Bryony Francis has been taking animal behaviour clients on veterinary referral in South Wales, Gloucestershire & The Marches for 17 years. She is a Clinical Animal Behaviourist now covering Wales & The Midlands working with the RSPCA, for which her role involves developing and overseeing the implementation of behaviour modification plans to rehabilitate and prepare animals for adoptive homes.

Bryony holds a degree-level Certificate in Applied Animal Behaviour and a Post Graduate Diploma in Companion Animal Behaviour Counselling from the University of Southampton. She has also studied Horse & Business Management at Warwickshire College of Agriculture. She is a Certificated Clinical Animal Behaviourist (CCAB), independently accredited by the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASAB), and is registered as a Clinical Animal Behaviourist with the Animal Behaviour and Training Council (ABTC). She is also a member of the British Veterinary Behaviour Association.

Bryony grew up with a Smooth-haired Fox Terrier in the family. A keen horse-rider, she spent several years working with horses in various sporting disciplines. On placement from agricultural college in the 1990’s, she acquired from an animal rescue charity a Border Collie / Corgi cross whose challenging behaviours led Bryony into academic study of animal behaviour. Her passion for practical application of the subject prompted Bryony to embark on a career in which she could help struggling dog owners to improve the quality of the life their dogs share with them. Along with her husband, Bryony’s current fellow adventurer in the Welsh Mountains and beyond is a lively and playful Parsons Jack Russell Terrier.

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