Jo-Rosie Haffenden
TV animal trainer, author and public speaker
Jo-Rosie is a world renowned animal trainer, three-times published author and international speaker. Her first TV project captured her working alongside Nando Brown selecting and pairing six rescue dogs from Battersea with six vulnerable people and training them up as support dogs for Channel 4’s factual entertainment show, Rescue Dog to Super Dog.
Experience
Jo-Rosie grew up in a small farming community in Sussex where she was surrounded since birth with a plethora of different species. From reading stories to the lambs at 5, eventing horses at 15 and then competing with her rescue dog at European standard in her 20s, it wasn’t surprising when she decided to pursue a career in Animal Behaviour.
She has a degree in Applied Psychology and a Post Graduate in Animal Behaviour. Jo-Rosie is also proud to be an approved Expert Witness for the Crown Prosecution Service in the case of Dangerous Dogs.
Jo-Rosie is confident presenting to live audiences and regularly presents at international animal conferences including in New Zealand at the Association of Pet Dog Trainers annual conference, in Paris at DogEvent and across America. She is just as confident in front of camera and her willingness to train the likes of dogs, cats, horses, alpacas, rabbits, goats and babies on screen sets her apart as a choice presenter for shows that need a practical knowhow as well as a scientifically robust explanation.
On four occasions she was asked to speak to the All Party Parliamentary Dog Advisory Welfare Group including about Dog Training Regulation and Dangerous Dogs.
Her own dogs
Jo-Rosie is passionate about rescue dogs. Her own dogs are trained to a high standard and have been used to demonstrate in all of her television projects so far.
TV Animal Trainer
As well as Rescue Dog to Super Dog (Channel 4) Jo-Rosie has presented and contributed to multiple television shows. She worked alongside presenter Alexandre Armstrong, training pairs of unique animals (chickens, alpacas, horses and goats) for ITV’s series Teach my Pet to do That.
She presented the Channel 4 show The Baby Trainer where she related what she knew about dogs and animals to toddlers – solving the challenges faced by parents everywhere from tweenager tantrums to sleep deprivation.
In 2023 and 2024 Jo-Rosie was the chosen expert on BBC News and took part in day time TV discussions in popular shows with, for example, Vanessa Feltz and Jeremy Vine. In 2023 Jo-Rosie also worked with Alan Titchmarsh on a show for Channel 5 which is yet to be released.
Author and international speaker
Alongside her work as a world renowned animal trainer, Jo is a three-times published author – Teach Your Dog, Teach Your Cat and The Real Dog Yoga.
As an international speaker she has spoken all over the UK and internationally in Europe, America and New Zealand at conferences. She’s hosted events on topics such as Resource Guarding, Predation, Separation Anxiety and Dog Bites.
She grew up surrounded by dogs, sheep and horses in the sunny hills of Sussex. After studying Applied Psychology she went on to obtain a postgraduate qualification in Animal Behaviour. She is passionate about evidence-based training techniques and showing people how similar animals are to us. Training and working in the field of animal science (albeit with a dog, a hippo or a human) is where her mechanical skills shine and her understanding of learning theory and cognition comes into its own.
The Trainers’ Trainer
After founding and co-directing The School of Canine Science, a school of over 5000 active dog trainer students internationally, Jo-Rosie has stepped away from business partners Nando Brown and Dean Nicholas and started her own academy for dog trainers. After filming over 40 hours of presented video lectures for courses that covered topics such as canine neurochemistry, separation anxiety and how to teach a dog to …, she now uses her screen presence and ability to communicate complex training procedures and scientific discourse in everyday language to train trainers directly in person all over the world as well as via her popular social media and to select Academy Members.
Jo-Rosie documents her day-to-day life training and competing with her own four dogs whilst juggling life as a single parent via her popular Facebook page with nearly 50k fans and her Instagram with 10.2k followers.
Jo-Rosie’s agent
David Foster Management
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Tel: 01264 771726
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