Tellington TTouch Practitioner

Born in 1969 into a family mad about animals it seemed only natural that Toni should be destined for a career with animals. Toni says ‘animals just walked into our lives, sometimes arriving injured others just flying in the window’.

By 1989 she was working for The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. She quickly progressed from kennel staff to supervisor and then on to the staff training department were she managed all the City and Guilds kennel programmes, writing and marking exams etc.

In 1997 she studied under Linda Tellington - Jones and other top Tellington TTouch Instructors to become a registered level 1 Tellington TTouch Companion Animal Practitioner. She was one of the first to qualify in the UK and has really seen it grow over the years in the UK.

In September 2000 she left GDBA to pursue her passion for the Tellington TTouch Training Method and has been practising ever since. Toni is now one of the highest qualified practitioners in the UK and assists instructors in training new practitioners. In 2004 she also qualified as an equine practitioner, although chooses to concentrate on companion animals and captive wild animals.

She has appeared along side Sarah Fisher in the hit TV series ‘Talking to Animals’ and has also been featured in articles for ‘Dogs Today’ and ‘Your Dog’ magazine.

As well as working privately with clients, Toni runs 1 & 2 day workshops and performance clinics for companion animals, gives talks about the work and works closely with a number of rescue shelters and assistant dogs organisations.

Toni works with all animals including dogs, cats, small animals, birds, horses, reptiles, wild life and non-domesticated animals. Her main passion being the 9 socialised wolves she works with at the UK Wolf Conservation Trust, www.ukwolf.org near Reading in Berkshire where she lives.