About Our Trainers

Susie Aga

Owner/Trainer

Susie Aga CPDT is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer through the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers. Aga is also a Certified Canine Behavior & Training Specialist receiving her certification from Triple Crown Academy, a world leader in pet education. She has 20 years experience with dogs and is recommended by over 45 Veterinarians in the Metro Atlanta area.

Susie was chosen by Turner Broadcasting to be their featured "Pet Expert". You can find her on their web site: Pet Expert Story.

From there, follow Susie Aga' Pet Expert link and it will take you to puppy/doggie helpful hints page. Susie Aga is also the host of a talk show called “The Animal Hour". It is on every Tuesday at 2pm on AM 1620. You can listen to the show on-line at www.radiosandysprings.comor tune in here for a live broadcast via Media Player: The Animal Hour. You can also call in for our sessions on Q & A or just to add your thoughts on the topics at hand. The number is 404 -943-1620. Feel free to email her at susie@atlantadogtrainer.com.

Susie is also the “Pet Expert” for Pet Doctor Online. She is interviewed by veterinarians regarding many behavioral issues and their solutions. The discussions are directed towards behavioral problems such as separation anxiety, cage aggression and other hard to define issues facing many owners and their dogs. The shows are also archived for your convenience. 

Susie is also a regular expert guest on Dog Cast Radio based out of London England and listened to world wide. Listen to an interview on "aggression" .

Being a Behavioral Specialist Susie was chosen on several  occasions to be a guest speaker at Georgia State University.  She is a reoccurring guest lecturer for the psychology department at the university.  Her lectures on canine behavior and the similarities of conditioning behaviors in humans and animals are often included in the professors testing at the end their semesters.   Susie has also been asked by several other schools such as The Howard School in Decatur to be the pet expert.  She has been chosen to  teach the professors, at the school,  behavior modification techniques she developed as well as training them in her obedience courses with their personal dogs. Susie was a columnist for Petlanta, Dog’s Life and Dog World magazines where she wrote monthly article on training, pet tips and other helpful hints for people and their pet. Her Articles on training and behavioral issue and their solutions are published on various web sites.

Susie is a AKC registered Canine Good Citizen Evaluator. Aga was asked to join HOPE an Animal Assisited Crisis Response organization. She is a team leader and evaluator for the organization and manages handlers and their dogs on disaster call outs. Her dog Hezikia is a certified therapy dog and frequents hospitals, assisted living homes and anywhere else comfort from a dog might be needed. Susie was the head trainer for the film " A Dog Named Fifi" featured at this years 2008 Film Festivals. Watch the web site for information on the doggie fashion show, where Susie will be the featured “Animal Wrangler” airing on the Turner Broadcasting Network [TBS] shown nationwide. She has completed her certification for CERTS and is an active member of The Community Emergency Response Team of Georgia. Aga is a certified FEMA [Federal emergency Management Agency] responder as well.

Susie is a member in good standing with the Association of Pet Dog Trainers. Her training includes, but is not limited to Basic through Advanced Obedience, Off Leash, Agility, Aggression Management and Behavior Modification. Susie's specialized training includes Severe Behavioral and Aggression cases, Special Odor Detection, and Tracking Work.

She has seven rescue dogs of her own and donates much of her time and services to Rescue Organizations. You can truly say her life has gone to the dogs and that is just the way SHE WANTS IT!

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judge by the way its animals are treated" - M. Gandhi

Angie

Lead Trainer

Angie is an Aggression Management Specialist who has been working with dogs for over a decade. She apprenticed with Atlanta Dog Trainer and graduated to being a Canine Behavior and Training Specialist.  She has worked tirelessly to achieve an understanding of aggressive dog behavior and educate owners on how to manage their behavior. Angie is completing her Bachelors of Science in Biology and educates herself on new training methods and techniques by going to various seminars and reading as many books on animal behavior as possible.   She has studied pack mentality and operant conditioning extensively and is very knowledgeable on all types of behaviors and there solutions.

Angie’s life has certainly gone to the dogs; she lives with three dogs and spends her time doing dog related activities. She spends her personal time on moderating a breed specific web site.  She is constantly fostering hard to handle dogs in order to make them more adoptable. She fosters for different organizations and takes in the worse cases and rehabilitees them then finds forever homes for her protégés.

 Angie is a strong animal advocate and she has done a great deal to educate the public on how to handle abused and rescued dogs. She lectures at school, neighborhood meetings, women’s clubs, animal shelter and pet stores to educate children/adults about how to handle a dog’s behavior issues and give realistic solutions.  She also lectures on the importance of socialization and understanding pack mentality and she works constantly to educate adults as well as children on animal behaviors.

Sonja

Sonja has an inborn love for all animals especially dogs, horses, and cats. She has been studying dog behavior, and behavior modification for 15 years.  She is a graduate of Animal Behavior College and is a certified behavior modification and obedience training specialist. Sonja apprenticed with ADT and is now an obedience trainer and an aggression management rehabilitator.  She also holds a master level title in agility with her dog Neige. Sonja teaches our agility classes as well as the obedience courses.

She is the board and train department director and head trainer for all the dogs that come into our board and train program. She lives in the  dog-house on our property in Alpharetta where our training facility is located. She has broad knowledge working with a diversity of dogs in a variety of situations.  She has been a foster mom for Miniature Pinchers for many years.  Sonja also donates her time to help abused and neglected dogs.  She volunteers her training services to help shelter dogs so they can be placed in a good home.

Sonja lives with her 5 dogs Neige, Alaia, Nyles, Gizmo and Mora.

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beatof his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
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Marc

In-Kennel Director Certified Trainer

Marc R, the owner, operator and co-founder of Petport Boarding Kennel, is a Certified Pet Obedience Instructor. He received his certification from world-renowned Triple Crown Academy in Hutto, Texas.

Marc is the head of Atlanta Dog Trainers in-kennel training programs.

Marc has over 30 years practical experience handling and training all types of dogs. He principally teaches basic obedience and behavior modification, but has trained dogs to do everything from getting the newspaper to sneezing on command.

Marc and his wife Nancy have operated their kennel in Fulton County, Georgia since 1996. Long time animal lovers, they currently live with five dogs of their own and a cat is trying to adopt them as well.