£25 a walk
Dog walking in
North West London
Six walkers, sixteen years. If you book Monday, Wednesday and Friday, we’re there Monday, Wednesday and Friday. That’s the whole proposition.
Why not just use an app?
We hear it a lot. Someone’s tried one of the booking apps because it was fifteen pounds instead of twenty-five. It was fine, until it wasn’t: cancelled the night before, didn’t turn up on the Wednesday. On those platforms you’re booking someone having a go at dog walking between other commitments. We do this as our job.
A full hour on Hampstead Heath
Not an hour door to door with the driving counted in. An hour of actual walking, minimum. Groups of four on Hampstead Heath, or six with Nick and Emma at Arrandene in Mill Hill. If your local park is Regent’s Park or Primrose Hill, your dog gets a well-deserved break from the manicured lawns.
You don’t need to be home
We’re fully insured to hold keys, and collection and drop-off are included. Keys carry your dog’s name, never your address. Same walker every day, and if they’re away, cover comes from inside the team: someone who already knows your dog.
Morning or afternoon?
Mornings or afternoons in Hampstead and the areas around it. St John’s Wood and Maida Vale are afternoons only.
A morning walk
- ~9:30Collected from homeYour walker arrives around half nine. You don’t need to be in; we hold your key.
- + the driveOut to proper groundHampstead Heath in groups of four, or Arrandene in Mill Hill in groups of six.
- 60 minutesA full hour of walkingNever less. The driving isn’t counted in it.
- On the walkA WhatsApp from your walkerA video of your dog in action, and who they’ve been running around with today.
- ~1½ hrs laterHome, settledOut of the house about an hour and a half in total.
Hampstead, West Hampstead, Highgate, Primrose Hill, Belsize Park, Kilburn and Cricklewood.
An afternoon walk
- ~12:00Collected around middayAfter the morning round, walkers collect again in every area we walk.
- + the driveUp to Hampstead HeathA short drive up to Hampstead Heath, in a small, calm group.
- 60 minutesA full hour on Hampstead HeathWest Heath woodland or the open Heath Extension, depending on your dog.
- On Hampstead HeathNews on WhatsAppA video plus the gossip: who they’ve made friends with.
- ~1:30Home againSame rhythm every day. Dogs settle into it quickly.
Every area we walk. In St John’s Wood and Maida Vale, walks are afternoons only.
The Premier Dog Walkers philosophy
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Warren has three young children who love dogs. They can get a group of dogs excited in seconds. There’s no skill in that.
The skill of a good dog walker is controlling the excitement. We keep our dogs at a 3 or 4 on the scale. They can jump up to an 8 to play, and then we bring them back down. So when we meet people on Hampstead Heath, our dogs are calm.
We don’t throw tennis balls either. A ball creates competition, and we don’t want to give dogs a reason not to get on.
You’ll see the whole thing
Your child comes home and tells you who they played with at lunchtime. Your dog can’t. They can’t tell you their best friend is Roly, the chocolate Lab who’s the popular kid in the class. But we can, so we send videos on WhatsApp.
“It’s been challenging to find a dog walker that takes my large breed, full of energy lab/collie cross for some fulfilling walks that don’t involve throwing balls or going to the well known parks, but Premier Dogs do that. Rufio is a different dog.”