ABOUT OUR TRAINERS
Meet The Off Leash K9 Team
Rachel Moseley Bare – Managing PArtner/Supervisory trainer
Rachel Moseley Bare began her time with Off Leash K9 Training as a client 8 years ago. Her Labrador retriever Monte was an incredibly loving and playful 1 year old that carried with him a bit of stubbornness and strong will. Rachel knew his calm demeanor and desire to be around people would make him a perfect therapy dog, but she needed help getting him under control on a leash.
After graduating from Basic Obedience, Monte and Rachel went on to complete Therapy Dog training. That experience as a client helped Rachel realize she had a passion for understanding dog behavior and for helping others achieve a similar life of Off Leash obedience for their dog.
Today, Rachel and Monte spend a lot of time at the Children’s hospital, in schools and among first responders providing affection, comfort and love to a variety of people in need. Now, Rachel also has a 2yo Labrador Emmy who is beginning Search and Rescue and will continue therapy work like her older brother Monte.
Rachel likes learning about clients and helping each one incorporate obedience into their individual lifestyles. She enjoys seeing owners become the pack leader and create happy lives within their homes. There is so much people can accomplish with their dogs and the best part for Rachel is helping them find out how!
Erica Tillger – head Trainer
Erica from Sudlersville, Maryland has always loved dogs. Erica is intrigued by dogs’ ability to learn new concepts and commands. Erica has trained her own dogs her entire life, but seeing others struggle with their dogs time and again made her want to help others.
Erica has her first Border Collie Lottie and a Belgian Malinois Suki. She enjoys dock diving, barn hunts and trips to the beach or hiking with all her pups! Erica has been with the team since early 2020 and through Off Leash K9 Training, she has added many valuable tools into her training tool belt.
Erica enjoys working with clients to help them achieve happy and stress-free lives with their pups!
Marquis brown – Trainer
Growing up, Marquis always had a love for animals and had dreams to be a Veterinarian. As he got older, his love kept growing for dogs, particularly as he grew up around Rottweilers. Learning to train them was a hobby of his at a very young age. Marquis has 3 of his own personal dogs (Bella, Dutches and Fanfoo) who he loves very much as if they are his children. He enjoys teaching his dogs new commands and taking them on adventures with the family.
Being able to work with dogs as a career is a dream come true for Marquis. He told his dad at age 16 that he wanted to be a professional dog trainer. At the time, his Dad did not realize it was even a career! So Marquis went to college to become a teacher and worked in the education field for about 7 years. In his free time, he would help his family and friends train their dogs, so transitioning as a full-time dog trainer was a breathe of fresh air!
Marquis loves making a difference in his clients’ lives that he works with everyday. Ending each day knowing he has helped a family puts the biggest smile on his face and looks forward to continuing to make an impact on others!
Jessica August – Trainer
Jessica August is a former client turned dog trainer. She came to Off Leash needing help with her lab/pit mix Luna. She enjoyed training her dog Luna so much, that she wanted to learn more.
Jessica has been an integral part of our training team since Summer of 2022. She loves seeing the transformation in each dog and absolutely loves seeing how training changes the lives of families and individuals alike. It creates a freedom that a lot of dog owners don’t give themselves or their dog. For her, there is nothing better than seeing a dog live their best life off leash and understand the things we need them to do!
ashley woodman– Trainer
Ashley has been involved in training dogs since 2003. She fell in love with K9 Search and Rescue after 9/11 and began training her first SAR K9. Over the years, she has certified 5 SAR dogs and found a passion in HRD.
Ashley joined Off Leash K9 in the Fall of 2022 when she decided to leave Law Enforcement after 16 years to pursue her passion of training dogs, full time. She currently deploys her certified Border Collies Zip and Nauti on search missions while also living with her 2 retired SAR K9’s Riot and Toka (German Shepherds) and a third Border Collie Silly and livestock guardian dog Betty (Great Pyrenees).
For Ashley, seeing clients understand the value of the work they do with their dog and finds immense joy in helping client’s foster strong bonds with their companions.
alicia stewart– Trainer
Alicia’s animal career started with the goal of becoming a veterinarian. She was introduced to the dog training and breeding world by a professor who brought her Border Collies to class. She got a job dog-sitting those same dogs and taking one or both of the Border Collies to the college football games each week as the dogs went out to fetch the kicking tee after each kick-off. It was then that Alicia decided that training dogs was the way for her. Interning with that same professor led Alicia to begin to train service dogs to help people with disabilities.
Alicia has two dogs, Wraith a yellow Labrador Retriever, and Kraken a fawn Cane Corso/Pit mix. She loves big dogs, the bigger the better, and has plans to add more large breeds in the future.
For Alicia, seeing dogs learning and having the lightbulb moment when they truly begin to understand what their owners are asking and seeing. Then also seeing the same sense of achievement on the owners’ faces when they realize just how much their dogs are capable of are the best parts of dog training.
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Nick White is the Owner and Founder of Off Leash K9 Training. Nick is a former US Marine and former US Secret Service. He currently has over 130+ dog training locations throughout the United States.
Nick is globally recognized as being one of the top dog trainers in the world. He has 2 official world records in off leash obedience, named on Wikipedia as one of the top 20 dog trainers in the world, recently named top 10 trainer in the world by bestdogtrainers.org, has been featured in many magazines and shows, and he is regularly requested by the top celebrities and athletes! He has been called upon by people such as actor Ryan Reynolds, WWE’s John Cena, MLB All Star Max Scherzer, UFC World Champion Jon “Bones” Jones, and many more!
You can visit our YouTube Channel and watch over 1500+ before/after videos of Nick and his team’s work! Off Leash K9 Training has more documented videos than any dog training business in the entire world!