Furry Tails Dog World

Rachel is the lead trainer at Furry Tails and draws on over a decade of experience working with canine behaviour.  Rachel is responsible for the design and coordination of our courses, ensuring both you and your dog can build skills, games and confidence week by week, whether you are an experienced dog-owner or bringing your first puppy!

As well as being an Absolute dogs Pro Dog trainer, Rachel is also an accredited Kennel club companion dog instructor

Rachel has professional qualifications in dog training from IMDT, Compass, The Centre of Excellence, Alpha Education, ‘Think Dog’ by Sarah Whitehead and a Level 3 Professional Daycare and Boarding Certificate.

Rachel has also trained alongside a Crufts Obedience winner who has taught her the foundation of her skills she possesses today. Having previously held training classes and socialisation groups for a North West company, Rachel has successfully accredited dogs through all stages of the Kennel Club Good Citizen dog scheme with her own dogs. 

Rachel has had a lifelong love of dogs and has long supported rescue dogs through The Dogs Trust charity and local rescue centres. Her own rescued furry friends helped to build her interest in behavioural therapy for dogs and she has rehabilitated her latest rescue, Katie, with positive behaviour techniques to bring out the happy, confident side of this lovely collie Cross. 

With this experience, Rachel is able to draw upon a wide range of techniques and skills to help people of all ages and abilities to successfully communicate with our canine friends in a fun and rewarding way.

We believe a well-trained puppy is key to having a harmonious household, that’s why our courses not only help you with training your puppy but to understand their behaviour, how to help them settle and how to bring up a happy, attentive puppy.

Our courses are revolutionary to the industry and look at the whole life of your puppy, not just for a short course. We want to help you get as much from a puppy training course as possible to set you up for life, with games based learning sessions, we make learning fun! They are a combination of online videos (which can be watched to suit you) and in-person sessions each week so you get the most out of your time with us.

Tiny Tails puppy package: £109

• 5-week in-person course (30 min sessions – puppies have a very-short attention span and learning needs to be done in small bite-size pieces for successful skill learning)

• 5- weeks of video classes (These are Video links so can be watched to suit you, are about 25-mins long and are sent weekly) 

• 5-weeks of dedicated support in our Facebook group (don’t ask Google, ask Furry Tails) 

• Weekly training and Behaviour guides

• Welcome Pack which includes training treats and natural puppy Chew treats!

• Free PlayTails session

• £10 off Terrific Tails course (mention this when booking your next course!) 

Areas we cover during the course:

Recalls

Attention and focus games

Destructive Chewing and puppy biting
Attention behaviours – Jumping, excessive Barking, settling Down
Toilet Training

Loose Lead walking
Handling (Vets and Groomers)

Basic obedience cues

Enrichment and socialisation

Home alone, separation Anxiety and how to prevent/help

Night issues and crate training

Self-control games

Types of training methods, management and tools

Doggy daycare 

RSPCA Research suggests that 85 percent of dogs may be struggling to cope when left alone. It’s shocking to think that more than seven million of our four-legged friends could be feeling frightened, lonely or sad when home alone. 

Our daycare is based at Wallasey. your dogs will have fun, enrichment exercises, affection, companionship and plenty of time to play. Unlike many daycare centres, we not only offer companionship for your dogs all day. We have a 6000 sq. ft outside secure dog area and we also have indoor areas that can be used for older dogs and puppies to have some peace and quiet for sleep.

We have a large range of toys, enrichment games and soft play. In hot weather we also have a paddling pool so that the dogs can enjoy a lovely cool down. We have other equipment for activities, such as agility, scentwork and a mini dog-gym. Younger dogs, who have not yet finished growing, will be restricted in the amount of these types of activities That they are allowed to engage in for health reasons (Please see below for puppy details).

The main goal of each day is a combination of fun, physical exercise, mental stimulation, socialisation, companionship and rest. With that in mind, we break the day into different activities. These include free play, training, focused exercises, agility, puzzle brain games and lots more. We only use grain-free, high quality training treats from Bounce and Bella in our enrichment sessions and we provide a cool environment in the summer and a warm, comfortable home from home in the winter.

Whatever the exercise requirements or activity levels of your dog, we aim to give them what they need and choose. All of this enables you to leave your dog knowing that they are safe and well-cared for and it ensures that you will return home with a happy, contented and tired dog.

Your dog will be in a group to suit their age, play style and size and we want to make sure you and your doggy are happy with the centre and the group before they come to visit us daily. With this in mind, we give you a FREE 2-hour trial where we ask you to come to help them settle, then leave them with us to see how they get on. This is in the best interest of everyone. But rememeber, daycare is not for every dog and we will always advise you on whether it is suitable for your dog specifically.  

We have a dog trainer present every day, so you never know the tricks your dog might learn! Because we are a positive reinforcement training company, you can feel happy in the knowledge that we know how to treat dogs in their best interest.