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.

We are very pleased, that she accepted our invitation into our Instructor Team to represent us in the future in Wales and the surrounding English border parts.

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: Sussex

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.
We are expecting great things from Conor in the future and are very please to have him on board.