With over 20 years training dogs professionally, I have had so many amazing experiences. I spent 16 years as a Police Dog Handler working 3 General Purpose Police Dogs and a Fi****ms Support Dog, 5 years as an ACPO (now NPCC) Accredited Police Dog Instructor for both General Purpose Dogs and Drugs Detection Dogs, 8 years as a NASDU approved Security Dog Trainer for a variety of disciplines, Certi
fied through ICOES for canine training and behaviour and I am one of three trainer of trainers for a UK based Scentwork organisation . I’ve competed at 3 x National Police Dog Finals, 6 x Service Dog of the Year Competitions, 8 x Regional Police Dog Trials, 4 x Open Police Dog Competitions and Judged at a variety of open Working Dog trials. I have been a guest speaker at an international dog training conference, I’ve written articles for magazines and authored a dog training column in Barnsley Chronicle. I’m co-owner of one of the largest dog training companies in the UK and during this time I’ve personally trained well over 8000 dogs and their owners helping with a vast array of training and complex behavioural issues. I’ve trained a support dog for a children’s outdoor activities charity in Rotherham and I run loads of dog training and handling demos in support of local charities and events throughout Yorkshire. I’ve also trained and worked dogs for film and TV including; X-Men First Class, Peaky Blinders, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Prey (series 2) , No Offence, Puppy Love, Scott and Bailey, DCI Banks, an award winning short film called Twine with a Sheffield film company and also trained and handled Toto for The Wizard of Oz at a local theatre.