David Alderton

This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "David Alderton" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

David Alderton is an English writer specialising in pets and natural history topics. Growing up in a home surrounded by pets, he originally trained to become a veterinary surgeon. An allergic dermatitis acquired in his final year of study forced a change of career however, and so led him into the field of writing about pets and their care. He has since become a regular contributor of articles on this subject to a wide range of newspapers and magazines in the UK and abroad, and also participates frequently in radio and television programmes.^{[citation needed]} As of 2010 his books have sold over five million copies,^[1] and have been translated into 30 different languages.^[2] Alderton's titles have won awards in the US from the Cat Writers' Association of America and the Maxwell Medallion from the Dog Writers' Association of America, as well as being nominated for the Sir Peter Kent Conservation Book Prize.^{[citation needed]} He has also chaired the National Council for Aviculture, the umbrella organisation for bird-keeping clubs and associations in the UK.^[3]