Bryan Rojas
Trainer
Bryan carries the day-to-day training load on the property — foundation building, proofing, and program work, every session held to the same standard Brian teaches.
A family-run company with a working-K9 backbone — 22 years of behavioral rehabilitation, a national trainer-certification pedigree, and a 20-acre facility built around the dogs, not the brochure.
Brian began training dogs — specializing in behavioral rehabilitation — in 2005. In 2007, he and his best friend and fellow trainer Cory opened Tennessee Dog Psychology in Nashville, with one goal: take the dogs most trainers couldn’t or wouldn’t help. They spent their first years doing thousands of free consultations for rescue organizations and pet owners, cutting their teeth rehabilitating the worst of the worst in aggression and fear-based behavioral cases.
In 2012, Brian stepped away from pet training to intern under a law-enforcement K-9 trainer — a deliberate education in working dogs. Since then, Agoge K9 has grown into a breeding and law-enforcement training program housing more than 30 dogs, with K-9s serving on agencies coast to coast. His ability to read the root cause of a K-9’s behavior — on the job and off — made him the problem-solver handlers call when a working dog stops working.
That same experience exposed how many law-enforcement K-9 problems trace back to poor genetics and breeding practices — and ignited his standard for producing genetically sound, capable working prospects through careful testing and strategy.
Today, Brian trains the trainers: he helped build the national certification program for a leading nationwide dog training company and coaches 250+ owners and trainers across the country every week. Outside the #doglife, he’s into Brazilian jiu-jitsu, music, firearms, good bourbon — and most of all, time with Catie, his wife of 18 years, and their son Liam.
Catie Ferguson is the co-founder of Agoge K9 — wife and business partner to Brian. Her work spans everything that keeps the standard real: detailed administration, facility operations, and the daily care of the extraordinary dogs on the property.
She brings the organizational precision and healthcare discipline of her previous career as a dental hygienist, and keeps expanding it — bookkeeping, optimum canine care, the systems behind the welfare rigor. If a dog is weighed, logged, fed, and thriving on schedule, Catie’s fingerprints are on the system that made it happen.
Her reason for doing this work every day is simple: working alongside her family, and a lifelong passion for animals. Beyond containing the crazy at Agoge, she’s into fitness, hunting down healthy recipes her family will actually eat, and homeschooling Liam — developing his interests one project at a time.
Every dog on the property is trained, handled, and cared for by people who live this work — and hold the same standard Brian does.
Bryan carries the day-to-day training load on the property — foundation building, proofing, and program work, every session held to the same standard Brian teaches.
Abe came to dogs the long way — through horses, where timing, subtle body language, and earning a powerful animal’s trust aren’t techniques; they’re the whole job. A decade on, he’s trained everything from sport protection to family companions and settled where Agoge lives: the aggression and anxiety cases owners were told were beyond help. A former veterinary technician, he reads the whole dog — behavior and body together — because symptoms in isolation never tell the truth.
Tony owns the welfare rhythm of the facility — the feeding, the daily weigh-ins, the spotless kennels, and the around-the-clock care that lets every dog train at their best.
Twenty-two years of working-K9 discipline, behavioral science, and welfare-first principles — distilled into a teachable framework. Every trainer at Agoge learns the Method before they ever handle a client’s dog. Every dog gets the same standard, the same protocol, the same outcome reliability — regardless of who’s holding the leash today.
Two large, climate-controlled training rooms, covered kennel runs, and turf runs. Every dog lives and learns on-site — supervised around the clock, never boarded out.
We work with your dog until you have the dog you signed up for. If we haven’t hit the standard by program end, we keep working — at no additional cost — until we do.