dog trainer and behavior consultant who enjoys educating dog owners and highlighting how brilliant their dogs can be. Her approach to dog training is effective, kind, and injected with fun. While she enjoys teaching foundation behaviors and troubleshooting challenges her passion is trick training. Tricks are more than to make people laugh. They can lighten everyone’s mood and shift gears for dogs who already have good manners.

When Amy isn’t training other people and their dogs, she is spending time with her Briard named Poison Ivy aka “Ivy”. They compete in a variety of dog sports including Barn Hunt. Ivy is also working on her Expert Trick Dog Title with DMWYD and Elite Performer with AKC.

Amy is also a AKC Evaluator – CGC and Tricks.

Rachel Emery has been passionate about dogs and dog behavior for many years and jumped at the opportunity to work full time with the dogs of Canine Country Academy as the daycare and boarding manager starting in the summer of 2012. After the closing of our daycare and boarding services she transitioned to auditing and assisting in a variety of classes at CCA.