David Cavill trained as a teacher and taught for over 23 years. He has been a Fellow of the Institute of Directors since 1984 and became a member of the Institute of Management in 1987.

He is an experienced writer and broadcaster on all subjects related to companion animals and for four years had a regular weekly pet 'slot' on Jenny Hanley's afternoon show on Saga Radio.

He publishes the weekly publications Our Dogs and Cats and owned the magazine Dogs Monthly from 1992 until 1997. He has written three books about dogs with a fourth, Running Your Own Boarding Kennels now in its fourth edition. He devised Dog Directory and created the Eukanuba Rescue Dog of the Year Competition. He writes regularly for Dogs Monthly and Our Dogs.

He was a board member of the National Training Organisation for Animal Care for 15 years, represented the Association of British Dogs Homes on the late Lord Houghton's committee set up to reform the UK's Dangerous Dogs Act and is Chairman of the Aniclliary Services Section of the Pet Care Trust (formerly the Pet Trade and Industry Association) as well as a Director of the Pet Care Trust. He was a Trustee of the Charity PRO Dogs for ten years and served on the Dog Legislation Advisory Group. He founded the Animal Care College in 1980 and the College now provides courses in most areas and at many levels of animal care. The courses include the training of kennelstaff, rescue and rehoming staff, judge and breeder education, understanding canine and feline psychology, animal behaviour, the development of kennel management skills and veterinary nursing. He is a Kennel Club Approved Trainer.

For the past 20 years his holding company (RTC Associates) has been coverholders for Showsurance, a Third Party Liability scheme especially designed for canine associations.

As a consultant to the animal care industry he is in demand as an advisor to manufacturers, breeders, retailers, conference and exhibition organisers and show managements. He has also been an advisor to Which? magazine in relation to boarding kennels. He has been closely involved with the Samsung company both in the UK and in Korea in helping the company chairman fulfil his vision of a change in Korean attitude to dogs and other pet animals.

With his wife, Angela, he was joint manager of Bell Mead, Battersea Dogs' Home's Country Kennels at Old Windsor for eleven years so he has also been deeply involved in the world of stray and rescue dogs and cats. Bell Mead was the UK's most prestigious kennelstaff training college, boarded over 120 dogs, eighty cats, and housed and cared for 180 of Battersea's dogs as well as having had a very busy grooming parlour. Prior to this position he was a director of a major boarding and quarantine kennel which incorporated a large pet store and from 1990 to 1996 was part owner of a small boarding kennels near Bristol.

He first became involved with the world of dogs as a breeder of Finnish Spitz. He was a committee member of the Finnish Spitz Club and ran the Nordic Open show for several years in the 1970s. With Angela, who was herself Secretary and subsequently Chairman of the FS Club, he owns the 'Toveri' kennel name, one of the U.K.'s most successful breeding prefixes.

He is show manager and Chairman of Southern Counties Canine Association, one of the U.K.'s major dog shows, served as Vice chairman of The Kennel Club Breed Liaison Council for six years, was a member of The Kennel Club Working Party on shows development and judges training and is President of the British Rottweiler Association.

He is a well-known judge in most breeds officiating regularly in Britain and abroad. He is passed to award Challenge Certificates in sixteen breeds (Rottweilers, Border Collies, Belgian Shepherd Dogs, Samoyeds, Norwegian Buhunds, Schipperkes, Keeshonds, Japanese Spitz, German Spitz, Leonbergers, Japanese Akitas, Swedish Vallhunds, Finnish Spitz and Siberian Huskies) across three groups and passed to judge the Working and Pastoral Groups as well as Best In Show at Championship Shows.

During his time as a district councillor he served as Chairman of Bracknell Forest Borough Council's Environmental Services Committee.

Despite his involvement with the world of dogs he has been owned for many years by a succession of cats. Mr. Brooks, a black cat of considerable presence, was the latest in a long line of feline companions.

His main outside interests are theatre, all forms of music but especially blues and mainstream jazz vocalists, travel, eating and drinking - not necessarily in that order. He is a member of the Savage Club and the 606 Jazz Club.