How to start dog walking?
I'm a 14 year old girl, I have 2 male poodles, one 12 and one 4 years old. I'm a 100% dog lover, in need of money. I really want to save up and buy my own things instead of having to ask my parents, when they don't have the money and bills are their main priority. My mom told me she'd pay me $60 a month to be a… Fitness trainer for her, motivating her and getting her to actually lose weight. My goal is to buy a Nikon D3100 which is (at Best Buy now) $549.99 which is pricey.It'd take me about 10 months to save that money. I thought that if I started walking dogs I could earn that money faster. I could walk the dog after school along with my mom, so I would have parental supervision and I'd sort of be killing two birds with one stone. What I want to know, is how much I should charge. $5 per day for 15-30 minutes? That's what I was thinking. I'd also like to know, would you let a 14 year old walk your dog? Oh, and how should I put myself out there?
As a price, $5 for 15 - 30 minute walks is good. I'm not sure if you mean this price per dog or per customer, but I would recommend it as per dog. Personally, I'd allow a 14 year old to walk my dog, especially they had parental supervision, as you will have with you mom. When I was 13, I did dog walking myself, and no one had nay problem with it at all, so I would totally go for it. I'd recommend using flyers, the type you can rip the phone numbers off the bottom of, and putting them up in places where people will check noticeboards a lot. You could also hand some out to friends of yours with dogs and maybe asking them to pass them on.
Great choice in cameras