From lifestyle tips to health advice and behavioural guides, our pet experts are here to give you the knowledge and tools to be a better pet parent.

So you can navigate pet parenthood with confidence and help your four-legged friend live their best life.

Discover more about our pet specialists and their areas of expertise below.

Philippa is a certified dog trainer and behaviourist. Having set up her business Animal Friend in 1997, she believes in taking a kind and holistic approach to dog training. Her passion is helping owners to understand their dogs and increasing the bond between canines and humans.

Lucy Hoile has been practicing as a feline behaviourist since 2010 and is committed to strengthening the relationship between cats and their caregivers by understanding the unique needs of every cat she works with. As well as working with individual cats, Lucy shares her knowledge of the feline species and cat behaviour around the world through talks, webinars and blogs.

Straight after a youthful ballerina phase, Nicole set her sights on becoming a vet – and never looked back. A 2006 Liverpool Graduate, she spent a decade in small animal practice before an adventurous move to Poland with her husband and two kids, followed by COVID, changed the course of her career. Stepping away from clinical work wasn’t planned, but it did open an exciting new door – connecting through the written word. Now, she thrives on transforming the complicated into the comprehensible.

Corinne is originally from Wales and moved to New Zealand after graduating university. She started her career with a university-based equine internship and moved onto mixed and small animal practice. Currently she splits her time between online tele triage and working in an after-hours vet clinic. She has also spent time in the Pacific Islands on desexing campaigns.

Emma graduated from the Royal Vet College in London in 2011. She has a keen interest in surgery and went on to do a post graduate certificate in small animal surgery and was then awarded advanced practitioner status in the same discipline.

Lily qualified from Liverpool University in 2011 and spent 5 years as a veterinarian working in mixed animal practice. As Lily’s passion for exotics and exploring more complicated small animal medical cases developed, she stepped into small animal-only practice. By 2018 Lily was leading a busy branch of a large hospital practice with a fantastic team, enjoying working on both surgical and medical cases.

Lizzie graduated from the University of Bristol in 2011, and has been working in first opinion companion animal practice. She has worked in a variety of clinics across the U.K., from large hospitals to small branch practices. She enjoys doing a mixture of medicine, surgery and emergency work. Lizzie currently works in a small rural practice where she enjoys working in a close-knit community.

Siân was your typical kid who loved animals and science, and so spent most of her teenage years on farms and in kennels to realise her ambition of going to vet school. Graduating from Cambridge in 2011, she has worked in independent small animal general practice ever since. Her passion in veterinary medicine is contextualised care; ensuring the best welfare for pets and their owners by seeing every family for their individual circumstances, knowing that the goal is happy healthy pets at home. Siân is owned by a cat called Xanthe and two small children. She loves yoga, dressmaking, being outdoors and strong female leads in books and film.