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Welcome to our Professional Dog Walking Company!

Dog Walking Services & Pet Sitting Services in Cheddar, North Somerset, Wells, Cardiff, Bristol, Frome, Penarth, Potters Bar & Bath

Established in 2008, Friends for Pets has an excellent reputation in the local communities in which we work. Our small, local teams of pet sitters provide a high quality, personal, competitively priced pet sitting service for your pets. We tailor our services to you and your pet’s requirements rather than you having to fit with our timings. We offer a range of pet care services including:-
  • Dog walking
  • Doggy day care in our pet carers homes
  • Overnight home from home dog boarding in our pet carers homes
  • Pet sitting and in home pet care
  • House sitting
  • Dog Agility Training - for more info please click here
  • Pet First Aid Training - for more info please click here
  • For more information on each of our services please see our services page.
Friends for Pets was founded, and is still overseen by Becca Wilson, a qualified Animal Behaviour Scientist and lecturer who has previously worked as an Animal Behaviour & Welfare Scientist in Developing countries helping run research projects to improve the welfare of working animals and teaching vets and animal health workers about Animal Behaviour and Welfare. Becca has also lectured National Diploma in Animal Care students and undergraduate vet students in Equine Behaviour & Welfare in the UK. A few reasons why you should choose us to care for your special family member:-
  • We offer a free initial meeting with your pet sitter to ensure that everyone is happy with arrangements.
  • Your pet will build up a close relationship with their regular dog walker. We only utilise a second dog walker if your regular pet carer is on holiday or ill. You will meet any back up pet carers before they need to visit your pet and home to check all parties are happy.
  • We offer a discrete walking and visiting service by not using sign-written vehicles to visit your home and transport your pets keeping your home and pet security high. Occasionally our managers will use car magnets which are removed whilst visiting clients homes and carrying pets.
  • We have been established since 2008, making us a long-standing, reliable choice of pet sitter for your pet.
  • We offer a flexible and tailored pet sitting or dog walking service to cater for your and your pet’s needs.
  • We are able to walk your dog on their lead and by themselves if you and your dog require us to.
  • We walk in a variety of rural locations making intersting walks for your dog.
  • Since we began we have developed an excellent reputation within our local pet communities and gain most of our work through recommendations.
  • From 2016, our dog walkers have been able to undertake our pet sitter award scheme promoting better understanding of pet "knowledge".
  • We do not walk your dog in large groups giving a safer and more personal service for your pet.
  • We do not run as a big ‘doggy day care centre’ so enhancing the welfare of dogs in our care.
  • We offer a competitive, cost effective solution for your pet care requirements.
  • Each team is locally managed with a small team of local staff.
  • Each pet sitter is DBS checked.
  • Each pet sitter can provide references.
  • All our staff are very experience animal lovers.
  • Our local team managers are trained and qualified in Pet First Aid and Animal Behaviour & Handling. Most have extra animal related qualifications.
  • Our pet sitters hold a range of qualifications and experiences from being experienced pet owners, to dog trainers, groomers, vet nurses and undergraduate vet students.
  • We are fully insured.
For more information on our pet care services please see the services tab above. For more information on pet care services in your local area please use the box above or see our areas tab above.

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