Meet The IABTC Team
Angela White
Angela White FKCAI CDA, OBA, BehA, Cert Ed, MSET.
Angela White is the Founder of IABTC and has over 40 years of experience in dog training, behaviour and teaching. For many years she was a senior lecturer in behaviour and training and wrote the first-ever higher education programme in Canine Behaviour and Training.
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Angela competed in competitive obedience for many years getting up to qualification in Test C before easing off to concentrate on her role as Editor of two dog Magazines while running a thriving training centre, kennels and dog training equipment manufacturing company. She has also dabbled in many dog sports and has trained a range of breeds giving her a vast range of knowledge.
She now specialises in teaching people how to become dog training instructors and behaviourists and follows her special interest in training assistance and therapy dogs with their owners.
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Angela is also the founder and headteacher of Haxey Study Centre - a training provider for children who are not in the usual school system.
Karen Holmes
Karen Holmes KPACTP, KCAI C&T
IABTC Advanced Accredited Instructor. Clicker and Target Level 4 (Instructor). Member of ABTC (Animal Behaviour Training Council).
Karen is a Certified Training Partner of the Karen Pryor Academy after studying with the Academy to enhance her knowledge of Clicker Training in which she specialises.
Karen was the first person ever, to be awarded KCAI in Clicker & Target Training.
Karen has owned dogs for 40 years and currently has three, Pumi, Lagotto and Sheltie. She enjoys training them in a range of areas including scentwork, agility, rally, and showing and follows our Master Dog Training programme with them. She qualified for Crufts with her Lagotto where she won her class.
Owning and working with different breeds over the years gives her a wealth of knowledge on how to change training methods to suit different dogs at different stages of their lives. She is also a qualified groomer.
Karen is very busy at IABTC teaching a wide range of courses including Clicker training, Parkour, MDT, and more.
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She too works with our younger students as part of Haxey Study Centre.
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Jayne Karen Butler
Jayne runs Collar and Lead Dog Training Club at IABTC
and holds listed status for running the Kennel Club Good Citizen test scheme at all levels. She is also involved in Therapy Support Dogs
Jayne Butler - IABTC Accredited Instructor. KCAI - Kennel Club accredited instructor in Companion Dog Training. Jayne is highly experienced in instructing all levels of the Kennel Club Good Citizen Scheme, from Puppy Foundation to Gold. She enjoys training her own dogs and attends a range of classes including Parkour Master Dog Trainer and Clicker Class. She has entered Rally obedience trials and qualified at levels one and two.
She has a special interest in Clicker, Carting and MDT and teaches Good Citizen at IABTC
Di Rhodes
Di Rhodes BSc Hons, MEd, PGCE RGN. Dip Canine Behaviour Modification. Dip Search Dog Handler IABTC Advanced Accredited Instructor
Her Qualifications also include Cert How to Teach Scent Work, Level 3 Cert in Animal Assisted Therapy. Level 3 Cert in Canine Physiotherapy. ​
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Di has owned a variety of breeds for over 30 years, she currently has two - a GSD and a Chihuahua. She started training at IABTC after getting her third German Shepherd she entered just a few obedience shows and won out of pre beginners in Obedience and continued to test A. She has competed in Rally with one of her dogs (Pip, a Jack Russell) being part of the Northern Rally Team at Crufts 2019. Purdy Di’s GSD is a Therapy Dog working in hospital occupational therapy departments.
Mr Deeks, her rescue Chihuahua is proving that little dogs can excel at Scentwork too.
Di’s special areas of interest for study and teaching are Brain and Behaviour and Scent Work.