We have been having Jason and his staff walk and dogsit for our golden retriever since he was 10…read moreweeks old. Safety is our top concern when researching for a dog walker...and Jason has put our minds at ease when our pup is in their hands. They are very responsive to messages and requests. Our now 1 year old golden has grown very comfortable with his usual walkers and comes back happy and tired from his daily walks. Highly recommend for anyone with a new puppy and just your furry baby, in general! Butterz special shoutout to Brendan, Chelsea, Iggy!

My 3 year old beagle, Jude, absolutely loves being walked by Jason and his crew of incredible dog…read morewalkers. I love how easy it is to schedule walks on their app and that they send messages and photos to me from every walk! We've also had Claudia stay at our house to watch Jude while we were away for the weekend, which was an amazing option. Jason's rates are affordable and the service is so reliable. I highly recommend this dog walking service if you live in Brooklyn!!

We have started to use Dave's Dog Duty when we got our first dog Ferdinand 8 months ago. Ferdinand…read moreis a rescue dog, who was shy and scared of loud noises when we got him. He's now a playful little dog, ready to walk (most of the time) and to have fun with other dogs. As much as I'd like to take credit for his progress, I think Dave and our dog walker Phyllis have much more to do with it. Phyllis is a great dog walker. Her love for animals is obvious. She helped us get Ferdinand ready to walk with other dogs, always leaves detailed feedback if Ferdinand is more anxious than usual. She was a great support as we also welcomed our third son back home, advising us on how to behave with Ferdinand, and sharing some very helpful kid friendly videos for my two older kids so they learn to play safely with Ferdinand. Ferdinand is now very well adjusted to our family, and us to him. We feel very fortunate to have found Dave's Dog Duty to help us transition from a family with two children and no pets, to a family of three children and a dog.

Two years ago when I adopted a 10 yr. old pup, I was worried about finding a dog walker in my…read moreneighborhood. Luckily I met Dave! He came over to meet me and Rizzo and he was great with her since she is a shy, stand offish shihtzu who was found roaming the streets alone. He has been walking her 4x a week now and always leaves notes so I know how she did and what she did on the walks! He is extremely flexible and will add or drop walks when needed. He also has some great co-workers who are also so professional and trustworthy. Phyllis came and took care of Rizzo and my cats when Dave was away and she was great. Dave is willing to go beyond the dog walk too - he also feeds my cats dinner two times a week so they aren't starved by the time I arrive home! He is an all around professional, kind man who is dedicated to his company.

When I suddenly had to switch from telework to return to a windowless office, I had a challenging…read moretime finding a dog walker and needed more consistency and accountability than Rover. Others I contacted didn't service my area or weren't taking new clients. I tried a couple of options, and they each have some pluses and minuses, but ultimately I went with Abby on Argyle and they are fantastic. The walkers are kind and considerate and seem to enjoy hanging with my pup. I get daily updates and adorable photos. The admin team is flexible with my crazy schedule and responsive. I highly recommend them to anyone looking for pet care!

I used Abby on Argyle for about three years until I had to move, and they were communicative,…read moreresponsive, and very accommodating to requests (specially last minute walk request). They followed my instructions well, and checked in to clarify in instances I forgot to include feeding. The walkers are friendly and really cared about my dog. Their after visit summary often included pictures of my dog and details about what happened during the walk. Their scheduling portal is easy to navigate. I never had any major issues with them. Would definitely recommend Abby on Argyle.

Corey has been helping me with my shepherd Odin since he was 6mos. I always get compliments on his…read moretraining and whether we are working on tricks or behavior Corey always has some little gem of knowledge or thinks fast on his feet and Odin and I are off to the races once again. You will get results!

Corey is a terrible dog trainer and from my interactions with him over the couple of months that we…read moreworked together, I get the sense that he's a terrible person as well. Let me take you on a journey. You're young and naive, you adopted a dog during the pandemic. The rescue told you that she is a very chill dog. She is, in fact, not chill. She is under-socialized and fearful of everything. You look for a dog trainer. Without doing any research, you accept your neighbors recommendation of Corey Harden K9. It is the worst decision of your life. We set up our consultation meeting at our apartment because one of our issues was resource guarding of the space. Our just rescued 8-month old dog Sona is a Shepherd mix, very guardy so she barks at the door and at any sound in the hallway. Corey came in and literally kicked Sona. She was so afraid that she peed in the apartment. After a few minutes, Sona did get used to his presence and began to display more soft, curious behaviors like sniffing and going up to lick Corey. So as obviously insane as the situation was, we went ahead and booked Corey as our trainer. We were stupid and overwhelmed - this guy's a professional dog trainer and says all this is normal, who we were to disagree. (All this to say, don't judge me for staying with Corey as long as I did. I need to emphasize again that I was a real life moron and knew nothing about dogs at the time.) We mostly wanted to work with Corey on leash manners. Sona pulled relentlessly on her martingale to the point that she was choking herself, and she will pull through that anyway. It made walks deeply unpleasant. She was also leash reactive. At our next session, we met at Prospect Park for a walk. Corey immediately put her on a prong and popped her VERY hard on the collar. Sona yelped loudly. Thinking back, Corey is lucky that Sona is a sweet dog and did not redirect at him for that. To be clear, there's nothing wrong with communicating with your dog that there are things you want/don't want, but he consistently applied unnecessarily harsh corrections. He wanted us to start our training with Sona at the Nethermead at Prospect Park during off-leash hours. Anyone that's been there knows its quite chaotic, dogs everywhere! At this point, only a couple weeks after rescuing Sona, we have not had time to form a relationship with her. Yet he ONLY wanted us to work her off-leash at the Nethermead, where Sona would just ignore us and ignore food/toys to dart off with other dogs. Then he would harp on us for not working hard enough? Again, thinking back, this is a horrible and dangerous approach. We should have been on a long line, probably on one of those patches of grass off to the side of the main field so the other dogs were in sight but she still had enough distance to focus on us. A few sessions like this was enough to convince us that Sona was untrainable and that we were horrible dog parents. The entire process left us feeling so defeated, and of course, Sona's obedience and fear aggressive behaviors got worse throughout the entire time. During one of our training sessions at the Nethermead, a man was walking towards us to get through the field. Sona immediately rushed to him and started barking at home, ignoring our recall and we were unable to redirect her with play and food. Corey was literally there, he witnessed this behavior and with a straight face said "don't worry about that man, dogs have a sixth sense so they can tell when someone has a bad vibe." Um, does this sound logical to you? Does this sound like something a professional dog trainer would say? Anyway, we clearly never worked on desensitization or counter-conditioning for her fear of strangers because Corey was delusional and convinced us that Sona is a medium that can sense vibez. Of the few things we did right with Sona, crate training is the one I'm most grateful for. Absolutely no credit goes to Corey for this because we crate trained her before we started working with him. However, I can credit him for undoing all of our crate training effort because he encouraged us to crate her and BANG ON HER CRATE REALLY LOUDLY whenever she barked at the door. What was once a nice, cozy, safe place to relax became a really confrontational space. Once, he took Sona for a pack walk. He brought her back an hour later with four bloody paws, she needed booties and couldn't really walk for more than 10 minutes outside for several weeks until they healed. After using six or seven of our ten session package, we decided that we're done. We never communicated with him again, ignored all his messages, and didn't even ask for the remainder of our money back. In the time that he worked with Sona, she went from friendly but anxious to straight up aggressive. I wish I could go back in time to before I worked with Corey, I believe Sona wouldn't have developed severe behavior issues it it wasn't for him. Sona is doing great now, we got a real trainer and she's thriving.

Kena is absolutely wonderful!…read more She was nice enough to take a last minute request to cat sit for our foster kitty. She came for a meet and great and our cat loved her immediately. The daily updates were wonderful and so reassuring! I can't recommend Ditmas Paws enough. It's a great business run by great people!

If you have a cat or dog you want to make sure they get the best care whenever you're out of…read moretown..... Enter, Ditmas Paws. I was SO happy to have found Kena & Jeffrey (and their team)/Ditmas Paws. After the initial meet and greet I felt completely at ease and confident that they could check in daily on my cat. Kena did an excellent job of caring for my somewhat skittish kitty while I was on vacation. They are pet owners themselves and I felt completely comfortable leaving my cat in their care. In addition to litter box cleaning and checking the self-feeder and waterer, Kena emailed me daily updates along with a photo of my kitty. Their website states: "We treat your pets as part of our family," and it's true. They are kind, highly qualified, professional, responsible and love animals. What more could a pet owner want in a pet caregiver? Oh, and their daily rates are very reasonable. After the meet and greet, you can schedule everything on their new/redesigned website. I highly recommend them!!

LaRay was great with our beagle! she has been so mellow since she got back from a seven day…read moreboarding it's like camp for dogs. also the place doesn't smell like so many others. highly recommend. and they send pictures!

LaRay and his team are incredible. This establishment is reliable, prompt, caring, and very…read moreprofessional. My dog Chaco loves it here and always comes home tired. If i could give more stars i would. Thank you!

We LOVE the Go Dog team!! We have used Jason and his amazing crew of animal lovers for the past 5…read moreyears for both our cat and dog and we are so thrilled. You will not find a team who cares about the wellbeing of your family member. Jason and his entire team deeply care about your fuzzy creatures and we will continue to recommend them! If our boys could talk they'd give GoDog 5 full paws!!

Godog has been walking my dog Yumi for over a year and I highly highly recommend them if you're…read morelooking for a walker! Steph, William, and Jason all seem to really care about Yumi, and her well being, I know she feels similarly because she's incredibly excited when her walker for the day arrives. The walks are always in small groups, consistently with the same one or maximum two other dogs, all of whom are friendly and well socialized. After each walk I receive a very charming update along with very cute pictures. Overall I highly recommend Godog, I've used several dog walking services over the years and Godog is by far my favorite!

We had to get a new dog walker on short notice and I'm so glad I found Melissa. She came to meet my…read morepup Bowser a couple days after I messaged her and was very professional, kind, and I knew he'd be in good hands. Bowser was nervous at first to meet her but Melissa was very patient with him, and now he loves waiting for her at the door for his daily walks. He just finished his first week of walks with Melissa and has made a couple new pack friends. Melissa sends prompt updates through their website after every walk to let you know if your pup did their business and even sends pictures of the pack. On the website, you can update all your pets' information, contact info, notes, and check the schedule too, it's so convenient. I can't recommend Melissa enough.

We've been thrilled with Melissa at Petletariat for the year-plus that she's been walking our dog…read more When our rescue puppy first arrived, we were scared and intimidated and didn't know quite what to do -- the thought of handing him over to someone else for afternoon walks was petrifying. As soon as our pup first met Melissa, we knew we had found our dogwalker. Melissa is everything you could want in a dogwalker: great with dogs (obvi), punctual, reliable, and dedicated. Her website is a breeze to use, and she almost always messages us with a report on the afternoon walk. As an added bonus, most of the walks seem to be group walks, so our dog stays social and even more active. We know he loves his walks with his buds and Melissa! We've also used her for boarding, which went extremely well. Melissa genuinely cares about the health, comfort, and happiness of the dogs she walks, and our dog likes her just as much as we do (and might prefer her to us!). If you need a dogwalker in the Ditmas area, Petletariat should be your first email or call.

Sometimes you simply get lucky and stumble upon the kindest, most caring people. Dawn and Ed are…read moretwo such people. They adore my Tater and treat him as if he's one of their own. They're responsive, flexible, attentive, all the things you would want when entrusting someone to take care of your fur child. I could not recommend them highly enough. Five stars fails to capture how wonderful they are and how lucky any pet and owner would be to have them in their lives.

I had the worst possible experience with Ed and Dawn. They watched my big, sweet dog Finn at their…read morehome for 7 days, but when I came to pick him up, I found him unable to stand, his fur caked in blood and pus from a severely-infected leg wound, and so dehydrated that his nose and gums were dry to the touch. He was very, very ill. I rushed him straight to the emergency vet where they immediately diagnosed him with sepsis, and he died soon after. It is clear that he'd been sick for a while: Ed and Dawn told me afterwards that he'd stopped eating, drinking, and taking his arthritis meds the day before, and he hadn't even been able to STAND UP all day. Yet for some reason they chose to not reach out and let me know any of this, so he just lay helpless on the floor all day, unable to eat, drink, or stand, slipping into sepsis, and I only discovered anything was wrong when I walked in the door at 5pm to pick him up. By that time it was too late. If I'd known that Ed and and Dawn would ignore such obvious signs of distress from an animal in their care, I never would have brought my dog to them. Don't make the same mistake I did.

We love using Dandy Dogwalker, specifically Khamara and sometimes substituting Giancarlo, to walk…read moreour fearful pup Penny. We can always count on Khamara to show up when scheduled, they've always been reliable and very responsible. Even implementing changes in gear and protocol when our trainer made suggestions for helping Penny acclimate to the scary noises of the big city (she's an Alabama girl). When Penny was scared in reaction to the change of having Giancarlo substitute walk for Khamara, Giancarlo was so great with taking notes from our trainer to ease the transition and get Penny more comfortable and calm. I would absolutely recommend entrusting your pups to these folks for daily walking needs. They are insured and scheduling Wales is very easy.

10/5 stars, I absolutely adore Dandy. I have a new energetic 1 yo shepherd mix, and when I reached…read moreout to inquire about booking walks LeAnna responded extremely promptly and we were able to get my pup on a walking schedule within a few days. He LOVES his walks with Mars and his canine friends, he is always a calm and happy pup when I get home, and Mars leaves me great notes and sends me cute pictures and communicates really well about any issues. He's very prepared and an extremely competent professional and I am so grateful that Astro has such a great walker. LeAnna is very organized and the logistics of schedule adjustments are always painless and prompt. I cannot sing their praises enough, I have so much peace of mind and such a happy dog!