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Michelle Walker MSc 
Owner and Founder

Pi stands on two back legs, with his front legs leaning on a graffiti ridden plinth in an empty skate park

Michelle has acquired a number of canine related qualifications over the last 25 years, including:

  • BTEC National Diploma in Animal Care 

  • BSc Hons in Animal Behaviour (Anglia Ruskin University)

  • City & Guilds in Work-Related Animal Management

  • NOCN Certificate in The Practical Aspects of Teaching People and Training Dogs 

  • MSc in Clinical Animal Behaviour (University of Lincoln)

  • International Dog Parkour Association - Instructor and Evaluator

  • Trick Trainer UK - Instructor

  • UK Sniffer Dogs Bronze Instructor

  • Do More With Your Dog Associate Trick Dog Instructor 

Staffie logo, with bulb icon on top of its head symbolising the epiphany moment we get when dog training.

Michelle has completed studies and passed her MSc in Clinical Animal Behaviour at Lincoln University.

She is also a Provisional Clinical Animal Behaviourist with the Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors (APBC). 

Provisional members have demonstrated that they have the appropriate level of Knowledge and understanding for the professional role of Clinical Animal Behaviourist (CAB). They are now gaining the practical experience necessary to be assessed as a CAB and therefore become a Full member of the APBC. The APBC supports its Provisional members undertaking behaviour consultations.

 

Michelle is a Canine Rehabilitation Trainer at Control The Meerkat (www.controlthemeerkat.com) and has also recently taken on the role of On-Set Animal Handler with Animal Direction.

This includes tv and commercial work with her own dogs as well as training and managing clients from the animal modelling and casting agency when on location (www.animaldirection.com)

Michelle is a bull breed enthusiast, having owned these beautiful characters for over 15 years. Not only that, she has fostered many different breeds during her time as a kennel assistant at Manchester Dogs Home.

Michelle sits on a wooden cable reel with her white american bulldog Cooper
Michelle is stood in front of a class of 3 women, teaching them about puppy development

Practical and Professional Experience:

  • Health and Safety at Work Certificate

  • Human First Aid Certificate

  • Canine First Aid Certificate 

  • Manchester Dogs Home 

  • Dog-E-Dayz Daycare

  • Licks N Clicks Dog Walking and Training Services

  • Lancashire Dog Training and Behaviour Centre

  • Michelle's Canine Care 

Michelles graduation photo from lincoln university
Staffie Ryder poses for a photo with a wide panting staffie smile
Ryder the brindle staffie and Pi the blue and white staffie pose together in the sand dunes on a sunny day at the beach
Bull breed puppy, Oakley sits for a photo
White american bulldog Cooper trots towards the camera on a green field
Greying old staffie, Bailie, looking to left of the picture wearing a blue harness.
Darwin sits on a graffiti ridden plinth in an empty skate park

EpiphanyK9 offers the following services within the following areas:​

Dog Training - Manchester, Oldham and the surrounding areas up to 10 mile radius **

Dog Behaviour - Manchester and the surrounding areas up to 20 mile radius **

** Distances outside of the radius provided will be charged a nominal fuel fee **

© 2024 By Michelle Walker for EpiphanyK9

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