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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]$30 is not high for dog walking. How much is carpet cleaning? [/quote]$30 a day adds up. If you have a full time job that usually requires a person to work five days a week, that comes to $150 a week. Let's say you take four weeks vacation a year where you then have the time to walk your own dog everyday, that still leaves forty eight weeks that you have a walker. 48 x $150 = $7200 a year, or $600 a month.

ps. I've never spent $7200 in one year for carpet cleaning.  :wink: [/quote]

Dog walking doesn’t cost $30/day.[/quote]

NP. It absolutely does.[/quote]

Where? The average in DC is $18-20 for 30 minutes. Is your dog getting hour long walks?[/quote]

Where did you get that average price? And I'm not interested in a service like Rover where it's some random person getting access to my house vs a known/trusted dog walker. Maybe it's more like $20-25/day for a 30 minute walk with the services we've used in the past. Using $20/day, that's still $400/month or $4,800/year. My dogs are 50+ lbs, they can hold their bladders for 8 hours. Maybe if we had little dogs with little bladders, we'd make a different calculus. It's a non-issue for us anyway because they usually aren't home for more then 4-6 hours at a time with the way our work schedules stagger, but I don't worry when it is 8 hours.

Anyway, I just don't buy the argument that if you can't afford $400/month, you must not be giving your pet a good life with regular vet care and good food, preventatives etc. 
My dogs are happy, thriving pups that get a 45 minute walk in the morning, let out just before we leave, and are lazy sh-ts all day long.

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Barkly, Wag, Patrick’s, Wagamuffin, Walks With Renzo and Ruby, District Dogs, and more charge 18-20 for 30 minutes and are all quality services. [/quote]

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