About Edinburgh Dog Behaviour

We are over the moon to announce that Elona Smith has now officially joined our wee team, offering training 1-2-1s (online and in-person) and helping us run Edinburgh Puppy Club, which is set to launch in September!

Elona's love of behaviour work was ignited 3 years ago when she adopted wonderful little Juno from Romania. Together the pair have come on quite the journey, transforming Juno from an uncertain and nervous rescue into a confident and happy canine companion!
Elona has trained with some of the best in the industry and she is a registered member of PACT (Professional Association of Canine Trainers). She is also, rather excitingly, about to embark on an MSc in Clinical Animal Behaviour at the University of Edinburgh!

Elona's calm, friendly and positive approach will be a massive asset to anyone looking for help understanding and improving the relationship they have with their dog. If you'd like to book in with Elona let us know, you won't be disappointed she's brilliant!

Growing up in The Gambia, Christina always found herself surrounded by a variety of animals - domesticated and wild - and from a very early age, she was fascinated with animal training and how to communicate with other species effectively.

When she finally welcomed her first very own dog into her and her partner’s family in 2013, she made many naive and common puppy raising mistakes and, following a number of unfortunate incidents with other dogs, her little dog Indie became reactive towards other dogs and would bark whenever he saw, smelled or heard another dog. Through trying to help him, Christina found herself attending different dog training classes, and then also dog training seminars by well-known professionals including Victoria Stilwell, Chirag Patel and Sarah Fisher among others. Indie made great progress and after graduating from uni with a BA(hons) in airline management, Christina made a snap decision to follow her passion and study dog training, in particular, the clicker training method, through the Karen Pryor Academy. In 2015 she graduated as a Karen Pryor Academy as Certified Training Partner, with Certified Canine Graduate Indie by her side.

Christina has since raised another 3 puppies, including selecting, raising and training her Working Cocker Spaniel George as a diabetic alert dog for herself. She has helped countless puppy owners, running puppy training classes as well as one-to-one puppy sessions focusing on all things puppy raising and training. She has a particular interest in the critical developmental stages of young puppies, and how to support them in becoming the most confident, well-rounded versions of themselves, and we are proud to have her onboard providing online training and behaviour advice to our Edinburgh Puppy Club Members!