Misadventures of the World’s Okayest Dog Trainer: 25 Cases to Guide Dog Trainers and Behaviorists in Their Career

by Melissa McCue-McGrath

352 pages, Paperback

Published April 15, 2026

About the author

Melissa McCue-McGrath is a dog trainer, author, and professional problem-solver for quirky pets and their humans.

With over twenty years of experience, she has worked on everything from urban behavior cases in Boston to invasive-species detection dogs in rural Maine.

Melissa is the author of "Considerations for the City Dog" (2015) and "Misadventures of the World’s Okayest Dog Trainer" (5M Books, 2026).

She is the first American resident to be on the prestigious ABTC register in the UK, is a faculty advisor for Victoria Stilwell’s Academy, and an instructor for Grisha Stewart’s Academy!

Melissa is known for bringing humor, honesty, and science to every stage she steps on, book she writes and story she tells.

Reviews

[Christie Bane · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a book for dog trainers! The geeky kind who care about both the human/dog relationship and the politics of the dog-training world. If you're in that category, you will enjoy this book, especially if you are the type of dog trainer who is very thoughtful about dog training and how to treat both people and dogs right. The book is full of funny but also accurate stories about the ways people and dogs can go south and also about how much joy results when we all get it right. I can think of a large number of people I know who would like to read this, and because I don't really keep paperbacks anymore, if any of my work friends/puppy raisers would like to read it, I'm happy to give it to you instead of putting it on the free table now that I'm done with it.