PHG Southampton

Pet Sitting in and around Southampton

Welcome to Pets Homes & Gardens run by Ritchie Clarke

As an experienced animal owner, I understand the potential concerns and difficulties you face when you have to leave your much loved pets behind when away from home. Whether it’s a holiday, business trip, sudden emergency or simply a night off, you want to know your pets are:

• Safe
• Well cared for so they’re happy & content
• In the care of someone you can trust, thus giving you complete peace of mind

Dog Walking

Dogs, regardless of age or size, require regular exercise to maintain their health and their ‘joie de vivre.’ Their natural energy needs to be expressed through stimulating outdoor activity; otherwise, it can lead to boredom, and sometimes this leads to behavioural issues.

So, for whatever reason, if you are away at work or finding it challenging to manage the daily dog walks, we are more than happy for you to use our services either on an ad-hoc or regular basis. Ritchie is able to offer one-to-one dog walks, either following their exact walking routine or by providing an exciting change of location – he appreciates that no two dogs are the same.

On his one-to-one walks, he always walks all dogs on a lead for safety reasons, unless you have given us consent and are happy for them to be walked off-lead.

Ritchie also offers off-lead group walks in a fully secured field, which they have exclusively to themselves. In terms of transporting your dog to and from the field, Ritchie will collect them from your home address and safely drive them to the field in a well-maintained, fully ventilated van. After the walk, he will, of course, return them safely to your home address, at which time they should be nice and tired from all that running around and playing. His van has six large dog crates secured in the vehicle, two flettner fans and an electric fan to ensure maximum comfort and safety throughout the year.

For both individual and group walks, Ritchie will send you a daily update to assure you everything has gone smoothly, complemented by cute photos captured of your dog enjoying their walk.