Working document
The Dog Walking Incident Report Template
One page to fill in when a walk goes wrong, built so the record you write in the first hour still holds up months later.
Free resources
Resources for Professional Dog Walkers
Everything here is written for the person actually holding the leash at noon, not for a marketing department writing about pets.
The Midday Route is our magazine for working American dog walkers, and this page is the shortest path into it. You will find long form guides on stool scoring and potty notes, pavement temperature thresholds, leash and doorway failures, group versus solo economics, worker classification and what actually happens after a bite on a public sidewalk.
Alongside the writing there are two free calculators and a fill in incident report template you can keep in the glove box. Nothing here requires a LeashReport account. Use what helps, print what you need, and send us the questions we have not answered yet from your own route.
Free tools
Free Calculators for Dog Walkers and Small Pet Care Teams
Both calculators run in your browser, use realistic route numbers to start, and answer questions walkers argue about on every rate change.
Comparisons
How LeashReport Compares for Working Dog Walkers
LeashReport does one job, the walk report an owner opens at lunch, so the honest comparison is against tools that treat that report as one feature among many.
Main guide
A Midday Route in a Walk Up Neighborhood: Six Dogs, Three Hours
It settles how a professional midday route is actually built and run, stop by stop, from the first key to the last report sent.
Magazine
The Midday Route
Reporting on the working life of American dog walkers: leash craft, licensing, insurance, weather, and the money in a midday hour.
About
Who writes all of this
About the walker behind LeashReport: who writes The Midday Route, the routes and potty logs these guides come from, and how to reach us with a question from your own midday book.
Keep the guides, then look at the report
The field guides, the two calculators and the walk incident report template stay free and stay outside any account. When you are tired of retyping owner updates in a stairwell between stops, a short demo shows how the route line, the photo cards and the potty log get built for you and sent on their own. Bring one dog from your midday book and we will use that one.