David Appleby MSc CCAB
In 1989 David established and was the first 
head of practice at the Pet Behaviour Centre. In November 2009 he emigrated to Finland and continued in practice with AB Klinikka at the Ehyt centre Salo, which is about one hour west of Helsinki. David continues to be linked to the Pet Behaviour Centre through the series of behaviour booklets, designed to provide owners with behavioural advice, for which The Pet Behaviour Centre is the UK distributor.
David has been in practice as a pet behaviour counsellor since 1986. For twenty years, from 1989, he was based at the Pet Behaviour Centre and ran up to 10 regional clinics at Veterinary Referral Centres. For twenty years David was the visiting behaviour counsellor at Queen's Veterinary School at Cambridge University, where he also lectured to students.
David has lived with dogs and cats all his life and worked with Royal Air Force Police Dogs for seven years. Whilst serving in Cyprus he was the head instructor for the saddle club at the Akrotiri air base where there were 30 horses and ponies, one donkey and an active membership of 90 men, women and children. After the Air Force David moved to Guide Dogs for the Blind where he became a Guide Dog Mobility Instructor and he worked at the GDBA training centre Leamington Spa for a total of seven years before becoming a pet behaviour counsellor and gaining his MSc in the subject and eventually one of the first in the profession to become a Certified Clinical Animal Behaviourist.
David has always been active within the profession generally and was a founder member of the Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors. He has also held posts as Chairman of the Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors, membership secretary for the BSAVA affiliated Companion Animal Behaviour Therapy Study Group and has served on the ASAB accreditation committee for Certification of Clinical Animal Behaviourists. David is active in research and has presented papers at scientific meetings on many occasions. He is an occasional contributor to a number of journals and dog and cat related magazines and has written for Dogs Today Magazine every month since 1990. He is frequent lecturer in the UK and is a lecturer on the postgraduate diploma/MSc course for pet behaviour counselling at Southampton University. He also teaches in many other countries, especially Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Switzerland.
From the autumn term of 2010 David and Tuulia Burgherr will establish and run the new behaviour clinic and lecture on applied animal behaviour to undergraduates and residents at the faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Helsinki University.
You can find a list of available talks and workshops here.