Tom Ryan

My name is Tom Ryan, and I am your local dog behaviour therapist and trainer for Bark Busters. I was born in the West Midlands, and after various moves, I have settled with my family, helping to raise four children.  Bark Busters has become part of my family as my wife and eldest child are also behaviour therapists too.

After leaving school, I worked in a family-owned business learning how important customer service was and eventually became the owner of a thriving, successful company.

Our current furry family are 5 rescue dogs, who have found their forever home with us. Our interest and work with Bark Busters started a long time ago after engaging a Bark Busters' therapist to help us with Coco, a rescue of course, who showed aggression. She pulled so much on the lead, and it was a real worry trying to walk her.  I was left in awe of how well she responded to the tailor-made training programme that was given to us and the amazing support we received. Our newly learned methods helped with other rescue dogs we adopted too.

Sadly, one of the reasons I joined the Bark Busters' family was a tragic accident to my dog Milo, my lovely chocolate labrador.  He was staying with a pet sitter whilst I was away on holiday, and due to no fault of the pet sitter, as he was such a puller on the lead, he slipped his collar and was involved in a horrible traffic accident, and unfortunately, he didn't survive. Blaming myself for not training him more and telling myself that the incident could have been avoided, I had "managed" his behaviour problem or so I thought, instead of dealing with it.