About Dina - Dina Zaphiris "Be The Squirrel"!

Dina Zaphiris has been a professional
dog trainer for over 30 years.

She was on the first American team of dog trainers to train dogs for federally funded studies involving dogs detecting early stage human cancer. Her work has been published in two medical journals.

Dina Zaphiris

Dina Zaphiris is a world-renowned dog trainer, behavior expert, and pioneer in canine medical scent detection. With over 30 years of experience, she’s worked with Hollywood celebrities, led mission-ready search and rescue teams, and trained dogs for groundbreaking cancer detection research published in medical journals. Her non-profit, In Situ Foundation, has trained dogs for early detection of cancer and infections in collaboration with institutions like UC Davis, Duke University, and Enloe Regional Cancer Center. A former Animal Planet host and resident animal expert on NBC’s The Bonnie Hunt Show, she’s also trained thousands of pet dogs, transforming the lives of both animals and their humans. Her approach is deeply intuitive—she doesn’t just train dogs, she changes lives. Dina Zaphiris is the author of The Behavior Savior and the newly released 101 Mistakes Humans Make to Mess Up Their Dogs.

Seeing eye dogs, bomb-detection dogs, search and rescue dogs, and cancer detection dogs are my inspiration.

Very few creatures have coevolved the way man and dog have. We have actually effected each other’s evolution. Dogs guarded our agriculture, livestock, and our communities, helping man to make it past the agricultural stage, and bringing us to where we are now. We, in turn, have allowed these wonderful dogs into our homes, forever changing their evolution, as well."

Dina Zaphiris