About Us
Cass Rocha CTDI, IAABC, FFCP, Canine Good Citizen Evaluator, International Dog Sports Dock Diving Judge
Head Trainer/Owner
Cass is the owner and head trainer at Focus Dog Training. Her career started in 2017 when her family dog began struggling with reactivity through helping him to handle his emotions and trust in his family, she fell in love with behavior modification and dog training. Today she has a degree in Animal Behavior from Thiel College, is a certified Trick Dog Instructor through Do More With Your Dog!, an Accredited Dog Trainer through the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants, is a Fear Free Certified Professional and is a Canine Good Citizen Evaluator.
She is the proud owner of three dogs who help her every single day Van Zant, Dover and Sixx
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Van is my sport dog, my soul dog and my best friend. We compete in dock diving, barn hunt, fastCAT, Rally Obedience, agility and weight pull, For Focus Dog Training his job is as a neutral dog. He helps dogs who are afraid or a little too over excited about dogs how to be calm and collected around other dogs!
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Dover is our gentle giant. He is a 120 lbs Great Pyrenees who competes in fastCAT. But his biggest passion is helping with puppies! He is my active socialization dog who teaches puppies how to appropriately react to other dogs.
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Sixx is the newest addition to the Focus family. She is a Cane Corso who is my next sport and demo dog prospect. We will be doing fastCAT, Conformation, Disc, Dock Diving, Rally Obedience and weight pull
Ashley and Kya
Ashley is a dog trainer is training! She’s currently working towards and studying to become certified. Her Australian Shepherd, Kya, helped her dive head first into the dog training world when she came home with some major reactivity almost 6 years ago! Together they’ve overcome a ton of obstacles and work hard everyday to expand Kya’s world, safely. They also enjoy using Kya’s Aussie brain to learn tricks together, Kya knows over 25 tricks! Ashley’s true passion is everything dogs… from training, to muzzle positivity & education, to enrichment & play, and just being an overall advocate for them.
Autumn Pelopida and Goose S.T.A.R Puppy, CGC, CGCA
Autumn has a strong educational background in psychology while getting her degree in Speech Pathology. Goose her poodle mix has taken almost every class that Focus Dog Training has to offer and he has achieved his Canine Good Citizen and Canine Good Citizen Advanced titles. They are starting their dog sport adventure with Rally Obedience!
Audrey Byron and Myra TKN CGC
Audrey works mainly behind the scenes and you will likely only see her if you take a class with Myra but she manages our social media, marketing and merchandise! Myra is often found in a group class because as a German Shepherd she likes to keep her brain working!