Jackie Drakeford

A Sussex-based countryside writer with a special interest in lurchers, Jackie was born and brought up in the New Forest and has had a lifelong interest in horses and working dogs. She is well known as a lurcher showing and obedience judge and judges at ferret shows too, works, trains and occasionally breeds her own working lurchers, and is involved in lurcher rescue. A Kennel Club accredited instructor and behaviourist and a founding member of the GEM Ferret Care Group, she is a widely respected author of dog-care titles, among them Understanding the Working Lurcher, The House Lurcher, The Working Lurcher: The Traditional Skills and Working Ferrets, and has hunted with lurchers from the south coast to the northernmost tip of Scotland.