About Our Trainers
Meet The Off Leash K9 Team
Rick ROberts - HEAD Trainer
Rick Roberts is a graduate of West Virginia State University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He was a retail manager for many years before he decided to follow his real passion for dogs. Rick grew up with German Shepherds, and has always been interested in dog obedience and behavior. This interest was sparked by the fact that his great grandfather was a breeder, and his father worked with K9’s in the Air Force. Rick is an avid outdoorsman, and all his pups love hitting the woods or water with him frequently.
Dave Dobbins - Trainer
Dave Dobbins is excited to be a part of the Offleash K9 family. A native of Alabama, Dave has called North Carolina home for most of his life. He spent 30 years teaching in North Carolina’s public schools, most of that at Southeast Guilford Middle School. During that stretch, Dave served in several state-level leadership positions, and spent time as a mentor, co-op teacher for interns, restaurant chef, and a frequent clinician, presenter, and adjudicator at regional and state music education conferences and festivals.
Dave loves dogs, loves training dogs, and loves helping dog owners have a stronger bond of love, understanding, health, and trust with their K9s. He still frequently finds new parallels between training K9s and teaching school children. Dave and his wife Amy live in Pleasant Garden and have two college-aged daughters. The Dobbinses have a German Shepherd named Saban, a Black Lab named Millie, and they often host their daughter’s Pit Bull rescue, Clementine whom they like to call their “grand-pupper.” In addition to dogs, Dave loves hiking, cooking, biking, fishing, traveling, and all things Alabama football. Roll Tide!
Mark Gordy - Trainer
Mark Gordy found his passion for training dogs while in the military as a K9 handler. He has been working with dogs since 2010 and working with pets since 2018.
He is married with 3 kids who love to assist him while training dogs. He has called Mocksville, NC home ever since he got out of the military in 2017.
Mark has worked with a variety of dogs from the smallest puppy to 150+ pound dogs.
Mark loves working with behavioral modification in all aspects including fear, aggression and anxiety.
About Off Leash K9 Training
Dog Trainers that Are Recognized Around The World!
Photo: A&E
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!
