Dog Walking and Daycare in West Hampstead
West Hampstead, NW6, is where Premier Dog Walkers started, and it is still the patch we know best: the streets, the shortcuts, which bits of green are quiet at which time of day.
A day in West Hampstead
A morning walk
- ~9:30Collected from homeYour walker arrives in West Hampstead around half nine. You don’t need to be in; we hold your key.
- + the driveUp to Hampstead HeathThe wooded West Heath or the open Heath Extension, never more than four dogs.
- 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.
An afternoon walk
- ~12:00Collected around middayAfter the morning round, your walker comes back to West Hampstead for pick-up.
- + 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.
A day in the Secret Woodland
- 8:30 – 9:30Warren collectsIt’s a round, so collection runs across the hour.
- ~40 minsThe drive outThe dogs settle on the drive and arrive calm.
- 4 hoursIn real woodlandStreams, bracken, muntjac deer and pheasants. Six dogs, one man.
- During the dayYour WhatsApp updateVideos from the woods and who their best friend was today.
- 3:00 – 4:00Dropped homeProperly, satisfyingly knackered.
Dog walkers in West Hampstead NW6
Jack works a rhythm: three walks a day on the West Heath, never more than four dogs. Dense woodland you can zigzag into until you have lost your bearings, which is exactly what the dogs want. Ashley takes dogs who need to open up onto the Heath Extension, and he also does our overnight boarding, so if your dog ever stays with us it is a face they already know from the round.
£25 a walk. How our walks work →
Doggy daycare in West Hampstead
Sixteen years of driving round North West London teaches you where the wildest ground is. So daycare goes out to our Secret Woodland: firm underfoot in January, shaded in July. Four hours of it.
£55 a day. About the Secret Woodland →
We keep things calm
Anyone can get four dogs excited. Throw a ball, raise your voice, and there it is. Keeping them settled for an hour while the world goes past is the actual skill, and it is what we hire and train for.
We also cover Hampstead, Maida Vale and Primrose Hill.