12/08/2026
🐾 COULD WORKING WITH DOGS BE YOUR NEXT CHAPTER? 🐾
We’re looking for two very special people to join Nature Tails and help us take the next step with our growing business! 💙
We’re looking towards early 2027 and have two exciting self-employed opportunities available:
🏠 HOME BOARDING
Welcome our regular Nature Tails dogs into your own home while their families are away.
🐶 IN-HOME PET SITTING
Stay in our clients’ homes and care for their dogs in their own familiar surroundings.
These aren’t occasional side jobs. We’re looking for people who want to make working with dogs their main job, with regular, consistent work and earning potential throughout the year.
💰 THE DEMAND IS ALREADY THERE
This isn’t an opportunity where you’ll be expected to start from scratch and slowly build up your own client base.
Nature Tails Home Boarding is regularly fully booked throughout the year, and during peak periods we’re constantly receiving requests for additional bookings that we simply don’t have the capacity to accommodate.
That’s one of the reasons we’re looking for two people rather than one.
The clients are already there.
The demand is already there.
The bookings are already coming in.
Nature Tails will continue to manage the bookings and provide the clients, allowing you to concentrate on what you’re actually joining us to do – look after the dogs. 🐾
For the right people, there will also be opportunities to become involved with Nature Tails Dog Walking, creating the potential for additional regular work and earnings alongside boarding or pet sitting.
We think this could work particularly well for our Pet Sitter – dog walking during the day and pet sitting overnight could develop into a fantastic full-time opportunity for someone who genuinely wants to build their working life around dogs.
🐾 Regular year-round work
🐾 An already established client base
🐾 Existing demand that regularly exceeds our current capacity
🐾 No need to advertise or find your own clients
🐾 Potential for additional work through Dog Walking
🐾 Self-employed opportunity
🐾 Holidays and time off still encouraged
🏠 INTERESTED IN HOME BOARDING?
You’ll need to be based in Kilmarnock, have a suitable home with a secure garden and be willing to obtain the appropriate Home Boarding Licence.
You don’t need to already have a licence. We’ll help and support the successful person throughout the licensing process.
We’re initially looking for a household with no children, cats or resident dogs, although we would consider an exceptional candidate whose circumstances we believe could work safely.
🐶 INTERESTED IN PET SITTING?
You’ll need to be comfortable staying overnight in our clients’ homes, sometimes for several nights at a time, and being trusted with their dogs, homes and belongings.
This could be an especially exciting opportunity for someone who wants to earn their living working with dogs but doesn’t have the circumstances required to provide Home Boarding themselves.
❤️ WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR
Professional dog experience would be great – but it’s not essential.
We’re much more interested in finding someone who is:
🐾 Completely dog obsessed
🐾 Reliable and trustworthy
🐾 Confident with dogs of all breeds, sizes and strengths
🐾 Flexible around weekends and busy holiday periods
🐾 A full UK driving licence holder
🐾 Looking for something long-term
🐾 And, most importantly, someone who shares the Nature Tails attitude towards dogs
You’ll work closely alongside Ben & Megan initially, with introductions, shadowing and trial days/nights before taking bookings independently.
We’re not looking to fill these positions as quickly as possible.
We’re looking for the RIGHT people.
People we’d happily trust with our own Ralph & Lola and who could become a genuine part of Nature Tails for years to come. 💙
If you’ve ever thought about earning your living doing something you genuinely love without having to spend years building the client base yourself, this could be a very exciting opportunity.
📩 Interested? Send us a private message and we’ll send you our short application form.
Full details regarding rates, earning potential and the self-employed structure will be discussed privately with suitable applicants.
And if you’re reading this thinking “I know someone who would be PERFECT for this…” please tag them or send this their way! 🐾💙