Dog Walking25 Walks

This is the standing arrangement. Twenty-five walks is most of a year at once a fortnight, or half a year at once a week, and it's for the households where the walk isn't an occasional favour — it's part of how the week runs.

At this length the relationship does most of the work. Twenty-five walks in, we're not a stranger clipping on a lead. We know your dog's pace, the stretch where he stops dead to smell something, the dogs he'd rather not meet and the difference between him pulling because he's keen and pulling because something has bothered him. That last one is the sort of thing you only notice when you've seen the normal version twenty times.

It's the pack that suits a dog whose person is at work full-time, an owner whose health makes the daily walk hard to guarantee, or simply a household that has decided the dog gets walked properly and would rather not think about booking it each week.

Both dogs from the same house on every walk, a photo from each, rain moved rather than lost, and twelve months to use them.

Twenty-five walks at R200 each with 30% back — the biggest return of any pack we do.

Before we come

Tell us honestly how your dog is on a lead. Pulling, lunging at other dogs, barking at cyclists, bolting at a gate — none of it is unusual and none of it is a problem, but we need to know before the first walk rather than discovering it on a pavement. The same goes for a dog who's nervous of strangers; we'd rather take the first few minutes slowly than have you worrying about it. We walk on the lead, always. Not as a rule we bend for well-behaved dogs — as a rule. A dog that recalls perfectly for you has no reason to recall for us, and a loose dog near a road is not a risk worth taking with somebody else's family member. If you were hoping for off-lead running, this isn't that service. Heat matters more here than people think. A Paarl summer afternoon is genuinely dangerous for some dogs, and tar stays hot enough to burn pads long after the air feels bearable — the back of your hand held on the road for five seconds is the usual test. Flat-faced dogs, heavy-coated dogs, overweight dogs and elderly dogs are all worse at shedding heat than they look. Talk to us about timing in summer; earlier or later is usually the right answer. Forty-five minutes isn't right for every dog. A puppy's growth plates, an arthritic hip, a heart murmur, a recent operation — all of them are reasons to do less, and doing less is fine. If your vet has put any limit on exercise, tell us what it is and we'll work inside it. Puppies also shouldn't be walked in public before their vaccinations are finished; check with your vet where yours is up to. Have the lead, collar and tag ready, and check the tag is current. A dog that slips a collar with an out-of-date number on it is a bad afternoon for everyone. Decide how we get in, before the first walk. We come to the house and collect your dog, and there are three ways that usually works: you leave a key with us, you give us a gate code, or somebody's home. Any of them is fine — we just need it settled in advance rather than worked out on the doorstep while your dog loses its mind at the window. Tell us where the lead lives too, and anything about the gate, the alarm or the other animals in the house that we'd want to know before letting ourselves in. If you need to cancel, tell us. Things come up — a vet appointment, a sick dog, a change of plan. Get in touch and our support team will sort it out with you, either moving the walk to another day or refunding it. What we'd rather not do is have you feel you've lost a walk because you didn't ask. Two dogs from one home, on one package. A third dog needs a package of its own Twelve months, and twenty-five walks is the pack where that matters. Once a fortnight uses it up almost exactly; once a month does not — you'd be leaving walks on the table. Work out the rhythm you'll actually keep before buying this one rather than the rhythm you'd like to keep. Tell us if anything changes — and over twenty-five walks it will. A dog ages, a hip stiffens, a vet changes the exercise advice, a household moves. We'd rather shorten a walk or change the route than keep doing the same thing because it's what was booked.