Rob Alleyne

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Join us for an hour of incredible training with Rob Alleyne.

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Ladies Working Dog Group

Robert is a signatory to the Registration Council for Dog Training and Behaviour Practitioners (RCDTBP), and he has lectured on canine behaviour on many occasions for different groups and organisations, both nationally and internationally.

He is a Member of the Kennel Club.

Rob is a patron for the charity K9 Crusaders. He is a keen campaigner trying to make a difference for dogs in relation to their care and welfare, and is firmly against breed specific legislation, and has attended several of the London protests against it.

He has talked on many radio programmes on the subject of dogs. He's also appeared on numerous television programmes talking on dogs and other animals. He was the behavioural trainer on the hugely successful BBC3 show Dog Borstal for all four series. He has also appeared on the BBC News, This Morning, Good Morning Britain and London Tonight, covering a variety of dog related subjects. He has written articles for most of the major national dog related magazines, such as Our dogs, Dogs Today, and Your Dog.

Robert has acted as an expert witness in court cases, both as a canine behavioural/trainer and as an animal welfare officer for the London Borough of Lewisham.

After acquiring a puppy from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home in 1981, he began attending dog training classes with him, and soon started working at competitive level obedience with both him and his next dog. He has run his own dog training classes since 1986. By 1994 he had won his way up to and including class ‘B’ before work commitments forced him to retire from competing. He has judged at limit, open, and championship level obedience competitions since 1986. He has been training people on instructing dog training classes since 1995.

Having spent some years studying the subject, Robert started working as a canine behavioural trainer in 1992, with the majority of his clients coming to him via veterinary referral, or from recommendations from previous clients. He has had a book published on the subject of dog behaviour and training, The Trouble-Free Dog, which was published in 2000, and had very positive reviews in The Times, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail and Dog Training Weekly and has been reprinted twice since then. It was revised and reprinted in 2008. He is currently writing his second book. He has also produced several booklets and pamphlets for Lewisham Council on dogs, which are distributed freely to the public.

In May 1990 he began working as an animal welfare officer for the London Borough of Lewisham, and continued there until January 2007, where he held the position of Senior Animal Welfare Officer. Dealing with all types of animals, ranging from escaped reptiles, to injured wildlife, to nuisance complaints, and of course – stray dogs, which was the services core function. This aspect of the job was obviously potentially very dangerous, so an ability to immediately assess a dogs’ attitude was essential, since stray or abandoned dogs could potentially turn aggressive. He left the service in 2006 to work full-time as a behavioural trainer.