“Lucy has infectious enthusiasm when it comes to dogs and training – she makes you look at your dog in a whole new light”
Hi I’m Lucy! I’m a professional dog trainer with 20 years experience, and at heart I’m still just that little girl who is obsessed with dogs. I’m a member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers (01143) and I only use kind, reward based training methods.
I’m probably most well known for reaching the final of Britain’s Got Talent with my little pal Trip Hazard in 2016, for placing 5th on Britain’s Got Talent 2024 and for our enormous following on TikTok (2 million).
I specialise in Heelwork to Music and trick training – I am the FCI European Open Freestyle Champion 2024 with Trip Hazard and the FCI European Open Reserve Heelwork to Music Champion with Foxy.
My biggest passion is my event performance work. I love giving family-friendly, entertaining and educational performances all over the UK with my own dogs, getting the audience engaged and involved.
I have qualified for the Crufts finals (the top 10 in the UK) 16 times and been selected for Heelwork to Music Team GB 4 times with 4 different dogs, contributing to 3 Gold winning teams. I am also a qualified Heelwork to Music judge.
I also work as an animal trainer and handler for film and television. Some of the more recent projects I have worked on are the latest We Buy Any Car advert with Foxy (Charlotte Wilde Film & TV Animals) and the hit Netflix series Bridgerton, training and handling Queen Charlotte’s Pomeranians in series 1, 2 and 3 (Birds & Animals UK). Trip was in a recent episode of Silent Witness (Birds and Animals UK).
As well as training and handling animals behind the scenes, my dogs and I have made frequent television appearances over the years including That Dog Can Dance, The Alan Titchmarsh Show, Britain’s Got Talent, Britain’s Got More Talent, This Morning, CBBC How to be Epic at Everything, Play Your Pets Right on Sky, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The One Show, Blue Peter, The Jeremy Vine Show and BBC Breakfast.
I enjoy many activities with my dogs such as canicross, stand up paddle boarding, hiking and dock jumping.
About the 4 legged team members
Trip Hazard
Trip is a 10 year old Pomeranian cross Maltese and he is an absolute legend. Trip is the FCI European Open Freestyle Champion, made it to the final of Britain’s Got Talent twice (once alone and once with my other dogs), has starred in pantomime at the Liverpool M&S Bank Arena and is a very well trained and experienced film dog, having been in many adverts and had bit parts in TV series such as Ted Lasso, Pennyworth, Silent Witness and 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown.
That aside, he is an absolutely hilarious character, always “talking” in his strange little gurgles and dancing for no reason. He adores people and other dogs and has the innate ability to brighten up anyone’s day with his character.
Stillmoor Star Turn – Foxy
Foxy is a 11 year old Border Collie. She is an Advanced Heelwork to Music and Freestyle dog. Foxy is one of the top Heelwork to Music dogs in the UK, having taken 2nd place at the European Open Championships in Italy in October 2023 and becoming the FCI European Open Reserve Heelwork to Music Champion in Germany in 2024.
Foxy is a real sweetheart and we joke that she has a built in “emotion detector” – if you are sad, before the first tear even falls, she will be snuggled up to you in concern! She is so obsessed with toys that she has even been seen passing toys to the neighbours visitors over the fence so they throw them back into the garden for her!
Stillmoor Here Comes the Sun – Strike
Strike is a 6 year old Border Collie (Foxy’s nephew) and has a starring role in ITV’s “The Secret Life of Our Pets” (now on Netflix as “The Hidden Lives of Pets”) as well as being a key player in our Britain’s Got Talent performances. As soon as Strike was old enough to compete, the pandemic started, so he had a late start. He has blossomed into the most fantastic performer and really gives 100% to everything he does.
Strike flew up through the classes and finished his first year of competing as an Advanced Freestyle dog. He won his first ever Advanced Freestyle class to secure his place in the Crufts Freestyle Semi Finals 2024 and went on to be one of the top 10 to qualify for Crufts 2024 where he absolutely smashed his performance to the Grease Megamix. He is a mummy’s boy through and through, and can be a bit shy with people he doesn’t know.
Halohound Set the Tempo – Tempo
Tempo is a 3 year old Border Collie. She was bred by my friends Lucy and Rob Creek. I loved her parents so much that when I saw they had mated them, I just had to enquire! I am so glad I did. She is everything I could have hoped for and more. She is a sweet, friendly dog with a lovely nature, and when it comes to training and working she is as fast as lightening and so incredibly keen, focused and motivated. She has won every competition we have ever entered, winning up into Advanced Freestyle as fast as it is possible to do so. She will start 2025 in Advanced and I am so excited for her future! She has done some film work and was absolutely amazing on Britain’s Got Talent, performing her amazing CPR trick in the final!
Dizzy
Dizzy, better known as Tiny D, is a 8 year old Pomeranian cross Maltese. She is related to Trip but is a very different dog. She weighs in at a tiny 1.5kg and can’t even jump onto our sofa at home, but she absolutely adores training and showing off! She loves being held, stroked and fawned over by anyone who comes to see us at events.
Dizzy does not compete, but participates in our event displays and has done lots of film work – but her most ideal job was being Paris Hilton’s dog in a Hilton advert! (See picture!)
Emperatrice Romantic Angel – Princess Peach
Peach is a 2 year old Maltese. She is absolutely crazy in the best of ways! All of my dogs love her, she loves all people, she is just a very gregarious and outgoing character! She came out on BGT with her “main character energy” and took the entire experience as though she was born to be a star.
Peach won both competitions she was entered into in 2024, so she will start 2025 in Intermediate Freestyle.
Peach has also done some film work, where she has a small role in Ewen McGregor’s book to TV adaptation “A Gentleman in Moscow” and has a starring role in an American Christmas Advert.
Gone but not forgotten
Tachnamadra Tartan Embers – Ash
Ash was my first proper “dog of my own” and passed away a couple of weeks before his 16th birthday. In his prime he was a super agility dog and dabbled in Heelwork to Music Freestyle, working at Intermediate level with points towards Advanced. He always took part in my event demonstrations and also did film work. Ash liked every dog and every person. You would most likely see Ash at events with us letting him have a wander around the stalls, hoping for some freebie treats!
Foxearth Follow Me – Trent
Trent was a pedigree Smooth Collie – a vulnerable native breed. Trent was a sensitive boy who tried his paws at everything with me – Heelwork to Music, Agility, Obedience. Trent made it to Crufts in 2015 as part of team Smooth Collie in the Obreedience competition. He gained a Silver Versatility award with the Rough and Smooth Collie Training Association. Most of all, he was my buddy. He loved me and he loved every person he met, with his wagging tail and his excited “pufflecheeks”. He left us at 13 years old due to a mystery illness that the vets could not figure out.
Stillmoor Winter Sun – Indie
Indie was a Red Merle Border Collie and she passed away at over 15 years old, sadly taken from us by a brain tumour. Up until the day she died she loved to do training for fun and charge about on our walks like a 3 year old – she was very lucky that she never did age physically really. Indie was one of the top Heelwork to Music dogs in the UK for many years, taking 2nd, 3rd and 4th places in the finals at Crufts. Indie also won the ITV show That Dog Can Dance, judged by Sharon Osborne, Bill Bailey and Ashleigh Butler. She was my soul mate and I owe her so much – she changed my life. Everything that is good in my life came about because of her.
