You can spot a dog-walker from a mile away: they’re generally sporting their company’s logo on a bright t-shirt while walking five or six dogs at once - sometimes even more! But while pack-walking has more or less become the norm for dog-walking services, there are several reasons why you might want to consider one-on-one walks for your canine friend instead:
1. Your Dog Will Get More Personalized Attention - If your dog is exhibiting behavioral or health problems, the walker can stop and focus specifically on what your dog needs. It’s more difficult for a walker to do that in a pack, where they’ve got several dogs to look after at once.
2. Your Dog Will Get The Appropriate Amount Of Exercise - It’s likely that your two-year-old German Shepherd needs more intense exercise than the eight-year-old chihuahua in the pack, so it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to walk them together.
3. The Walker Can Steer Clear Of Tasty-Looking Items On The Ground - As a dog-owner, you’ll know that sometimes dogs like to put disgusting things in their mouths. In a pack, it’ll be incredibly difficult for the walker to monitor every single dog to make sure that they don’t pick up those delicious-looking food scraps on the ground.
4. You’ll Get Your Money’s Worth - With pack-walking, the walker presumably will need to stop and collect each dog from his home, which means that you could end up paying for time where your dog is just standing around eagerly waiting to go for his walk!
5. Distractions Won’t Be As Difficult To Handle - If one dog in the pack sees a squirrel and decides to bolt, it could start a chain reaction of frantic dogs running to catch said squirrel. And unless your walker is actually a young Arnold Schwarzenegger, they probably aren’t strong enough to handle several dogs doing that at once!
6. It’s Easier To Handle An Emergency - Let’s face it, things go wrong sometimes - that’s just life. If one of the dogs picks up a tasty chicken bone on the walk and at the same time another gets into a fight, who the heck is the walker going to turn to first? Is there even a right answer in that scenario…?
7. Fights Will Be Less Likely To Happen - Even if your dog is a perfect angel and just wants to make friends with everything that moves, you can’t be certain that everyone else’s dogs will be that way too. One little punk in the pack could start a fight and end up injuring or scaring your dog. With one-on-one walks, it’s far easier to steer clear of other dogs and avoid a fight!
Even if pack-walking is more readily available and cheaper, it may be beneficial to your dog’s behavior and health to look into a one-on-one service - your dog will thank you for it!
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