Like most dog lovers, Lee Livingood has been owned by a dog since the day she was born. She's been training her companion animals since 1960 and has been living with and working with adult shelter and rehomed dogs for more than 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 on dog behavior and learning for a variety of publications
Livingood is a Certified Dog Behavior Consultant through the International Association of Animal Behavior Consultants. She is a professional member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers and a professional member of the Association of Animal Behavior Professionals. She is a lecturer in the Canine Behavior Management Program at Kutztown University. She lectures on dog behavior problems and aggression.
Livingood serves as a behavior consultant to several all breed and breed specific adoption groups
She is an evaluator for Therapy Dogs, Inc. She and one of her Greyhounds, Dash, volunteer as a therapy team in a variety of venues.
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 US Senate staffer. She graduated Franklin and Marshall College with a major in Community Organization.
She shares her life with her very tolerant husband, two retired racing Greyhounds, a Galgo Espanol, a mixed breed dog, and two Bengal cats.