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Welcome to MyWaggyTails Inverness

MyWaggyTails is a fully insured 5-star rated professional pet-care business.

We specialise in Toy, Small and Medium sized dogs. MyWaggyTails is THE choice for caring owners and their discerning pets.

If you are looking for dog walking, pet sitting and pet home care services in Inverness around Dalneigh, Ballifeary, Scourguie, Kinmylies, Leachkin, Bught, Clachnaharry and Holm then you’ve come to the right place.

Meet Diane

A teensie weensie bit about me (in case you want to know a bit about this animal groupie who occasionally feels guilty for relating more to pets than people (my people skills have got better over the years!).

Let me start with the Why. Why petcare?

I have always wanted to work with animals. I studied Biology and Chemistry at university and most of my working life has been in microbiology in the food industry with several companies around England. Having returned to my home town of Inverness I then spent about 10 years travelling the North and the North East as a retail auditor, carrying out a range of audits, including food safety and health and safety for major supermarkets, restaurant chains, etc.

Then when the company changed hands a few years ago and the new management came in, attitudes changed, the focus on priorities changed. It resulted in the loss of our biggest customer, someone I’d worked with for many years… it was frustrating, disappointing. I felt a bit lost. I couldn’t see something else beyond that.

I looked around… but the biology/microbiology opportunities in Inverness…well, let’s say there’s a lack of them. The only thing that was coming up, was Retail – and sadly that seems shaky at best and it wasn’t where my heart lay.

Then I saw the opportunity to launch my own petcare business here in Inverness and I thought to myself, it’s now or never.

So, I took a deep breath and studied for my dog walking and pet sitting diploma and my Level 3 VTQ in First Aid for Pets. I’ve also taken a course with the Institute of Modern Dog Trainers. And I’ve been DBS security checked plus, I’m fully insured. Please ask to see my certificates.

I have owned several dogs over the years. When I lived in Shrewsbury I volunteered as a dog walker at the Dogs Trust there. My last dog was a Rotty, Stella. She was a rescue. I miss her. Sadly, she got a kidney infection and I lost her.

Ironically, in my former life I had Pets at Home as a customer for many years. I was responsible for visiting branches and checking their pet care quality standards. The Pet Care Trust quality assurance standard for pet retailers is a retail standard for the inspection of pet retailers – similar to a BSI standard. It sets out agreed levels of good practice and it gives the pet-owning public reassurance about the health and welfare of the animals and about the specialist knowledge of the approved retailer.

So my process, quality control and auditing background meant I had to check others on:-

buying animals
animal care and hygiene
animal health and welfare
staff training and animal knowledge
health and safety
rabbits and rodents
birds
reptiles and amphibians

…and ornamental fish.

So at MyWaggyTails, I’m simply applying my years of practice to help pet owners. And yes, you read that correctly. I’ve trained in the care of amphibians, reptiles and invertebrates – I even have a certificate for that too! I should also add our previous family pets and animals have also included hens, cats, budgies, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, tropical fish and….stick insects!