Puppy visits in Liverpool

Why puppies need visits, not walks

A young puppy cannot hold on for eight hours and should not be asked to. They also should not be doing long walks — too much exercise on developing joints causes problems you do not see until years later.

What they need is somebody turning up regularly. Out to the garden, a bit of food, a bit of company, some calm handling by a person who is not you, and then left to sleep again.

That is what a puppy visit is. It is not a walk with a smaller dog on the end of it.

What happens in a visit

Out to the toilet

First thing, every time. The single most useful thing anyone can do for a puppy’s house training is get them outside often enough.

Feeding

Their food, their amount, their times. Puppies eat more often than adult dogs and the timing matters.

Company and handling

Ten minutes of somebody being calm and normal around them. Being picked up, having paws touched, being talked to. Puppies who only ever meet their own family become adults who find everybody else alarming.

A short bit of play

Enough to take the edge off, not enough to wind them up before they are left again.

Settling them back down

I do not leave a puppy mid-zoomies. They go back to their crate or their bed calm, which is how they learn that people leaving is unremarkable.

A message and a photo

Including the honest version — whether there was a puddle, whether they ate, whether they settled.

What it costs

Service	Price
Puppy visit	From £17

Bank holidays are charged at double. Free consultation, and no key charge if you hand keys over on the day.

I confirm the exact price at your free consultation. See all prices, including what changes the price and the bank holiday rules.

How often, and for how long

Most people book one or two visits a day across a working week, and it usually runs for two or three months.

Then the puppy grows up, and what they need becomes a proper walk. Plenty of my long-standing dog walking customers started as puppy visits.