Doherty Dog Services

27/11/2025

Great opportunity for someone looking to get more experience with animals and work for a great charity

🐾 WE’RE HIRING! Join the Lord Whisky Animal Sanctuary Team 🐾

We currently have two part-time positions available and are looking for dedicated, hardworking animal lovers to join us!

​🐶 Kennel Hand

Days: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday
Hours: 5 hours AM + 4 hours PM (PM hours as and when needed)

About the role:
Our Kennel Hands play an essential part in caring for the dogs at the sanctuary. Duties include:
• Feeding, cleaning kennels, and maintaining high welfare standards
• Walking dogs, providing enrichment, and supporting socialisation
• General cleaning, laundry, and ensuring kennels remain safe and tidy
• Assisting the team with additional tasks as required

​😺 Cattery Hand

Days: Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday
Hours: Same as Kennel Hand (5 hours AM + 4 hours PM as needed)

About the role:
Cattery Hands help care for the cats at the sanctuary. Duties include:
• Feeding, cleaning pens, and monitoring cat health and behaviour
• Providing enrichment, comfort, and social interaction
• Ensuring all areas remain clean, safe, and hygienic
• Supporting the team with daily routines and extra tasks

We’re looking for someone who:

✔ Loves animals and is passionate about welfare
✔ Is reliable, hard-working, and able to work in all weathers
✔ Works well as part of a team
✔ Has experience with animals (preferred but not essential)

📩 To apply:
Please email your CV and covering letter to: [email protected]

🐶🐱 We look forward to hearing from you!

23/11/2025

13 years together today! All these pictures are pre-Duke, pre-Doherty Dog Services and pre-kids... We look like teenagers, you wouldn't recognise us nowadays 😂

22/11/2025

Meet the Team 🐶

Here's our lovely dog walker Claire, who joined the DDS team in February 2024. She's a hugely important part of our team - not only is she beloved by all our wonderful dogs but she's a fab team player and always goes out of her way to help us and our clients out and keeps things ticking over like clockwork. She's a superstar! 🐶♥️

18/11/2025

Struggling to get your pup to stop toileting inside? It's usually one of these issues! How long did take toilet training take your puppy? Let me know in the comments 🐶♥️

16/11/2025

When should I start puppy training?

Your puppy is constantly learning! 🐶♥️

12/11/2025

One space left on my Ultimate Puppy Training Programme for 2025! After that books are closed until January so if you are looking for help with your puppy, shoot me a message and let's chat! 🐶♥️

10/11/2025

When we first brought home our spaniel puppy, Duke, I did what we all do and got us booked into our local puppy class. It was a fiver per class, a steal I thought.

Every week for 6 weeks we got ourselves to the village hall (except for the couple we missed because we couldn’t make that time). We stood around with Duke bouncing around at the end of the lead, desperate to meet every other pup.

The hall was massive and split into three sections by curtains, so there were two other classes happening at the same time. There were around 30 dogs and owners in this hall- you can imagine the noise!

At the end of the course, Duke ‘graduated’ and we had our little certificate. We’d learnt a few useful bits and some fun stuff. But we spent most of the time trying to get Duke to stop desperately pulling towards other dogs and chewing the lead like mad because he was so hyped up.

The class wasn’t bad, but it didn’t help the problems we were really having with Duke at home.

It didn’t stop the biting. It didn’t stop him destroying my shoes and eating the legs of our kitchen table. It didn’t stop the relentless jumping up.

It didn’t help me understand when he was over-stimulated and needed help regulating his emotions, versus when he was bored and restless.

Yes, we could walk through a gate. We could walk up and down a hall. But those aren’t the skills I really needed to enjoy life with my puppy. I was just as overwhelmed by his behaviour and unclear on how to calm him down as I was at the beginning of the course.

Years later, I would run my own puppy classes. After three blocks, I stopped running them. Because despite my best efforts, I wasn’t able to help my puppy owners with the problems they were actually experiencing with their puppies at home. When I created my Ultimate Puppy Training Programme, I knew that each programme would be completely based around the needs and lifestyle of the individual families I worked with.

Because a Daschund puppy living in a central town flat needs a very different training plan from a Labrador puppy living in a rural village. One size just does not fit all when it comes to puppy training.

07/11/2025

Ive got space for just one more puppy for my 3 month training programme before the end of 2025! DM me to book in a call and give your puppy the best first start 🐶♥️

05/11/2025

Do not let your puppy approach every single dog they see. It's bad manners and it'll make your recall training much harder in the long term.

03/11/2025

There's no way around it- getting a puppy will be a lot of work. There's going to be constant supervision of your pup in the early days if you want them toilet trained, redirecting them to toys & chews over and over again when they're bitey and making sure they get enough sleep so they're not a wild little beastie.

But will it be worth it? Abso-frickin-lotely. And it's so, so much easier when you get the right help and support. 🐶♥️

02/11/2025

My top picks for new puppy owners from Not For Humans

1 and 2- Bully puzzles and cows ears are great options for bitey pups. Suitable for 12 weeks +, long lasting chews like this are ideal for giving your pup an appropriate thing to chew on (rather than your shoes) and helping them to relax.
3 - Not for Humans stock a great range of training treats- ideal for keeping by the back door to reward your pip every time they toilet outside instead on the carpet!
4- You want to have a good stock of puppy safe toys in easy access so you can redirect your pup to them when needed. There's lots of great options in store - I treated Duke to their stick toy and he's loving it!

One of my favourite things about is that not only is there a great selection of great toys, treats and chews available, but the wonderful Debbie refuses to sell any aversive or punishment based training tools. Pop in and support local next time you need to top up your puppy supplies 🐶♥️

01/11/2025

For my Canterbury based dog folks- I just wanted to give a shout out to Greendogs decompression walks. The fantastic Laura Green runs these out in nature, lots of space and in quite low traffic areas . Great for all dogs , but especially nervous dogs who need time away from the pressures of the human world !
I've worked with Laura for years with our Duke and across a number of shared cases and can highly recommend getting in touch with her if you're looking for help with your dog in the Canterbury area.
Contact Greendogs through the website greendogs.co.uk
Or call on 07702601900