You can now get paid £24K to play with puppies all day here in Manchester

A new role based in Manchester is the ultimate dream job, as it involves playing with and caring for puppies all day long.

Yappy.com, a personalised online shop for dogs, cats and their adoring owners, is on the look out for a ‘chief puppy officer’, a role that involves a lot of cute puppies in dire need of fuss, attention and love.

The enviable role will also involve taking charge and entertaining the dogs of the Yappy team while their owners are hard at work creating personalised dog gifts for over 420 breeds.

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The chief puppy officer will be expected to play with their dogs while ensuring they’re entertained and stimulated – it’s a hard job but someone has to do it.

Though it is worth noting that it won’t just be 24/7 playing – the successful candidate will also be required to carry out market research with each office dog, providing written feedback on a range of toys, bandanas, treats and accessories to help the yappy.com team create more products.

Yappy.com has also detailed a little more about what the role entails:

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Key responsibilities include:

Ensuring the dogs are happy, entertained, comfortable, and safe at all times, working with the office dogs to provide market research on a variety of Yappy products, tailoring the dogs’ daily activities for different personalities, providing its dog family with the best toys, treats, play and relaxation as required.

The perfect candidate will be:

Dog-obsessed, with a camera roll full of pups to prove it, highly experienced at handling dogs and an instinctive understanding of their needs, a tummy tickler experience level ‘expert’, and fully-committed to delivering the very best ‘dog days’ for Yappy’s dog family.

Reckon you’re up to the role? To be in with a chance, you’ll need to over eighteen years of age, be able to say why you’re fit for the job in no more than 200 words and apply through the Yappy.com website here.

Good luck!