Dog walking businesses face regulation in SF
Professional dog walkers in San Francisco would need to acquire permits, and possibly face limits on how many dogs they can walk at a time, under legislation being considered by the Board of Supervisors.
For years, city officials have been considering regulating the dog-walking industry, mainly because of concerns about people walking too many dogs and failing to adequately control or clean up after them, the San Francisco Examiner reports.
New regulations on the industry, proposed by Supervisor Scott Wiener, were heard yesterday by a committee of the Board of Supervisors.
The legislation calls for, among other things, limiting to seven the number of dogs that one dogwalker could walk at a time.
Some dog walkers say that would prohibit them from making a good living.
Under Wiener’s proposal, a permit would cost $250 for the first year and $100 a year after that. Violations of the law would result in fines of up to $500.
The full board of supervisors is expected to vote on the legislation as early as January.
The regulations would go into effect in October, 2012.
Posted by jwoestendiek December 13th, 2011 under Muttsblog.
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Comment from selkie
Time December 14, 2011 at 8:28 am
actually, I think there should be limits. I’ve been out with my own two dogs and seen “dog walkers” with 8 or more dogs. There is NO way they can either control that many dogs- but worse, the reality is, there is no “walk” for ANY of them… there is a pulling, pushing mess that must cause stress.