About WaggyTails

WaggyTails was formed in February 2002 by Sheena Tyrrell-Sheppard KCAI(CD)​ and celebrates its 25th Birthday next year! 

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Sheena has been instructing dog training classes since 1995 and achieved her KCAI (Kennel Club Accredited Instructor in Companion Dogs) in October 2006.  She has attended many dog training courses, health seminars, lectures & workshops and continues to support and develop our WaggyTails instructors to ensure we are delivering a consistent approach across the classes and supporting our clients throughout their dog training journeys. 

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WaggyTails Instructors:

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Chief Instructor: Sophie Rolf PDTI(Adv)

 

Sophie has been teaching dog training classes since 1998, focussing on pet dog and puppy training. Sophie passed her PDTI and PDTI advanced in 2007 and has since been back to the PDTI course in the role of tutor and assessor. Sophie is also a Kennel Club listed Assessor for the Bronze Good Citizen award. 

 

In recent years Sophie has been enjoying training and competing in several different dog sports including Flyball with her own team Dragonflies, KC competitive obedience and Talking Dogs Rally in which she both competes and judges. She also enjoys Canicross with two of her dogs and races locally during the Canicross season. 

 

Sophie’s daughter Beatrice is following in her footsteps with her own dogs, enjoying both training and competing in competitive obedience, qualifying both of her own dogs for Crufts for the past 4 years in the YKC obedience finals and Special Pre Beginner Good Citizen finals, as well as training and competing in Flyball with her own team Dragonflies and qualifying for Crufts Flyball with Tails We Win ‘Tiny Tails’ in 2026. Beatrice has a lovely natural affinity with dogs and her calmness makes her a really effective trainer and teacher.

 

Sophie and Bea have 6 dogs between them; a working cocker, two springer x collies, a border collie and two sports-mix puppies of mixed parentage. 

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Instructors: Lisa, Liz and Bea

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We also have many others helping with the general running of WaggyTails and maintenance of the grounds and equipment.

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