Debra Millikan, Dip.ABST, Dip.DTBC, PABC
Education
Certificate IV in Dog Behavioural Training
Diploma in Dog Training and Behavior Consulting
Diploma of Animal Behavior Science and Technology specializing in dog training and behavior
Memberships
- Member, Delta Professional Dog Trainers’ Association
- Professional Dog Trainer (PDT), AABP
- Professional Animal Behavior Consultant (PABC), AABP
- Professional Dog Behavior Consultant (PDBC), AABP
Currently
- Head Instructor, Canine Behavioural School Inc (www.positivelydogs.com)
- Consultant and Trainer, Adelaide Pet Dog Training (www.petdogtraining.com.au)
- Internship Provider, Diploma of Professional Dog Training, Companion Animal Sciences Institute
- Delta Canine Good Citizen™ Award Test Assessor
- Advisory Board Member, Association of Animal Behavior Professionals
- Advisory Board Member, Companion Animal Sciences Institute
Having spent 25 years in the traditional dog world of showing, competing with her dogs in obedience, endurance and agility as well as judging obedience, Debra’s discovery of positive dog training was a life altering experience. She read avidly about the subject whilst living in Europe and on her return home to , undertook the Delta Society Australia Canine Good Citizen Instructors’ Course (Cert IV in Dog Behavioural Training). This was soon followed by further study with the Companion Animal Sciences Institute attaining a double diploma (Dog Training & Behavior Consulting and Animal Behavior Science & Technology) in 2009.
Debra has always enjoyed the “train the trainer” aspect of her dog world and is currently involved with mentoring Delta CGC students, giving in-service training to the instructors and aspiring instructors of Canine Behavioural School Inc (a community service dog training club for which she is head instructor) and with writing articles for the journals of various dog control bodies around Australia and New Zealand. She has also been published in the Journal of Applied Companion Animal Behaviour and currently serves on the Advisory Board of the AABP as well as the CASI Board.
Debra shares her life with her very tolerant husband, Arnold and two Griffons Bruxellois – Joe and Bruno who keep her constantly amused and beguiled.