Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01842 · Session 5

Regulate the professional dog walking industry

Closed Submitted 9 Nov 2020 People & Communities
Signatures
0
92 online signatures with a country
Comments
5
Considered
2 meetings
in the Official Report

What it asks

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to regulate and licence the professional dog walking industry.

What the petitioner did first

I met with Christina McKelvie MSP and wrote to Roseanna Cunningham Environment Secretary's office.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 13 Jan 2021
    Public Petitions Committee
    New Petitions
    1 mention
  2. 10 Mar 2021
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention

Signatures by country

92 online signatures
  1. Scotland80 87%
  2. United Kingdom11 12%
  3. England1 1.1%

Comments

5 comments, oldest first
  1. Moira Munro 13 Nov 2020
    My first thought was that it's up to owners to check out the dog walker's standards. But the dog walker can lie about their maximum dog numbers, and it would be quite hard for an owner to check, short of taking time off work and trailing the dog walker.
  2. Sandra Thomson 21 Nov 2020
    No unlimited number of dogs on a walk can be dangerous.
    Your dog would be receiving more attention in a smaller group.
  3. Cheryl Gardiner 28 Nov 2020
    Any more than 3 or 4 dogs is far too much for anyone to look after. I am a dog walker I mainly do solo walks and feel myself and the dog that I am walking at the time enjoys it a lot better as it's one to one, they have all my attention.
  4. Marian Pairman 29 Nov 2020
    All dog walkers should only be allowed to walk no more than 2 dogs at a time and if in local parks etc keep dogs on a lead.
  5. LYDIA REID 9 Dec 2020
    If a walker has too many dogs they run the risk of the dogs being out of control.