Like most dog lovers, Lee Livingood has been owned by a dog since the day she was born. She's been training companion animals for more than forty years and has been living with and working with adult shelter and rehomed dogs for thirty-five years. Livingood is a companion animal behavior specialist and consults on companion animal behavior and on screening, placement, and rehoming of adult dogs. She is the author of the highly acclaimed Running with the Big Dogs: The Gentle Art of Turning Your Retired Racing Greyhound into Your Best Friend and Retired Racing Greyhounds for Dummies, the 2001 Dog Writers Association of America Maxwell Award winner as best single breed book.
Top behaviorists, trainers, and adoption groups have praised her books and call them "must read" books for Greyhound adopters and all dog owners. She writes and contributes to cat and dog publications and has been an expert resource for publications like USA Today.
Livingood is Certified Dog Behavior Consultant through the International Association of Companion Animal Behavior Consultants, and a professional member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers Her IAABC cat certification is pending. She teaches companion dog classes in the Harrisburg area and offers special needs classes to help expectant parents prepare their dogs for living with children, classes for children to promote dog safety and humane interactions, and classes to meet the special needs of retired racing Greyhounds.
In addition to her class schedule she travels throughout the US and Canada speaking and conducting workshops on various elements of dog training and behavior.
Before turning her life-long passion for companion animals and writing into a second career, Livingood spent twenty years as a program administrator, lobbyist, and a senior US Senate staffer. She graduated Franklin and Marshall College with a major in Community Organization.
She shares her life with her very tolerant husband, three retired racing Greyhounds, a Galgo Espanol, and two Bengal cats.
Last updated 8 /1/07