This is the author’s own story of her journey into setting up a dog-walking agency and the dogs and people she met along the way. I enjoyed this so much; it’s such a joyful, fun and charming read. From the very beginning I knew I would love this and as I read on I warmed to Kate and Finlay more and more.
Kate starts up her business from scratch, being interviewed by dog owners who want to know if she is up to the job, their dogs are after all part of the family. The rules and requirements the owners set out of how their dogs should be looked after were very amusing, some were always going to end in disaster and stretched the dog-walking job description to more of a PA! I liked that the dog owners were from all ‘walks’ of life, and were very different characters, I also enjoyed the encounters of Kate meeting with her dog-walking competition in the park, and the dog-trainer who was very passionate about his work. In such small spaces of time the author really captures the personality of each of the dog owners, and we can build a picture of them and their very different, and individual traits.
This book has many funny moments which made me laugh out loud, and some more serious ones with Kate’s chats with her mother who really wants her to get on with things and become a ‘real grown-up’, with a proper job and provide her with something to talk to her friends about, in the form of grandchildren or an enviable career. Kate was always striving to achieve something, and I liked that when she did she had the good grace to accept that her patch was big enough for more than one dog-walking business.
I don’t have any pets, but, so much enjoyed spending the bank holiday weekend with all of these dogs! I enjoyed the style of the book broken into chapters, dog by dog, with a little description of the dog and a tally of the number of dogs now on the books, the format is very engaging. This is a really delightful, humorous and entertaining book.
Kate starts up her business from scratch, being interviewed by dog owners who want to know if she is up to the job, their dogs are after all part of the family. The rules and requirements the owners set out of how their dogs should be looked after were very amusing, some were always going to end in disaster and stretched the dog-walking job description to more of a PA! I liked that the dog owners were from all ‘walks’ of life, and were very different characters, I also enjoyed the encounters of Kate meeting with her dog-walking competition in the park, and the dog-trainer who was very passionate about his work. In such small spaces of time the author really captures the personality of each of the dog owners, and we can build a picture of them and their very different, and individual traits.
This book has many funny moments which made me laugh out loud, and some more serious ones with Kate’s chats with her mother who really wants her to get on with things and become a ‘real grown-up’, with a proper job and provide her with something to talk to her friends about, in the form of grandchildren or an enviable career. Kate was always striving to achieve something, and I liked that when she did she had the good grace to accept that her patch was big enough for more than one dog-walking business.
I don’t have any pets, but, so much enjoyed spending the bank holiday weekend with all of these dogs! I enjoyed the style of the book broken into chapters, dog by dog, with a little description of the dog and a tally of the number of dogs now on the books, the format is very engaging. This is a really delightful, humorous and entertaining book.