The evening text pile
Twelve owners want to know how it went, and they all ask between 7 and 9 PM. You answer each one from memory, and by the fourth reply you are guessing whether Baxter drank at the bowl.
About 5 unpaid hours a month
Walk reporting for US dog walkers
The walk report reaches the owner before you reach the next house
Tap Start when the leash clips on and LeashReport records the route, the photo cards and every potty stop while you walk. Tap Finish at the door and the owner has the whole thing by text and email, usually before you pull away from the curb.
- 1,180 walkers in 44 states
- 96,400 reports sent last month
- Live on your route in one afternoon
Report sent 12:41 PM
Maple loop, 1.4 miles, 2 photos, 1 pee, 1 poop, water at the porch.
What the day actually costs
You finished walking at 4. You finished working at 9.
Nobody starts a dog walking business to type. Yet the paperwork happens anyway, in the truck, at red lights, at the kitchen table with a cold dinner, and it is the part clients judge you on.
The visit nobody can prove
An owner is sure the Thursday midday was skipped. You know it happened. Without a timestamped trace you credit the visit back and hope the relationship survives the doubt.
$24 credited per disputePotty notes that never leave the sidewalk
Soft stool on Tuesday, nothing at all on Wednesday. The vet asks on Friday and the wrist pad went through the wash on Thursday night.
1 vet question you cannot answerCover walks that start blind
Your backup walker texts you from the porch about the lockbox code, the reactive neighbor dog and which door the harness hangs behind. You are three houses away with two leashes in one hand.
2 clients lost per season
From clip on to sent
Four taps on the sidewalk, one report at the door
The report is written while you walk, not after. By the time the harness is back on the hook there is nothing left to write up.
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Open the visit and clip in
The day's route is already on the phone with each dog, address, lockbox code and handling note. Tap Start and the GPS trace begins, along with the arrival time stamp the owner will see.
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Tag what happens, one thumb
Pee, poop, stool quality, water, treat, brushing burrs out of a coat: each one is a single big button, sized for gloves and a leash in the other hand. Photos land in the report with the time and the cross street attached.
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Close the door and tap Finish
Confirm the key went back in the box, the gate is latched and the water bowl is full. Add a sentence if the walk deserves one, then finish. Nothing else is required of the walker.
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The report sends itself
The owner gets a text and an email holding the map, the distance, the photo cards and the potty log. Median delivery is 38 seconds after Finish, and the link stays live for the length of your plan history.
What is in the app
Built for the six things a walk actually involves
No modules you will never open. Every screen here exists because a walker asked for it while standing on somebody's lawn.
Route trace on the block
The map shows the sidewalk you actually took, the distance covered and the pace, with pins at the start and the finish. Owners on a hill route can see why the mileage is short and the time is not.
One tap potty log
Pee, poop and stool quality are three buttons, not a form, and each entry carries its own time and place. Six weeks of logs export as a single page your client can hand to the vet.
Photo cards with context
Up to six photos per walk, each captioned with the minute it was taken and the nearest cross street. Owners get the muddy grin they want and the proof of presence you need in the same card.
Key, gate and alarm vault
Lockbox codes, alarm sequences, side gate quirks and the closet where the harness hangs live on the visit card, visible only to the walker assigned that day. A key return checkbox closes every visit that used one.
Pack, solo and cover assignment
Sort the day into pack walks and solo visits, then drag a stop to another walker when somebody wakes up sick. The new walker inherits the handling notes, the codes and the last three potty logs instantly.
Delivery owners do not download
Reports arrive as a text and an email with a private link, so no client is asked to install anything or remember a password. Your business name, colors and phone number sit at the top of every one.
What changes in the first season
Numbers our walkers report back, and the reason behind each one
These come from 1,180 subscribed walkers across 44 states, measured against their own first four weeks on the app.
Median time from Finish to the owner's phone
Because the map, the photos and the potty entries are assembled during the walk, the send is just a send. Nothing is retyped in the truck, so nothing waits for the end of the route.
Given back to every walker, every day
That is the average time a walker used to spend writing recaps for a ten visit day. Nine minutes a day is roughly 38 hours a year, which is a full week of walks you are no longer donating.
Of owners open the report within ten minutes
A text with a photo gets read at the desk in a way an evening email never does. Owners who read the report while the dog is still napping stop sending the how did it go message entirely.
A year of credited visits a four walker company keeps
Ninety disputed midday visits at $24 each is what a busy team was writing off before every walk carried a trace. When the map and the 12:41 timestamp are in the owner's inbox, the dispute usually ends there.
From people who walk for a living
Three owners, three routes, one less thing at 9 PM
We asked walking businesses in Texas, Wisconsin and Maine what actually changed after the first month.
I used to scribble potty notes on a wrist pad and copy them out at 9 PM with a beer going flat next to me. Now the report is gone before I unclip the next dog. Four of the clients I signed in March told me they picked us because a neighbor showed them the map from her own walk.
A client swore up and down we skipped a Thursday. I pulled the trace, the two photos and the 12:41 pee tag and sent all of it inside a minute. That argument used to cost me a refund and usually the client. My walkers also stopped blaming each other for notes nobody wrote.
Training a new walker took three ride alongs before this. Now she opens the visit and sees the gate code, the reactive dog two doors down and the last three potty logs, so her second day looks like my tenth. My phone stopped buzzing at dinner, which is honestly the part I would pay for.
96,400
walk reports delivered last month
31%
fewer owner check in texts after week four
44
states with walkers sending reports every weekday
Plans and prices
Priced per business, not per dog on the leash
Unlimited walks, unlimited clients and unlimited report delivery on every plan. A hundred visit week costs the same as a quiet one.
Every plan is billed monthly in US dollars and can be cancelled at any time from the account page. No setup fee, no per client charge, no annual contract, and your reports export with you if you leave.
Straight answers
What walkers ask us before they sign up
If your question is not here, write to us and a person who has walked a route will answer it.
Three plans, all monthly, all in US dollars: Solo Walker at $19, Small Team at $49 and Pet Company at $99. Every walk report, photo card and text delivery is included in that price, so a hundred visit week costs exactly what a slow one costs. There is no setup fee, no charge per client and no annual contract. If you outgrow a plan we move you up on the following invoice and nothing is backdated.
Most businesses send their first live reports the same afternoon they sign up. You upload your client list as a spreadsheet, we match dogs to owners and addresses, and each walker installs the app and signs in with a code. A four person team is usually switched over inside a week, because walkers learn the potty buttons on their first two visits and never open a manual. If you want company on the first morning route, we will sit on a call while it runs.
The routes, the photos and the potty entries belong to your business and nobody else. They are stored encrypted, kept for as long as your plan history allows, and are never sold, shared with advertisers or used to train anything. An owner can open only the reports for their own dog, through a private link that expires with your history window. If you close your account we export the whole archive to you and delete the originals within 30 days.
It does not have to. LeashReport covers the walk itself: the route, the photo cards, the potty log and the delivery to the owner. Teams running Time To Pet, Scout or a shared calendar keep booking and invoicing where they are and push each day's visits across by calendar link or CSV import. If you would rather run everything in one place, the Small Team and Pet Company plans carry route assignment and cover handoff of their own.
You can cancel from the account page in any month and the plan stops at the end of that billing period. There is no phone call to make, no notice period and no cancellation fee. Before your last day you can export every report as a PDF pack or a CSV file, so your client records stay in your hands. Plenty of seasonal walkers pause in January and come back in April to the same client list.
Yes. The phone records the GPS trace, the photos and every potty tap on the device itself, so a wooded park loop, a canyon road or a basement stairwell does not break the walk. As soon as the handset finds signal again the report uploads and sends itself, usually before the walker reaches the next driveway. Walkers in Minnesota tap those buttons through winter gloves, because the targets are deliberately large and there is nothing to type while you are on route.
The Midday Route
The magazine for the hour between houses
The Midday Route is written here, for the people who do this work: leash craft, licensing, insurance, pavement heat and the money in a midday hour. Three of the nine reports are below.
practical guide
How to Read and Log a Dog's Bathroom Break on Every Walk
A stool that looks fine to you can be the first thing a vet asks about. Here is how to score what you see, what to photograph, and how to write the note an owner can act on.
comparison
Group Walks or Solo Walks: Rates, Liability, and City Rules
Six dogs at once looks like six times the money until a permit, an insurance rider, or one failed clip changes the math. A side by side look at how each model really pays.
mistakes to avoid
Door, Leash, and Gear Mistakes That Let a Client's Dog Loose
Almost every loose dog story starts at a doorway, a worn snap, or a collar one finger too big. These are the handling errors that end careers, and the habits that prevent them.
Talk to us
Show us one route and we will show you the report it produces
Tell us how many walkers you run and what your midday block looks like. We will walk one of your real routes on screen with you, from the clip on to the message the owner receives, and you can decide from there.
- A 20 minute call, screen shared, no slide deck
- We import a sample of your client list before we meet
- You keep the sample reports whether you subscribe or not
- Answers on pricing and history windows in plain language
Request a walk report demo
A person reads every message, usually the same business day and always within one working day. If email is quicker for you, write straight to jimenezjulien42@gmail.com.
Written and maintained by Jimenez Julien. He builds LeashReport at MLJ, SASU, answers the support email himself and rides along on real routes twice a year to keep the app honest. Read more about the author.