With a few plans in place and with the right clients, it’s perfectly possible to be a dog walker around school hours, in fact, most professional dog walkers are at their busiest between 11 am and 2 pm. Can I be a term time only dog walker? Absolutely! The Hours Most clients want their dogs […]
When you first start up you might want, or need, to use your current vehicle for dog walking and most of the time this will be a car. Plenty of successful, happy dog walkers and their dogs are working daily from their cars. So let’s delve into a common startup question. Do I need a
What is the law regarding dog tags in the UK? Here’s the actual wording from the control of dogs order 1992 legislation; 2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, every dog while in a highway or in a place of public resort shall wear a collar with the name and address of the owner inscribed on
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The number of dogs that you can walk at once will depend on a lot of different factors. Some will be legal restrictions but others will be based more on common sense, your experience and your environment. TLDR: How many dogs can you legally walk at once in the UK? Your insurance usually limits you
What is it? DBS stands for the Disclosure and Barring Service. They are an agency that performs background checks on individuals in order to detail any previous, unspent convictions and conditional cautions. So what’s a DBS check in layman’s terms? It looks to see if you have a criminal record. What’s the difference between a
Being entrusted with someone’s family member is an absolute honour. So it makes sense that being a professional dog walker is more than just a job. Starting up in this industry can be overwhelming at first. Starting up: As you start to build your business new questions arise. Client building: And you can never predict,
