David Cavill

www.davidcavill.co.uk

David Cavill trained as a teacher and taught for over 23 years.

He publishes the weekly publication Our Dogs (www.ourdogs.co.uk. He has written three books about dogs with a fourth, Running Your Own Boarding Kennels now in its sixth edition. He devised Dog Directory and created the Eukanuba Rescue Dog of the Year Competition.

He founded the Animal Care College in 1980 (www.animalcarecollege.co.uk) and the College now provides courses in most areas and at many levels of animal care. The courses include the training of kennelstaff, rescue and rehoming staff, judge and breeder education, understanding canine and feline psychology, animal behaviour, the development of kennel management skills and veterinary nursing. He is a Kennel Club Approved Trainer.

With his wife, Angela, he was joint manager of Bell Mead, Battersea Dogs´ Home´s Country Kennels at Old Windsor for eleven years so he has also been deeply involved in the world of stray and rescue dogs and cats. Bell Mead was the UK´s most prestigious kennelstaff training college, boarded over 120 dogs, eighty cats, and housed and cared for 180 of Battersea´s dogs as well as having had a very busy grooming parlour.

Prior to this position he was a director of a major boarding and quarantine kennel which incorporated a large pet store.

When Angela suggested they have a dog he originally wanted a Samoyed but from a practical point of view (having a small house, small garden and a brown carpet at the time) a Finnish Spitz was considered more sensible but he always hankered after one of his own and eventually shared ownership of a lovely dog with Averil Cawthera –Purdey. However, he is best known as a breeder of Finnish Spitz. With his wife he owns one of the U.K.´s most successful breeding prefixes. His first book was ‘All About the Spitz Breeds’, now out of print.

He is show manager and Chairman of Southern Counties Canine Association, (www.southerncountiesdogshow.co.uk) one of the U.K.´s major dog shows, has serves as Vice chairman of The Kennel Club Breed Liaison Council for six years, a member of The Kennel Club Working Party on shows development and judges training is President of the British Rottweiler Association and has been Chairman of the Rottweiler Breed Council.

He is a well-known judge in most breeds officiating regularly in Britain and abroad. He is passed to award Challenge Certificates in fifteen breeds (Samoyeds, Leonbergers, German Spitz, Alaskan Malamutes, Rottweilers, Border Collies, Belgian Shepherd Dogs (T, G) & M), Norwegian Buhunds, Schipperkes, Keeshonds, Japanese Spitz, Japanese Akitas, Swedish Vallhunds, Finnish Spitz and Siberian Huskies) across three groups and is passed to judge the Working and Pastoral Groups and BIS at Championship Shows.

Despite his involvement with the world of dogs he has been owned for many years by a succession of cats. Mr. Brooks, a black cat of considerable presence, is the latest in a long line of feline companions.

His main outside interests are theatre, all forms of music but especially blues and mainstream jazz vocalists, travel, eating and drinking – not necessarily in that order. He is a member of the Savage Club and the 606 Jazz Club. He sings a bit and if you want to hear him you can at http://www.myspace/davidcavill">www.myspace/davidcavill