Is £40 enough?

[Five&Two]

My mum's nextdoor neighbor teenager, is walking P&P twice a week is £40 enough do you think

 

[asmp]

Per week or per month? If it’s per week I might change jobs!

 

[vallin]

We pay £10 per walk (other dog walker we meet with charged £12) plus an extra £5 for an additional dog from the same home.

 

[Chiffy]

My dog walker charges £10 per dog or £15 for two from the same household for at least an hour’s walk. This price includes car travel.

 

[meleeka]

My dog walker charges £10 per dog or £15 for two from the same household for at least an hour’s walk. This price includes car travel.

I think this is about the same as people charge round here.

 

[alibali]

I would be paying less than professional walking prices as presumably said teenager won't be investing in insurance or suitable transport for your dogs?

 

[Tiddlypom]

Cash in hand to an uninsured and unregistered teenager would be way less than for a correctly insured professional dog walker.

 

[Red-1]

It depends on how much you want this particular teenager to walk the dogs!

If they are reliable, safety conscious, available at short notice if you have a crisis and could be trusted when you go away, then it would be worth your while to court them so they really appreciate the job. Some teenagers I would trust with my dogs and keys to my house, some not.

That being said, it is a higher price than I would have expected, but if you can afford it then why not?

 

[AmyMay]

My dog walker charges £10 per dog or £15 for two from the same household for at least an hour’s walk. This price includes car travel.

This what I charge.

 

[Five&Two]

Thanks all, I'll give her £30 a week so it fits with the 2 dogs from the same house twice. I walk them with mine 3 days a week and mum walks them the rest of the time. She's struggling with sciatica atm so trying to help her out.

 

[windand rain]

Reliability is most important I arranged a professional dog walker to walk my lab at about 3 in the afternoon he didnt turn up to do mine but the neighbour said he walked hers at 9.30 in the morning. Poor girl was left from 9 9 without her walk She was fine but never again I have a young friend that walks her now and lives in if we are away she is a professional dog trainer/ behaviourist so very dedicated to welfare

 

[Chiffy]

Wind and rain, what a terrible experience. I wouldn’t have thought an unreliable ‘professional’ would stay in business for long by doing that. Word gets round very quickly.