Six services, each with the scope it covers
A price on this page applies to the scope printed under it. Where a price begins with “from”, the final figure is confirmed after the settling visit and before the first collection.
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Solo neighbourhood walk
from $26
A thirty-minute walk for one dog on its own, collected from the door and returned to it, on a route chosen for the dog rather than for the walker's convenience. The walker leaves a short note afterwards saying where the dog went and how it was.
Suits a dog that prefers its own company, or one still learning to walk beside a road.
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Group trail walk
from $32
An hour on the trails outside Bend in a group of no more than four dogs, matched by size, pace and play style before the first walk is booked. Dogs stay on the lead beside roads and are let off only where the ground is enclosed and the recall has been seen to work.
Suits a sociable dog that has already met its group at a settling visit.
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Daycare half day
$38
Up to five hours in the daycare room, taken as a morning or an afternoon session, with a rest period in the middle. The room is staffed the whole time it is open and every dog has a bed or a crate it can take itself off to.
Suits a dog that would rather be in company than at home alone for part of the day.
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Daycare full day
from $42
Up to nine hours across a working day, including a midday walk, two rest periods and the same handler from arrival to collection. Food brought from home is fed at the times the owner writes down, and nothing else is given without asking.
Suits a longer working day, booked as a standing weekday place or one day at a time.
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Puppy drop-in visit
$22
A twenty-minute visit for a puppy too young for group work: a garden break, fresh water, a short handling session and a tidy-up of anything that needs it. It is a visit rather than a walk, and it ends when the puppy has had enough.
Suits a puppy under six months, or an older dog that can no longer manage a full walk.
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Meet-and-settle visit
no charge
A visit to the home to meet the dog, watch how it walks on a lead and how it answers a recall, followed by a plain statement of which service fits, what it would cost and whether it is worth doing at all. It carries no charge and ends without obligation.
Suits a first approach, including an undecided one.
How contacting the service works
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A question arrives
Sent through the contact form or by telephone. It needs the dog's age and size and the service being considered, and nothing else.
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The office replies
Thicket & Trail Dog Walking confirms which of the six services fits, or says plainly that none of them does.
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A settling visit is arranged
Arranged directly, with the price confirmed first. Nothing on this website confirms a place.
When a service may not be the right one
A dog that guards its food, one that is unreliable around other dogs, or one recovering from surgery can all make a published service the wrong choice. Thicket & Trail Dog Walking says so at the settling visit rather than on the first morning, and that visit carries no charge precisely so the conversation can happen first.
A question about a route, a group or a price
The contact form takes a question and sends it to the office. Book goes to the arrangements page; neither one confirms a place by itself.