How much would you pay for a dog walker?
- Thread starter Julee
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I've never found a dog walker I would have felt comfortable allowing to take my dogs for a half hour/hour. Neither one of my dogs really needs leash walks anyway (and I certainly don't trust anyone to take them off-leash hiking other than a few friends).
I have and still do pay $10 for someone to come take them out for potty breaks if I'm going to be gone for a good hunk of the day. Maybe 5 minutes of their time. Meg won't go outside with anyone she doesn't know incredibly well anyway, so it basically is "put a leash on Gusto, walk him to the corner, put him back in the house and give them both a cookie".
I know when I was calling around trying to decide what to do with them, $15 and $18 were the prices I was quoted for one dog for a half hour. I think it was an additional $5 for a second dog if they could be walked together. Both places seemed to have that policy.
I have and still do pay $10 for someone to come take them out for potty breaks if I'm going to be gone for a good hunk of the day. Maybe 5 minutes of their time. Meg won't go outside with anyone she doesn't know incredibly well anyway, so it basically is "put a leash on Gusto, walk him to the corner, put him back in the house and give them both a cookie".
I know when I was calling around trying to decide what to do with them, $15 and $18 were the prices I was quoted for one dog for a half hour. I think it was an additional $5 for a second dog if they could be walked together. Both places seemed to have that policy.
Honestly, it very much depends on location, city, location of our home, special circumstances (dogs are super shy, super reactive, pull like freight trains) but this is the average I would spend (and is the range I get paid)
I'm a dog walker and that's about average for the city for 20 minutes-30 minutes. There are also discounts of course for those on the "regular schedule" (monday-friday) and those with multiple dogs in the same home.
and of course there are discounts for those who just want potty breaks. Those are 10 minutes long about and it's just walking them to "their spots" and letting them potty.
That said, we DO NOT do group walks and that's a service I would expect to pay much less for if I was open to it.
I walk one dog at a time, at most 2-3 if the dogs are small and know eachother or live together (the only group of 3 we have are a group of frenchies who really get along very well)
and I of course would want background checks of the walkers and a solid business behind them.
I'm a dog walker and that's about average for the city for 20 minutes-30 minutes. There are also discounts of course for those on the "regular schedule" (monday-friday) and those with multiple dogs in the same home.
and of course there are discounts for those who just want potty breaks. Those are 10 minutes long about and it's just walking them to "their spots" and letting them potty.
That said, we DO NOT do group walks and that's a service I would expect to pay much less for if I was open to it.
I walk one dog at a time, at most 2-3 if the dogs are small and know eachother or live together (the only group of 3 we have are a group of frenchies who really get along very well)
and I of course would want background checks of the walkers and a solid business behind them.