Jill Kessler has been working with dogs for twenty-five years, and an active participant in Rottweiler Rescue of Los Angeles for twenty-three years. What started as an interest in training her first beloved Rottweiler, Klaus, caused a serious left-turn in a budding magazine writing career. With each successive dog titled in performance sports and rescue dogs coming to live, learn, and be adopted, Jill expanded her knowledge about learning, aggression, fears, drives and all behaviors from the simplistic to the complex.
Jill wrote obedience articles for The Rottweiler Quarterly Magazine from 1988 to 2008, and is now a frequent contributor to the AKC Gazette breed column on the Rottweiler. She also does a fun and informative Q and A column called “Pet-Pourri” for newspapers. Jill also had a radio show, “The Dog Dish” on KTIE AM radio for a year and half, reviewing any and all things related to dogs.
The last several years has seen Jill take another turn in her work, as she now is heavily involved in expert witness work. Jill enormously enjoys reviewing legal cases involving dogs, as they are a puzzle to be worked out, often with only a few pieces on hand. Jill consults on all matters involving dogs—behaviors, temperament, standards of care and duty, aggression, training, cruelty, service dogs, etc.
Her main breed is still the Rottweiler, for which she is on the Judges’ Education Committee with her parent club, The American Rottweiler Club; she is a judge for National Independent Rottweiler Klub, and the president of Golden State Rottweiler Club. Her heart is firmly entrenched in rescue Rottweilers, evaluating, transporting and helping her friend Beverly Berger of Rottweiler Rescue of Los Angeles as both Treasurer and kennel help. Jill recently wrote a lengthy research-based article on the tail docking ban in dogs in Europe and the medical science behind the ban.
Currently at home Jill has one Rottweiler from the rescue kennels who is a big love-goof-ball, one old Min Pin (also from rescue), and one Yorkshire Terrier, who fell into Jill’s lap, and she kept her. She is affectionately known as the “Yorkweiler” by all of Jill’s friends, and the five-pounder rules the roost. Learn more about Jill at www.Jillkessler.com.
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