Christina Potter

Christina Potter's over twenty-five years of training dogs have taught her more than her Masters Degree in Canine Psychology ever could. She has worked with many breeds such as Golden Retrievers, Chinese Cresteds, Berger Picards, and even an Afghan Hound. She has spent thousands of hours handling dogs for print ads, websites, motion capture for video games, commercials, and television shows--both live and pre-recorded. She was the on-set trainer for the TV Special "2014 Hero Dog Awards", the...See more

Christina Potter's over twenty-five years of training dogs have taught her more than her Masters Degree in Canine Psychology ever could. She has worked with many breeds such as Golden Retrievers, Chinese Cresteds, Berger Picards, and even an Afghan Hound. She has spent thousands of hours handling dogs for print ads, websites, motion capture for video games, commercials, and television shows--both live and pre-recorded. She was the on-set trainer for the TV Special "2014 Hero Dog Awards", the series "The Good Cop" (2017), the short film "And She Was My Eve" (2013) and feature films "Funny Games" (2007), "As Good As Dead" (2010), "Our Idiot Brother" (2011), "Second Act" (2018) and "Brittany Runs a Marathon" (2018). She has also trained and titled dogs in Rally, Competitive Obedience, Conformation, Agility and Trick Dog. She is the multiple-award-winning author of "Chester Gigolo: Diary of a Dog Star" (2012), "Insider Training: Chester Gigolo's Dog Training Secrets Revealed" (2016), "Head of the Pack: Chester Gigolo's Advanced Dog Training Secrets" (2017), and "Pepe Learns to Run Again" (2018). She is a contributing author to "Animal Stars: Behind the Scenes with Your Favorite Animal Actors" (2014). Since June 5, 2017, she has been a weekly columnist for the Three Dog Bakery company. She has written numerous articles which have appeared in multiple national and international publications. She is a member of the Dog Writers Association of America, and lives in the NY city area with her three dogs: Chester, Pepe and Rodney. See less