Kendal Shepherd
Kendal Shepherd qualified as a veterinary surgeon from Bristol University in 1978. With extensive experience in small animal practice, she was the first vet in the UK to be accredited by the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour as a certificated clinical animal behaviourist in 2005. She has been heavily involved in the anatomical and behavioural assessment of dogs for the Courts under both sections 1 and 3 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991.
Her present particular passions are the routine education, particularly of children, in the understanding of canine communication and prevention of aggression and dog bite incidents, the abolition of Breed Specific Legislation and a complete overhaul of the DDA and other legislation pertaining to dogs, and the encouragement of veterinary professionals to routinely safeguard the behaviour of their patients in all cases that they treat.