Dog Walking Singapore

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Introduction

My name is Sean Lim and I have been a Professional dog walker, with a background as a Certified trained K9 Handler (Singapore Armed Forces, K9 Handler, 2012/13) During this period, I have obtained experience as a dog walker & trainer and am now in my 10th year of doing this.

Along with a small team of highly qualified and trained individuals, from full-time volunteers at SPCA and ACRES to veterinary science graduates, we provide dog walking, dog sitting and dog training to those who need it. We are extremely proficient at:

Basic Dog handling
Dog walking & sitting
Obedience training, Behavioural modification and Attack work training
Grooming (Bathing, nail clipping, Fur maintenance)
Treatment and management of common dog ailments (Ear infection treatment with Surolan, Frontline de-ticking, Eczema treatment)

Links to Testimonials and gallery

Motto

“Kindness, Firmness, Patience” is our motto. I truly enjoy working and playing with dogs of all breeds and sizes and I have extremely high standards of care for those under my care. We treat all pets under our care with patience and care, yet maintaining the necessary leadership and firmness to ensure their safety of dogs under our charge. I believe that with patience and the right knowledge, all dogs can be rehabilitated. I love the look on faces of my clients when they achieve breakthroughs with their dogs, when they see a formerly aggressive or insecure dog becoming friendly and calm in the face of strangers or friends.

Each walk should cultivate better habits in your dog and allow for better, more relaxed walks, thereby helping to build a platform on which owners and their pets can have a regular opportunity to spend time and nurture a deeper bond. That’s my whole goal: to help facilitate and establish a healthy relationship between owners and their dogs.

Experience & Dogs handled

I’ve had multiple dog walking clients, from Grange Road and River Valley Road, to even Sentosa Cove and Marina Bay Sands. I have been privileged to work with many talented dogs, from sniffer dogs such as Golden Retrivers and English Springer Spaniels, to attack dogs such as German Shepherds and Belgium Shepherds.

Contact me

Before each dog walking client is confirmed, I will have to do a consultation to determine suitability of dog for my services. (consult is free) You can reach me through text/call at:

Please include the following details in your enquiry:

Name
Dog Training or Dog Walking
Breed, age and name of dog
Address or location
Exact start date, number of sessions a week & time slots you’re looking at

Alternatively, use the form provided at the bottom:)

My rates for dog walking are:

Update: Unfortunately, walking slots with Sean are limited. Feel free to contact us for other vetted and qualified walkers!

As of 01/05/2022:

$80-125 – 45 mins session (+$20 for weekends and public holidays)

$80-135 – 1 session + dog bathing and basic grooming

My rates for dog sitting are:

$90-$125 – 2 sessions per day

$95-$140 – 3 sessions per day

There will be 3, hour long, visits a day (morning, afternoon and evening). During which we will feed, walk for pee/poop & exercise, groom and play. Baths will be complementary should engagement be more than a week. Additional charge of $70 for overnight stay

My rates for dog training/behavioural modification

Update 16/03/2014: Unfortunately, all training slots with Sean are fully booked till end May.

$110-180 per session (+$20 for weekends)

Trainings are conducted either in 6-sessions or 8-sessions, depending on factors such as severity of misdemeanour.

Payment is prepaid every week/every month (Cash/cheque/bank transfer) Price varies based on location. The more accessible the location, the lower we can offer. Contact me for monthly package (offered to long term clients only)

Feel free to let me know if your dog has any pre-existing conditions or illnesses and if you’d like me to help out/advice. For my very own dog training advice, How do you train your dog effectively, Testimonials or stomach bloating and other Common health issues, feel free to click on the relevant links.

Interested in being a dog walker? We are always open to welcoming fresh, experienced and professional new faces to the team so please feel free to apply through the following link. Dog walker/trainer openings

Contact Form

Why hire a Certified personal trainer/walker?

For dog walking, often times people feel it’s fine hiring amateur dog walkers who may/may not know any knowledge about dog walking. This results, many times, in them providing inadequate care, from being unable to handle the dog with medical conditions, being unable to recognise common symptoms of lethal conditions (e.g. Stomach Bloating), to spoiling the dog on the walk/in the house. There have been reports of a certain company hiring untrained walkers, paying them $900/month, resulting in inexperienced and unmotivated care. They spoil the dogs through improper handling, sometimes letting the dog lead the walk and other times with leashes pulled too tightly.

Without proper discipline, what happens is not only does the dog gradually become unruly on walks, it deteriorates the relationship with the owner and the dogs. As I mention in my training methodology, every healthy relationship requires structure and dogs require strong leadership. Without structure, this gives space to behavioural problems to develop. This may not seem to be a problem when the dogs are puppies but as they grow, they problems can and will escalate till a day when abuse and abandonment happens, as I’ve observed in my years volunteering at shelters.

For dog training, most clients come to me because they want personal attention to their problems. They see conflicting schools of thought on the internet/tv and wonder which is the right one. Corporate dog training schools are great for learning new tricks quickly but when it comes to implementing the tricks, dealing with specific behavioural problems or having the owners discipline the dogs, sometimes such skills are not imparted, causing months of training to quickly become unravelled. Owners are often given are quick superficial tricks for their pets to perform. What they are not given are lifelong skills to deal with the root of their dogs behavioural problems, which can and will manifest in a host of ways, from item possession to food aggression , if left untreated.

I provide a safe environment for my clients to share their problems with me and work closely with them to come up with custom solutions and teaching them the proper techniques to deal with the root of the problems for long-term effectiveness.