Catherine Hartree

An animal-care worker who has spent three years employed within the animal-care industry. My job experience of running my own dog walking and petcare business has led me to maintain excellent working relationships with clients, acquiring over fifty amazing reviews from them. My level 2 dog grooming course, shows that I have experience in a pet grooming environment and have a picture portfolio of the dogs I have groomed.

Volunteer Dog Groomer - Wild Bush Dog Grooming

(2026-05)

• Bathing and drying dogs and performing supervised grooms on dogs where I am able to help with clipping and trimming the dogs
• Monitor their behaviour during the grooms to minimise stress levels for the dogs
• Meeting clients and liaising about how much fur they would like clipped off their dog

Self-Employed Business Owner - Dog Walker & Pet Carer - Paws & Sunshine

(2023-11)

Duties include dog walking and housesitting for a variety of different breeds. Maintaining excellent working relationships with clients by ensuring that their pets feel comfortable around me, and that there is excellent communication between us by updating them about how their pets are, as well as being reliable and punctual when arriving at their household to take care of their pets. Built a business through using websites such as Rover to make it easy for clients can contact me.

Full Time Farmyard & Livestock Co-ordinator - Vauxhall City Farm

(2023-03 - 2023-08)

• Making sure that all animals had their husbandry needs met
• Took part in leading a team of volunteers, as well as training new ones, showing them step-by-step how to complete farmyard tasks, some of which had never worked with animals before
• Office work regarding filling out animal booking forms and responding to emails
• Assisting with animal encounter sessions to make sure that the animals are handled safely
• Assisted in farm events that took place in another location and sometimes lasted for multiple days. Experience with transporting animals safely

Full Time Baking Assistant - Good Cake Day

(2021-08 - 2022-11)

• Learnt about cake baking and cake decorating skills
• Working under pressure when there is a lot of work to be done, and staying till late at night to make sure that it's completed

Animal Care Level 2 Technical Diploma - Animal Care - Capel Manor College (2018 - 2021)

Animal Care Level 3 National Diploma - Animal Care - Capel Manor College (2018 - 2021)

GCSEs - General Education - Waldegrave School (2013 - 2018)