My clients range from anxious small dogs who get special socializing, to huge and reactive ones who aren't easy to walk. Try me if you want a fairly tall and fit guy who can handle it all. I take some challenging requests other sitters won't. Your pet will get attention like mine do. In 2010 I started volunteering to walk dogs at the SF City shelter, and adopted my chihuahua Diamond. She's now a veteran for bike rides in my backpack and is probably more well known than I am in local cycling groups. In 2020 I saw my dog Comet in an ad which I think was a "last chance" for a shelter dog who wasn't being adopted because of anxiety and defensive biting. With patience, I socialized him to be happy and calm and you can see him smiling in my profile pic. My third is Avery, a yorkie-chihuahua. He was a walking client and his owner asked if I knew any place to rehome him... I said no way is he going to a stranger, and now he lives with me. This is a job for love more than money. I have a regular career of running my own business for 20 years: internet seller, bicycle instructor, animation artist and writer. I wrote a news story in Bay Woof magazine about drawing pet portraits. I love doing all this on flexible hours for you and your pet. I am pretty busy but flexible! If you have a need apart from what my calendar says, reach out and I might be able to arrange it. New relationships for regular walking are especially good to start.