Getting started guides
Everything to sort before you take your first paid booking as a dog walker or pet sitter in the UK: insurance, council rules, pricing, contracts, registering with HMRC and finding your first clients. New pet care businesses fail for predictable reasons — underpricing, no written agreement, and disorganised bookings — and each of those is fixed with one early decision. These guides walk you through the decisions in order, so you can go from “I like dogs” to a properly set up business in a weekend. If you read only one guide, start with how to become a dog walker, then follow the links into pricing, insurance and contracts as you need them.