I’ve had a look at the long range weather forecast and it looks like there’s at least a week of hot weather on the way, with temperatures predicted to hit 33C over the next few days. So, as always when we have an excessively hot spell, I just want to remind everyone of our policy regarding bookings in hot weather.
We always do our best to honour every booking, no matter what the time of year. However during excessively hot weather it’s often not safe for dogs to be walked. Some breeds suffer badly with the heat, including our old friend Dave in the photo above. So if your walker judges it to be too hot for walking on the day, then they will automatically change the booking to a home visit when they arrive. It will still show as a walk on your list of bookings, but when you receive the GPS tracking data afterwards, you’ll see that your pet didn’t actually go anywhere.
If we can find a shady path we will try to get your dog out for a short walk, normally to a nearby grassy patch. But we won’t walk for the full 30 or 60 minute booking.
We always put the welfare of the animals we look after first and we encourage all our clients to look at the tracking data in the e-mail received after each booking for more information about anything special that happened .
Stay cool!
Andy.