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    Urban Tailz

    4.8 (119 reviews)
    Closed 7:00 am - 9:30 pm

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    Dog walking

    Pet sitting

    In-home pet sitting

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    Riti K.

    We *love* the team at UT! Their communication, attentiveness, and consistency is amazing, something that can definitely be difficult to find with dog walking companies in this town! I trust our walker Rachel with my two beagle boys completely, she always loves on them and can handle all their borks & squirrel chasing with ease

    Keys hanging on the gate

    I hate writing a bad review, especially after having met the manager who was very friendly. We previously moved from another walking service due to change in ownership and selected Urban Tailz. Positive: they take a lot of pictures and leave detailed notes. Negatives (I'm just stating facts vs. a rant) - a lot of changes of walkers / no consistency - with no consistency we'd get notes like "Ellie (our older dog) wanted to go on second walk..." which we would have (and have depending on the walker) happily paid for - we have a puppy and an 7.5 year old mixed breed; sometimes he didn't poop and I was hoping they would see that and try to make the second walk based on if he did / did not poop on the first walk - we were having misgivings about them for past few weeks but I dismissed those at part of challenges of raising a puppy I would say if you have an older dog(s) this is probably an ok service to use but I don't recommend them for a puppy (More attention should be paid to what the puppies do / do not do during a walk and adjusting accordingly) But today set the bar for why I would have reservations using this Company. The walker came at 10:30am-ish and our 5 month old puppy didn't poop on that walk....by 2pm I started getting nervous...(we have two walks scheduled per day) so rather than hope he didn't poop in his crate (we've had more accidents with this walking Company over our 13 years of being a dog parent, and that includes two dogs of puppy age) I hopped on the train from the office to ensure our puppy did not have an accident. We live on a busy street in Lakeview East) and the lockbox they use (and note we switched to a lockbox that they said needed to be replaced though had not had any issues with) was not only unlocked but it was open with the key hanging out. I walked past the gate and noticed this... Generally i would suggest using a walker where you have some consistency in walkers...

    Urban Tailz puts my mind at ease every time they watch my pride and joy Fitz. It's so hard to leave my pet, but the team is so wonderful and provide welcomed updates whenever they do a visit. Their app is great and user friendly so I know exactly how Fitz is doing in their care. You can tell this company really cares for each of their clients and treat them like they are their own pets and family members. Fitz loves their visits too! He always gets brushed, played with and cookies on his request! Thank you all!!

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