Karen B. London PhD

Karen B. London, PhD, is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer and a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist who specializes in working with dogs with serious behavioral problems, especially aggression. She began working professionally with dogs in 1997, and has spent years working with clients in one-on-one consultations, teaching group classes, and giving seminars about dog training and canine ethology for trainers, veterinary and shelter staff, and the public. Karen received her BS in Biology from UCLA and her PhD in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied the defensive behavior of neotropical social wasps, and a nesting association between two species of wasps. Her research and scholarly publications cover such diverse topics as interactions between species that live together, defensive and aggressive behavior, evolution of social behavior, communication within and between species, learning, and parental investment. She is an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences at Northern Arizona University, where she has enjoyed teaching tropical ecology and conservation field courses in Nicaragua and in Costa Rica. She also teaches a freshman class about the importance of insects to society called “Sex, Bugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll.” She writes for TheBark.com, writes the London Zoo animal column for the Arizona Daily Sun, and is the author of six books about canine training and behavior. Her most recent book is Treat Everyone Like a Dog: How a Dog Trainer’s World View Can Improve Your Life.