Instructors

Main Area of Instruction: National and International

Karin has many years of operational experience as a Dog handler and Instructor in Mantrailing, Airscenting SAR, General Purpose, Live Body and Victim Detection, Explosive Detection. She also holds a Diploma as a Behaviour Practitioner and excessive experience as a Sport Dog Handler in IPO and Agility and is the creator of a Training and Assessment Program for Mantrailing Dogs for SAR. karin@britishmantrailingacademy.com

Main Area of Instruction: Wales & Borders

Annie is a long time dog owner and has a great understanding in caring and training dogs and horses.

She has been trailing with her K9 Partner Billie, a wired haired Vizsla since 2019. She is part of the Search and Rescue Community for a number of years and is currently completing training and upskilling to be involved in future deployments. She is also helping her husband Andy to train their young Vizsla puppy to become an operational Trailing Dog in the future, which shows great potential.

Annie and Billie achieved the Skills for Justice Award Trailing Dog Handler in 2021, but it became very clear to the Master Instructors of the British Mantrailing Academy early into the course, that Annie not only was an extremely gifted Dog Handler, but also outstanding in people and customer care skills.

Main Area of Instruction: Cornwall

Annie has been working with her K9 partner Lexi for 5 years and both are qualified with Skills for Justice Award for Trailing.

 Annie is one of the founders of Cornwall Search Dogs, having been part of a SAR team they wanted to take this further with their dogs. Annie’s role within the team includes lead trainer where she has the joy of working with different breeds and people and helping them hone their skills and become a team.

With a background in coaching and training people Annie brings all her skills to deliver fun and constructive training for both the dogs and people

Main Area of Instruction: National and International

Richard has many years of operational experience as a Dog hander and Instructor in Mantrailing, Airscenting SAR, General Purpose, Live Body and Victim Detection, Explosive Detection. He also has excessive experience in training and competing in Working Trials. richard@britishmantrailingacademy.com

Main Area of Instruction: National & International

Liz has many years of experience with training dogs. Liz has excellent knowledge about missing person behavior. She has an extreme level of understanding about trailing. She is able to instruct handlers with high drive dog as well as has great skills to motivate dogs with a low to medium drive level. She has great abilities to highlight and solve training issues when training dogs and handlers. liz@britishmantrailingacademy.com

 

Main Area of Instruction: Essex

Ian has been around dogs all his life. He has 40 years’ experience training dogs. He has trained dogs for both obedience and working trails. He studies Canine Behaviour and gained certification in advanced ‘amichien bonding’ which is a holistic approach to dog training. Ian has worked with some of the most experienced instructors in the field of Mantrailing and gained operational status with his German Shepherd Jaeger in 2016. ian@britishmantrailingacademy.com

Main Area of Instruction: Essex

Conor is the youngest operational Trailing Dog Handler in the country. He has gained his experience, by observing and participating in Dog Training and especially in Trailing by observing Dogs of all kind of breeds and their handlers with different skill levels for the last 8 years.
Conor trained his young German Shepherd to become a reliable Trailing Dog at such young age, he also participated as an observer in an Explosive Detection Dog Handler Course and had a huge part in training a Springer Spaniel to operational status.

 

Main Area of Instruction:Yorkshire

Andy grew up with dogs and aged 23 trained his first Labrador to work for the gun. He later got his first Weimeraner he also trained as a Gundog. In 2011 Andy started getting involved with Animal Trapping for conservation projects including relocating foxes and badgers to this date. He started also using this skills to trap lost and stray dogs on the UK mainland with great success. He reunited over 300 dogs with their owners. These skills did lead to joining a Spanish Charity Project to trap and capture Spanish Podencos. After returning to the UK he shared his trapping skills with a group of likeminded people that set their skills to reunite dog owners with their dogs to this date.

The trapping of dogs did lead Andy to gaining more skills how dogs use their natural trailing abilities to avoid traps and he tried to learn more about how dogs scent discriminate and how to use the natural abilities.

Andy has a great skill level in dog behaviour and dog training.

andy@britishmantrailingacademy.com

Main Area of Instruction: Cannock, Staffordshire

Sarah started teaching puppy classes in 2015 and started trailing with her dog Richard in 2017. She gained her license to track lost dogs in 2020 and was very successful.

She started offering Mantrailing, Scent work and Tracking training to her customers in 2020. She has a great understanding and knowledge in her fields of expertise.

She is quick to assess what training needs the teams have and has a very good skill set in dog training and dog behaviour.