Good Dog Walking Service

**Bluehorseshoe** · 01-22-2012, 01:03 PM

Can anyone recommend a good dog walking service that operates in South Philadelphia?

**BrianL** · 01-22-2012, 01:11 PM

Monster Minder's is great, been using them for a couple of years now.

http://themonsterminders.com

**Marvel** · 01-22-2012, 06:50 PM

Sue Senn at Sniffles and Friends.
I can't say enough good things about her.

Sniffles and Friends - Philadelphia's Phavorite Dog Walking Service!
215. 203. 0117
sue@snifflesandfriends.com

We've been using her for 5 years.

**qweezyq** · 01-22-2012, 08:00 PM

Philadelphia Dog Walking and Pet Sitting and Pet Store

**ColeenH** · 01-22-2012, 11:23 PM

Originally Posted by Marvel

Sue Senn at Sniffles and Friends.
I can't say enough good things about her.

Sniffles and Friends - Philadelphia's Phavorite Dog Walking Service!
215. 203. 0117
sue@snifflesandfriends.com

We've been using her for 5 years.

Ditto Sniffles. Consistently voted Best of Philly.

**Bluehorseshoe** · 01-25-2012, 08:44 PM

Originally Posted by qweezyq

Philadelphia Dog Walking and Pet Sitting and Pet Store

I had a bad experience with Walk it Like a Dog. I caught their dog walker only walking my dog for 5 minutes on several occasions.

**ColeenH** · 01-25-2012, 10:00 PM

Originally Posted by Bluehorseshoe

I had a bad experience with Walk it Like a Dog. I caught their dog walker only walking my dog for 5 minutes on several occasions.

I wonder if that's why they recently announced they will start using GPS Dog Walking software, which provides a real time map of your dog's walk.

**favredhd** · 01-26-2012, 12:17 AM

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**walkitlikeadog** · 02-02-2012, 02:19 AM

Originally Posted by Bluehorseshoe

I had a bad experience with Walk it Like a Dog. I caught their dog walker only walking my dog for 5 minutes on several occasions.

I am the owner of this company. This walker was fired. This person had worked for me for for over a year with very good feedback from his clients. During random checks, where I would physically show up and check in on walkers unannounced, there was never any issue. I had a conversation with him about it and put him on probation. He did the same thing the next day and I fired him and I removed the charges for the services. I'm really not sure what else I could have done here. It is not as if I condone this behavior.

And yes, this is exactly why we track our walkers via GPS now. Our walkers scan in using a QR Code (fancy bar code) magnet in their home. When the walker scans in our clients receive an email alert that the walk has started. At the end of the walk, the walker scans out and receives an alert that the walk has ended. When our clients log in, they can see the start time, end time, a note from their walker and a map of the route they walked. For additional information, please call 215-882-2358.

**hubba1** · 02-02-2012, 09:36 AM

Originally Posted by walkitlikeadog

I am the owner of this company. This walker was fired. This person had worked for me for for over a year with very good feedback from his clients. During random checks, where I would physically show up and check in on walkers unannounced, there was never any issue. I had a conversation with him about it and put him on probation. He did the same thing the next day and I fired him and I removed the charges for the services. I'm really not sure what else I could have done here. It is not as if I condone this behavior.

And yes, this is exactly why we track our walkers via GPS now. Our walkers scan in using a QR Code (fancy bar code) magnet in their home. When the walker scans in our clients receive an email alert that the walk has started. At the end of the walk, the walker scans out and receives an alert that the walk has ended. When our clients log in, they can see the start time, end time, a note from their walker and a map of the route they walked. For additional information, please call 215-882-2358.

Thanks! This is very cool, and glad to see you were proactive with the negative employee!

**zavmaster** · 02-03-2012, 10:00 PM

I am stopping my long time lurking in order to recommend Walk it Like a Dog.

Rich and his team are top notch. They are nice, professional, responsive, take great care of my dog, and always go the extra mile to make sure our needs are met.

I used a couple other services before I tried WILAG, and the only one that could compare (Top Tails) doesnt service this area.

Theyre great, and I highly recommend them.

**FionnMacCumhail** · 02-04-2012, 08:24 PM

Use this service. Especially since they use technology to help track dog walkers and a good website to schedule walks.

**qweezyq** · 02-05-2012, 07:41 PM

Used Walk it like a dog yesterday. It was pretty awesome to see online exactly where they walked and for how long (half hour as advertised). Also, another great feature is that all payment is done online by credit card.