Picture: Carolyn Mentieth
August 2001

 

 

Picture: Tim Rose
Katie modelling sweatshirt and cap for Dogs Today Magazine.

 

Picture: Philippa Short
...working "Topper" (Whitelocks Little Demonstrator) at Whitelocks Riding Stables, Summer 2000

 

Picture: Mark Holliday
... during a photo shoot in 2000.

 

Picture: Mark Holliday
... Working Topper at Catherine Omell's party, summer 2001

Katie's professional canine career spans over 20 years.

In-between juggling film-work and instructing at the CFA, Katie studied Companion Animal Behaviour Counselling at Southampton Universtity having completed the Canine Human Interface Course in 1993 under John Fisher, gaining a Disctinction Pass.

During the period 1991 to 1998 she attended six Volhard Instructor Camps in the USA and attended her second Holistic Camp in Virginia, USA in January 2002. She instructed the Volhard Motivational Method for eight years before switching to Clicker Training in 1997. In 1999 she attended Gail Fisher's "Advanced Clicker Training Workshop" (All Dog's Gym) in New Hampshire, USA.

Katie successfully competed in Obedience with Bryndle and Chess. Sadly both Chess and Bryndle passed away aged 13 3/4 and 14 1/2 respectively. David, Katie's Jack Russell Terrier, retired from working in Television, Commercials and Stills Photography aged 9 1/2 and has just had his 11th Birthday. Katie's "family" now comprises Flossy Flo, an apricot standard poodle her Labradoodle daughter, Hermione and George, a welsh collie.

In addition to the dogs, Katie also owns four cats; Harry was a somewhat reluctant star at one of the Dogs Today Shoots, Wotsit his mother and two unrelated moggies - Rachel and Charessa.

Katie is now the mother of two beautiful children, Jenson and Daisy.

Katie has appeared on:
Pets Go Public - with Peter Purvis
The Richard and Judy Show - with Kefaah and Hege Hurdwell
London Tonight
(a newsbite about the school and a review of 102 dalmations)
Newsroom South East
(two newsbites)
Meridian Television (Newsbite)

And she has produced dogs for
Dogs Today Magazine
(every issue since September 1999)
The Arcadia Group
Lloyds Bank
British Comedy Awards
Harry Nash Films
Dragon Fire Productions
Town and Country Petfoods
The Smith Partnership
Jump (Ruby Wax Commercial Breakdown)
Survival
Picardy Productions
Disney Home Video
Unilever
Gerard De Thame Films
The Artists Company
EMI Records
Petspark.com
Bob Martin
The Company of Animals
James Wellbeloved
The New York Times

Feature articles about Katie or the Canine Film Academy have appeared in:
Daily Mail
Daily Express
London Evening Standard
Dogs Today Magazine
The Observer Group
The News Group
Virginia Water Gazette
Chiltern & Thames Rider Magazine

Katie & Flossy Flo, her Standard Poodle Puppy, June 2003

Picture: Philippa Short
... Katie asks Topper to bend and stretch before doing his advanced exercises.

 

 

Picture: Mark Holliday
... with Esme, the day after she arrived in the UK in November 2000. Esme sadly died having contracted Leishmaniasis whilst living in Portugal on New Years Eve, 2002.

 

 

 

Picture: Tim Rose for Dogs Today Mag
Photo Manipulation: Kevin Brockbank
... illustrating an article written by Carolyn Menteith about the Dog Fur Trade

 

 

Picture: Philippa Short
... Topper finally learns to rear on cue!