Rucker Dog Training of Cumming

Rucker Dog Training of Cumming is a dog training business in Cumming, GA. The business offers obedience training through group classes and Board and Train programs, serving families across North Georgia with services that range from beginner obedience to off-leash work, alongside puppy head start classes, private lessons, and foster and trained puppy placements. More than 12,900 families have gone through their programs, and the business runs 15 or more classes each week across three locations, with new online classes added to the schedule.

Scot Rucker, the head trainer, started his first obedience classes at his family's business Rucker Pet and went on to teach at Happy Dogs Play and Stay in 2014 before founding Rucker Dog Training in 2017. The business moved from Gainesville to a larger Cumming facility in the summer of 2022. The training menu covers Board and Train, classes, private lessons, board and review sessions, puppy head start, and virtual consults, with a separate Rucker Retrievers service dog program and a TLC pet food line also offered. In 2019, Scot partnered with the Forsyth Sheriff's Department and the Forsyth Animal Shelter to launch the Pups with Purpose program inside the Forsyth County jail, which trains shelter dogs for adoption and gives inmates life skills. That program has produced a first group of therapy puppies now serving at agencies and schools in Forsyth and Hall counties. Scot has served on the board of the Forsyth Humane Society since 2015 and currently sits as its president. He initiated the HSFC Friends of Nina Program for at-risk dogs and serves on the Forsyth County Bite Board. He also runs Mission Syrah Paws, a volunteer therapy dog group whose dogs must pass the AKC Canine Good Citizen Test administered by Scot.

The facility sits along GA-400, about four tenths of a mile from Settingdown Reservoir Number 56 and roughly seven tenths of a mile from Settingdown Creek, with Jot Em Down Road and Black Mill Creek both under a mile away. Camden Academy is within walking distance at about nine tenths of a mile.

For families in Cumming, the depth of the Board and Train programs and the breadth of weekly classes make Rucker Dog Training a practical choice for North Georgia dog owners.