Amber Aquart CPDT-KA
Celebrity Certified Animal Trainer, Pet Expert, Live Performer, TV personality, & Content Creator.
Amber has made it her mission to provide reliable, easy to understand content for pet owners online.
After working with and training exotic animals for several years, Amber started training dogs professionally in 2011. She started her own training & hiking company, Pawsitive Development, and helped thousands of dogs and their owners build a better bond through training.
She wanted to reach and help even more people, and so she turned to social media to share educational, inspiring, and entertaining content focused on helping people have better bonds with their pets.
As a certified animal trainer, she has made a commitment to provide the most up-to-date information regarding our pets through continued education.
Amber is an experienced speaker, live performer and entertainer, TV & Podcast Personality, and educator with over 13 years of experience professionally training dogs and over 2 decades of experience with animals of all kinds.
Amber and her dogs have appeared on Animal Planet, Good Morning America, The Dodo, NBC, ABC, People Magazine and many more on-air segments and news articles.
In her spare time, Amber enjoys traveling and hiking with her pets and husband and competing in dog sports such as agility, scent work, frisbee, and dock diving.
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Certified Professional Dog Trainer - Knowledge Assessed
Service Dog Academy Graduate
Certified Trick Dog Instructor
Champion Trick Dog Trainer
American Kennel Club Evaluator
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Dog Sport Titles in:
Agility, Frisbee, Scent-work, FastCAT, Dock Diving, Barnhunt, Conformation, Rally, Obedience, and Trick Dog.
Invite to NADD Nationals, 3rd place at NADD Regionals
#1 Trick dog of the NSDTR Breed
Amber’s Animals have starred in over 50 different films, TV shows, print ads & more
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Speaking engagements:
Decoding Your Dog Summit 2023
With a Dog Podcast - Dog Anxiety Society
With a Dog Podcast - Cats & Dogs
With a Dog Podcast - Moving w/ a Dog
The Social Dog Podcast
TV Host of “Cat Week on DogTV
Zippy Paws DogMom Podcast - Dog Training Q/A
Speaker at Do More with your Dog Tridex 2020
The Pet Summit Speaker 2020, 2021
TV Host of The Dog Moms show on DOGTV
Host of The Dog Moms Podcast on DOGTV
Top Pet Influencer Panel @ Super Pet Expo
Top Pet Creator Panel @ Global Pet Expo
TV Host of Global Pet Expo 2024, 2025
Meet the rest of the Crew
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Tucker
The one who started it all
Adopted April 3rd 2012 - Forever in our hearts Feb 2024
Tucker was Amber’s first demo dog who struggled with anxiety and reactivity. He taught Amber everything she knows and helped her rehab hundreds of dogs. He was an amazing teacher and we miss him every day.
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Oakley
The GOODEST boy
Adopted Feb 9 2015 when he was 2yrs old.
Oakley is Amber’s full-time service dog and an experienced Animal Actor. He is the goofiest and most lovable dog who is obsessed with Sloths and everyone falls in love with him the moment they meet him. The most perfect boy ever.
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Whiskey
The Golden Girl
Born 10/19/2020
Whiskey is the first dog that Amber has ever raised since a puppy. She has been training ever since the day she came home, which shows through Whiskey’s wide variety of skills and achievements. She is the #1 Champion Trick Dog of her breed, a service dog, sport dog, animal actor and social media star.
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River
The joker of the family
Adopted in 2020
Mister Foster Fail officially joined the family when we realized we couldn’t let him leave. He keeps us on our toes and is always getting into something. He has worked on movie sets and print shoots. River is known as the comedian in our house always provides us entertainment.
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Finnigan (Finn)
The cat that made us Cat people!
Adopted in 2019
He is the youngest titled trick cat in the world. Even though he may be shy in front of the camera, he makes his presence known by pretending like he’s a tough guy when he’s actually just a big softy.