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Bring your energy. Bring your love of dogs.
Join a busy, friendly local team working across pet retail, doggy daycare, grooming, customer service, and professional training.
Why Jollytails
Jollytails is a multi-location pet-care business serving Halifax and Dartmouth through doggy daycare, training, grooming, and pet retail. The work is active, practical, and centred on helping dogs and their people have better days.
Teams and roles
Openings change, but these are some of the roles Jollytails regularly recruits for.
Now hiring
Jollytails is actively hiring daycare attendants for our Burnside location at 40 Joseph Zatzman Drive in Dartmouth. This is active, hands-on work supervising dog playgroups, maintaining clean spaces, and supporting safe, positive daycare days.
Now hiring
Jollytails is actively hiring customer service and sales associates for both Halifax locations and our Burnside location in Dartmouth. This role includes welcoming clients, assisting with bookings and appointments, answering questions, and helping customers choose suitable services and pet products.
Welcome clients, help with bookings and appointments, answer questions, and guide customers toward the right services and pet products. Sales experience is helpful; a warm, knowledgeable attitude is essential.
View job descriptionManage and monitor active playgroups with dogs of every size. This is physical, hands-on work that includes time outdoors in rain, snow, wind, and sunshine—and plenty of everyday cleanup.
View job descriptionProvide grooming services for dogs of all breeds in a busy salon. Jollytails asks candidates to have professional grooming experience and be ready to work independently with care and confidence.
View job descriptionSupport high-demand programs ranging from puppy and adolescent classes to therapy-dog preparation, agility, and reactive-dog training. Experienced trainers looking for a place to grow are encouraged to apply.
View job descriptionHow to apply
The application is simple, but Jollytails wants to get a sense of your personality, experience, and motivation—not just receive a generic résumé.
Have your résumé ready and include a thoughtful cover letter explaining why you want to work at Jollytails and what would make you a strong hire.
You do not need to create an account. Fill in your information and paste your résumé into the online form so it can be submitted directly to Jollytails.
You are welcome to visit a location and leave a résumé in person, but please complete the online application as well so your information reaches the hiring team.
Application information is used only for its intended employment purpose. Complete the secure online application to send your information directly to the Jollytails hiring team.
Training pathway
Jollytails also offers information about a hands-on Dog Training & Behaviour Consultant Apprenticeship. The program combines lectures, structured study, case work, one-on-one training, and experience assisting with live group classes.
Come work with us
Qualified animal lovers are encouraged to apply, even when a specific role is not listed.
