Paddy

Paddy has joined us as a guest member of the ICC team. Her training methods are very similar to our own and she has become a valued colleague and friend of Christina's. Over the years she has run our competitive obedience classes, show ring training classes, some agility classes, and has given a valuable second opinion with some of our more challenging behavioural cases.

Paddy Driscoll started her own training centre in 1996 although she had been training and competing for a number of years before that. She currently competes in obedience and used to compete in agility and the breed ring, having made up made up 2 show champions. She judges both obedience and breed. She has been involved in teaching and training dogs ever since she first started taking her keeshond, Piet (Ronsard of Rhinevale), to classes back in 1968.

She has been a part time lecturer in canine behaviour at Bishop Burton College (near Hull). As a member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (no 246) she is committed to "kind, fair and effective" methods and was one of the first people to introduce clicker training into the country which she has been using ever since (in one way or another) in dog training and behaviour work.

Her own dogs are her companions, living in the home, and over the years she has taken on a number of foster dogs, many with problems. Amongst her current canine family are German Spitz champion Ch Springfarn Dance Time, Aussie X Collie obedience competitor (and winner of one Test B so far) Darkbeck Spring, Malinois Whitefoot Pinto, a trio of rescue dogs Poppy (Border Collie) who used to bite, but doesn't any more, Winston and Dylan (both German Spitz) who came un-housetrained with major confidence issues and a fear of being handled. She is increasingly being published in magazines and books and is regular contributor to the James Wellbeloved Pet Club Magazine.