Paw Patrol Pet Services

20/08/2024

20/08/2024

A riverside walk earlier

20/08/2024

We've been visiting a hamster, with a cool name (Vegas!) And some stick insects.

It is AMAZING to see a hamster in a MORE than suitable set up..not one of those piddly, unsuitable cages pets at home sell.

What a lucky hamster Vegas is! Lots of tunnels, suitable wheel, loads of space and enrichment!

Pet shops - take note

20/08/2024

I've referred two new clients on to another dog walker in 2 days.
If we don't cover your area , or have capacity, I always try to sign post people to an alternative.
We still do have some limited availability for September for:

1 hour group walks. We pride ourselves on having small, compatible groups.

We can do drop ins outside of peak times

We have a lot of scope for cats 🐈 , small pets and horse visits if on our area..if you're not, I am happy to refer you on to someone.

19/08/2024

Prolific winner, then hobbled and bred (literally to death) in an attempt to try and breed another like her.

Greed over welfare, as always. Cannot convince me the racing industry is one I want to back. I know just how much I've lost personally with a 2 out of 2 failure rate with ex racers. Driven into the ground , from such a young age.

Human beings have a lot to answer for.

Very sad news as this star mare and her last foal die within 48 hours

Read more via link below

19/08/2024

We are passing these on to your dogs in the strictest of confidence.

If you're guilty of this offence. Stop now.

18/08/2024

Sound on 🫶

16/08/2024

I can't be the only one who tries, and fails, to enjoy a sneaky biscuit?!

14/08/2024

Some common queries we've had lately:

What areas do you cover?
📍We cover areas that are on our current route.
Claypole, fernwood, middlebeck, coddington, Farndon. We don't cover the town centre or winthorpe side, as traffic is too congested.

Do you work weekends?
We will do pet visits on weekends (cats, small pets etc) but we try to have a rest from walking, and the children are at home too.🚶
Occasionally we will work a weekend, but we always advertise if we are.

I might need you in 2 months, can you hold my space? ⛔️
Sadly, we cannot hold spaces as we have been let down too many times. Any space empty, is unpaid work, and our working day is already too short to keep spaces open "on the off chance". The same applies to booking us for holiday cover. We need a deposit at the very least. We never over subscribe so as not to compromise on quality of service.

Do you do solo walks?
Unless you're outside of lunch time, we unfortunately made the difficult decision to drop solo walks as they're very costly to a dog walking business. The demand is only 9.30am to 2pm, so if you wipe out 1 hour for a solo (plus travel), it's an expensive business model for us. We will do solos outside of this time. We can also refer you to someone who does offer solo walks. We always try to refer people on if we cannot offer a service.

Can you accomodate anti social hours?
We try to be flexible and so we are willing to walk early morning (ie 7am) for shift workers.

Do you offer drop ins?
We do. We have more flexibility this side - fernwood and claypole.

Do you do equine work? 🐴
We consider it on a case by case basis, according to chores needed and location.

Do you offer livestock visits? 🐖🐑🐓
We will feed and muck out any type of animal. We have taken care of pet sheep, chickens, ducks and pigs.

We try to offer a quality over quantity service so we do not over commit, and under deliver. We pride ourselves on ensuring all the dogs we group are very compatible and we are trained to do this. We don't have large, unstructured, groups and we ensure we take each individual dogs needs and temperament into the equation when we decide who to walk with who. Which is why we have to consider carefully doing extra walks, on days you may not usually be booked in, as some dogs are more compatible than others. We try to be as flexible as we possibly can.

We have a 100% incident free record because we are trained, and risk averse.

However, due to this, we do feel losses very easily.
There is no right or wrong way to run a dog walking business as it really ebbs and flows, so.we support all other walkers. We refer on a lot. We understand some may offer large group walks to mitigate the peaks and troughs in this line of work. It is certainly very unsettling dealing with an inconsistent income. So we are not here to judge how anyone else does things, as self employment is hard for everyone.

We have much more flexibility the more local you are, and the more amenable your dog may be. We know every dog on our books well enough to know where they fit, and where they don't. That is the beauty of having long term clients. 🙂

I've listed the above as we get many, many enquiries and sometimes people do get offended if we say no. In an ideal world we'd hold space for everyone, and always have the ability to say yes, but working with dogs takes a great deal of consideration and the summer holidays is certainly the time we feel it the most. We have some term time only dogs, then back to back losses from holidays. We never do anything to intentionally upset anyone. We simply need to be able to survive as a business.

We haven't changed anything around for months, and we do not intend to, but for all of the more recent (new) enquiries for September/October, if you haven't booked a meet and greet, and you need us, I'd suggest doing it sooner rather than later to secure a slot.

We have plenty of slots for cat and small pet visits so no urgency there.

12/08/2024

08/08/2024

As a police dog handler, instructor, public order dog instructor and police dog commander for over 100 PSU deployments that included many football matches with violent crowds, extremist marches and mutual aid for other police forces for public order incidents around the country I can tell you that I’ve never seen public order dogs muzzled like this in this sort of situation.
There is a very outdated tactic that is incredibly rarely used where dogs could be deployed to a passive crowd. In that tactic dogs are told to be put in the down position and are to remain calm. I have only seen one training video of a real life situation where it was used and it did not make for comfortable viewing and I made it clear that I would never use it.
There is no tactic available to use dogs wearing muzzles to ‘muzzle punch’ people in the police handbook!
This is not a passive crowd! This is not a picnic. This is not a cute and fluffy public engagement day, of which I have been to many. This is a public order incident with an aggressive and hostile crowd who went on to riot.
As the dog commander it is your role to tell the bronze or silver commander what your teams capabilities are and what you and your team are prepared to do. You can say no. I have said no much higher ranking commanders to tactics and decisions many times before. I’d give my input and suggest a much more suitable and achievable tactic. I am the subject expert in that situation not them. As a dog commander on the ground you have a much higher position than your police Constable rank might suggest. You can tell everyone up to silver and potentially gold command what you are going to do or not going to do.
Never had I ever been asked to muzzle my teams dogs and place them in front of a crowd. If I had been asked I would have refused.
If the crowd is that passive then the situation doesn’t need police dogs - that crowd wasn’t passive.
If the crowd is active, reactive, hostile, violent and it’s deemed that dogs are needed then they shouldn’t be muzzled!
Let me just reiterate, there is currently no police dog tactic in the police dog manual that allows for police dogs to ‘muzzle punch’ people!

08/08/2024

We have availability and slots to fill due to dogs being on holiday/term time only dogs being off for summer ☀️

Please spread the word 🙏

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08/08/2024

These are the real, raw unedited conversations of a dog walker 🤣

08/08/2024

Yesterday Jack was so chuffed as he got Pepper to sit 😆🩷

08/08/2024

The Riverside walk 🚶‍♀️ 👌

08/08/2024

A dog's mind 🤣

08/08/2024

Just a reminder! We haven't had a break since December , so we are really looking forward to resting our feet :)

08/08/2024

River ✔️
Ducks ✔️
Geese ✔️
Swans ✔️
Miniature horse ✔️
Dog water station ✔️
Two giant monstrous deposits made by Hugo ✔️ 🤣

08/08/2024

Jack says "Poppy is my best friend in the whole wide world" ❤️

08/08/2024

Yesterday we broke a record, and wore Dora out. This has never happened in the history of ever and she laid down 😱🤣

08/08/2024

Hugo says "Not today thanks, Paw Patrol. I actually planned a lay in"

06/08/2024

Today we had newbies Willow and Jasper and they slotted right in.

Snoopy fell head over heels for one, but can you guess which one?

06/08/2024

The real Swan lake ☺️

05/08/2024

2 things

I love how these are such relaxed, happy bums (the dogs, not Matt)

Secondly, did anyone notice Hugo checks the road before crossing 🤣

02/08/2024

Queen Rita 👸 👑

02/08/2024

Jack was so excited to see Rita he forgot to get his shoes before he got out.

Then he didn't want her to go back at the end 🥹

02/08/2024

Bruno 💙

01/08/2024

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