Professional Dog Walker's Corner. Muddy pawprints and poobags a speciality...

[AlpacaLypse]

I keep being asked on MN about how I set up my dogwalking business, and I know I'm not the only one of us on here, so this thread is (a) so that I can type out my advice just once, and then next time I'm asked I can just send people a link to here and (b) maybe a place we can all chatter about the highs and lows of taking care of other people's pets.

I'll pm all the posters who I know do this, but anyone else feel free to join in too!

Some thoughts about vehicle security... I was talking about this with a couple of the other local professionals, we discovered that between us we've had five vehicles broken into while we were walking in the past two years. I've decided to give up locking the dog-mobile and unless it's wet I leave windows open to show that smashing glass isn't necessary. Everything that could possible be a massive pain to replace comes out on the walk - money, phone, all the keys etc. If a thief wants my lunchbox that badly the scumbag is welcome to it.