Founder
Owner of "Top Dogg"
Blake “Top Dogg” Rashad, one of the nation’s leading dog experts, speakers, and philanthropists developed a passion for dog training at a very early age. At 12 years old, he started walking, playing with, and training neighborhood dogs. When a professional dog trainer offered Top Dogg (aka “Dog Boy” at the time) an opportunity to train dogs at his local facility, Top Dogg was pleasantly surprised to discover that he had a natural instinctive understanding of how dogs think. Thus began his dog-training career.
Top Dogg then enlisted into the United States Army where he was again offered an opportunity to train K-9s for military purposes and was able to train all over the world. His training was extensive and classified. Once out of the army, he became a police officer and began training dogs for the City of Atlanta police department. He successfully trained the City of Atlanta’s first three drug dogs, who made notable drug busts.
After his tenure with the police department, Top Dogg began a national career that nurtured his two prominent passions: Disabled Veterans and Children with Disabilities; in 2011, he founded the Top Dogg K-9 Foundation a non-profit that trains Dogs.
His broad range of experience and knowledge includes dog training: obedience, agility, tracking, protection, patrol, bomb detection, drug detection, repelling, airdrops, seeing impaired, Down Syndrome, autism, PTSD, TBI, companionship, and much more. He loves all breeds of dogs from small to large, but his favorite breed of dog is the Giant Schnauzer, which he affectionately calls the “Elegant Protector.”