Should you hire a dog walker?
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): College Rentals
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/02/09
When it comes to having a pet, you always have the positives of having the pet, which is simply fun. Dogs are loving, compassionate, and adorable pillows with legs. You can’t not love them. They are as irresistible to love as much as Stevie Wonder’s voice. They are just soothing.
But they do come with some problem areas because they are living beings. They eat, drink, sleep, poop, and need daily exercise. If they do not get those, as with most beings, they go a little looney, especially if they need that exercise to get around and live out their days.
The big problems have been largely solved because so many people have dogs and love them, even treating them probably in most cases as another member of the family if not another child or sibling. Dogs are great and often well-loved.
You can get prepackaged food just for their specific nutritional needs, even treat wants. You can buy them collars and beds and leashes and other toys/accessories to help improve their quality of life. You can have a specific poop bag or shovel and bucket to manage the waste product of the dogs. You can buy them special beds for sleep. Through those, you have all of their needs met, except the need to be outside – which for most dogs is a definite need.
You basically check the box on dogs needing walking regardless of type and then read the fine print about “How much?” Some need a lot; some need a little. But nonetheless, the ability to be able to take a dog out can be a hassle as with other chores because they are chores.
That is where dogwalkers come in. You can go on walks or runs with the dog if you would love to get your own outdoors needs as a living, breathing being too. But if you do not have time for that because you work, as with many students, or because of classes and time constraints, even energy limitations, then you may seriously want to consider a dog walker to help you manage that chore, that responsibility.
You have responsibilities, but want the benefits of a friendly house pillow that barks. One of the best things to do then is to set some finances aside to either completely or partially help with the responsibility, out of care and concern and compassion for the dog, of walking the dog.
It doesn’t take much. You can put out an ad online or even within the campus community to hire someone to help you with your responsibilities to the dog. So, you can have some time to yourself, more flexibility with your work, or be able to attend the class without worrying about Pebbles.
It is one way that you don’t have to be stuck between a rock and a hard place getting help through a dog walker. And if all else fails, find a friend, or befriend and make a friend, someone who simply cannot help but gush poetic for animals in general – and hopefully dogs in particular, you can see if they can volunteer for the dog walking responsibilities, which does a favor for you and for them at the same time in a win-win.
You get more time. They get a dog for a bit. Whether you hire someone, or get help from a friend, you can’t go wrong with a dog walker to help take Rocky to the park.
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