British journalist and author (born 1945)
Celia Haddon (born 1945) is a British journalist, author and expert on feline behaviour.[1] Her books have sold over 1 million copies.[2]
Early life
Haddon attended The School of St Helen and St Katherine, Abingdon and Queen Anne's School. She studied English Literature from 1962 to 1965 at Newnham College, Cambridge. She obtained a masters degree in clinical animal behaviour from the University of Lincoln in 2018.[2]
Career
Her 40 published books include a series of best-selling small books about cats, most successful of which is One Hundred Ways for a Cat to Train its Human (Hodder & Stoughton 2001). She wrote three romances under the pseudonym Caroline Courtney. From 1996 to 2007 she wrote a weekly column as 'pet agony aunt' for the British daily newspaper, The Daily Telegraph.[3] For her services to animal welfare she won the Blue Cross Award of 1997.[4]
She has written for the Daily Mail, The Sun and the Sunday Times. She has co-authored one peer-reviewed article, "Love in Cold Blood: Are Reptile Owners Emotionally Attached to Their Pets" in the journal Anthrozoös, in 2021.[5]
