how much would you pay to have your dog walked per hour and what country are you from?

Question

the service would be dog excercise with a side order of obedience training, some photos put on web for viewing

Answer 1

just to walk the dog, depends on how often a day, and the type of dog.
for example, a big dog requires more exersize and more energy handling than a small dog.
lets say i want my golden retriever walked. he will want a good, healthy long walk, so we'll say it takes a hour to walk his energy out (including a stop at an area, say a park, where he can play catch)
lets say i want this done once a day. i would probably pay a pretty decent amount, say fifteen bucks. if i wanted shorter duration, but more frequent walks, say two a day for a half hour each, i would say ten dollars per session.

but it also depends on the person doing the walking. if it's some eight year old neighborhood kid offering to train my dog, it would be based off of the first couple sessions. if say, he's trying to walk my dog, but my dog is really strong and hard for him to handle, but he still gives it his all, i would be kind and give him more per session.

it also depends on how he handles the dog. if i see him hit, yell at or put my dog in danger, i would probably take my dog away from him and not pay him anything.

but, we'll say this for a base rate (i live in oregon, so we'll assume you can provide the service of taking him to a park to play fetch)

we will also assume you're under eighteen so this is a neighborhood kid price range.
large dog walk: 10 bucks an hour, assuming you walk him for an hour.
+ a trip to the park to play fetch: an additional five dollars per session.
+an hour of obedience training (assuming you know what you're doing and treat the dog properly) an additional five to ten dollars per hour.

also please note that the training session fee would also depend on the intelligence of the animal. my brothers german shepard will learn a trick YEARS before my grandmothers toy fox terrier will. so you should charge less for animals that don't learn tricks easily.

but i think, if you were to solicit yourself to dog owners as a dog walker, offer discounts too. ie a once a week walk is fifteen dollars for an hour long walk, whereas a daily walk five days a week would only be fourty dollars. it sounds like too much less but in the long run you have a reoccurant customer.

also note that customers will pay you based off of what they feel you are worth, so give them a low rate to start (five dollars a walk) and when they see rover start behaving better and that you are taking good care of their dog, they are more likely to increase what they pay you. (this is assuming you're going for a good customer base, and not the rednecks down the street that cant afford to pay for their dogs food, let alone some kid to walk it)

Answer 2

ok i paintings at a groomers and 30$ for a bathtub? that's ridiculous. extraordinarily if you're only a baby giving a canines baths. shampoo isn't that expensivie and it lasts a lengthy time period. 15$ is low-priced. 20$ is likewise very intense priced. if you're only walking canines for 2 hours 10 funds. i'd not enable everybody else tochronic with my canines. till I really have pushed with them earlier AND my canines might want to must be in crates not free. i'd not favor my canines walked contained in the park the position there are alot of human beings both, i might want to favor them walked particular in a neighbor hood however the better probabilities of human beings being on the park=better possibilities the canines are going to get free. obviously im loopy so... i'd not let everybody walk my canines ever. particular let them run round in a fenced in section with information from themselves particular. yet i do not trust those with my canines. although alot of human beings allow you to to. yet 20$ is alot.

Answer 3

$.07

Answer 4

http://www.dogs.com