Toni was born in Armidale, Australia, and grew up on the East coast of England. She graduated from the University of Kent at Canterbury with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and earned a Masters degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York. She worked as a journalist for more than two decades before switching to dog training.
Toni lives on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC and can frequently be seen at Eastern Market and surrounding neighborhoods training your dogs and and socializing your puppies.