What Your Dog Walker Needs to Know

A dog walker needs enough to keep your dog safe and almost certainly less than your whole household record. Good sharing is per dog and per area: this dog, these sections, revocable. Anything coarser means you either overshare or brief them by text message every time something changes.

Two things have to be true for any of this to reach you: you use a walker or sitter, and that walker runs their business on CorePaw Pro. If you walk your own dog, none of it appears — it is gated on data, not on a build.

What they actually need

• How the dog should be handled — off the lead or not, recall, dogs they must not be walked with.
• Allergies, particularly around treats.
• Medications, if a dose might fall during their time.
• Vet practice and phone, for the worst case.
• Microchip number, for the other worst case.
• Anything currently being watched — a limp, a sore paw, a lump.

What they generally do not need is your insurance policy, your full document vault, or your other dog's records.

How CorePaw structures it

You accept a walker's invite or web link and choose, per dog, exactly what they may see: profile, feeding, medications, health, symptoms, measurements, documents, photos — and whether they may log care or doses. A dog you did not share stays private, even from a walker who walks your other one. You can revoke at any time.

Adding a second dog later does not need a fresh code, and permissions are asked again for the new animal rather than inherited — so sharing one dog never quietly becomes sharing the household. Pets you have already shared are marked, and the screen says what re-ticking one would do.

Your answer is the permission

Handling instructions are recorded as facts about the dog rather than as messages to one walker. Where a walker has written down their own recollection of what they were told, yours is shown first, and theirs appears underneath only when the two disagree. That ordering is deliberate: it is your dog.

What comes back

Their walk lands in your dog's history like any other, with the route map, a diary of what happened — wee, poo, play, treat, a photo — and "Logged by". You get live pickup and drop-off alerts, sent as they happen rather than queued, because a reassurance that arrives an hour late is not a reassurance.

You can also request a walk from their price list with a note, and see whether it was accepted, declined or moved to a different time you can accept in one tap; cancel your own booking, with their notice period and any late-cancellation fee shown before you confirm; and message them in a conversation per walker, with photos, in the same app the dog lives in.

What it costs you

Nothing. The owner side is free forever and is not part of Premium — the walker is the paying customer. An owner who cannot answer "can I move Thursday?" costs their walker the booking, which is why it was never sensible to put this behind a wall.

More detail on how walker sharing works, and the walker's own side lives at CorePaw Pro.

See also: what a pet sitter needs to know.