Hi, I’m Steve, the owner of Packwalk.co.uk. I was 30 years in the Police and spent 10.5 happy years as a Dog handler, working my German Shepherd Dog Max and my Explosives Detection Dog Springer Spaniel Bracken, on the streets of the West Midlands.

On leaving the Dog Section, I ran on Puppies for the Police to keep my hand in and before retiring from the service, I set up Lookafteryourdog Home Dog Boarding Service. Dog Boarding was a logical extension and soon I was recruiting others to grow the business.

I owned and ran a Doggy daycare where I looked after up to 12 dogs a day in a secure environment, while the owners were at work. I learned a lot about dog behaviour and pack dynamics during this time.

The daycare had to close due to the Pandemic and so I decided to focus on running the dog boarding business and creating a new business where I could use my knowledge and skills to create Packwalks for dogs.

Packwalk has all the best parts of doggy daycare, the dogs coming together with regular buddies that they can let off steam with in a doggy way, wrestling and chasing, the enclosed environment, the supervision, but it doesn’t drag on too long so that the dogs get bored as many do at doggy daycare.

An hour of fun and play leaves them tired but wanting more and so you don’t see the dogs mopping around looking for their owners to come get them.