Premier UK Mantrailing Courses

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: 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: Essex

Andy is actively involved in search and rescue and has attended many call outs as part of his SAR team. Having taken part in, and helped with, trailing for several years the natural progression was to combine the two.

Along with his dog Minx, he completed the Skills for Justice Trailing Dog Handler Award through The British Mantrailing Academy, becoming an operational standard team. Andy now continues with regular CPD to maintain this high standard.

He has a career as a professional educator in the UK and spent two years training secondary school teachers in Uganda where he also indulged his mountaineering passion built in Europe and the Himalayas.

This experience enables him to understand the needs of people wanting to learn, giving him a friendly and flexible approach that helps handlers to achieve their goals and build relationships as a team.

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: Essex

Tracy has had dogs all her life in many shapes and forms. She trained as a nurse and ran a charity for many years. She is a former member of East Cornwall Search and Rescue Team where she was a casualty carer. She is a founder member of Cornwall Search Dogs where she is a trustee and an operational member. She has been mantrailing with her springer spaniel Holly for the past 7 years and is qualified with the skills for justice for Mantrailing.  She is also training her other spaniel and teaches Mantrailing, swimming and is an open water coach.

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.

t-simpson5@sky.com.

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, and has been awarded Skills for Justice Trailing Dog Handler Qualification and having trained a large number of Trailing Dog Team, Andy has great skills and expertise in instructing.

andy@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: 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.