Peter Neville is a founding Director of the Centre of Applied Pet Ethology (COAPE) in the UK. In practice for the treatment of behaviour problems in pets for nearly 20 years, Peter established the behaviour referral clinic at the Dept of Vet Medicine, Bristol in 1990. He has been the Visiting Scholar in Animal Behaviour in the Animal Sciences Dept at Ohio State University, USA since 2002 and is a speaker in high demand at veterinary, behaviour and training meetings around the world.
Author of the internationally best-selling books: ‘Do Cats Need Shrinks?’ (and ‘Do Dogs Need Shrinks?’) and many other books, videos and papers, Peter is a behaviour consultant to Nestle Purina PetCare in the UK and the European licence holder for the patented Gentle Leader® Headcollar training system for dogs.
Peter also leads ‘behind the scenes’ special safaris in Africa and Europe observing the behaviour and studying the ecology of Cheetah, African Wild Dogs, wolves and elephants first hand with biologists and vets in the field.