Venice Dog Walkers

We offer services for:

• Dogs
• Cats

About My Business

Welcome to Venice Dog Walkers! We are honored to be able to care for your trusted friend and hope to add joy to their day. We want you to think of us as your long-term pet partner. Venice Dog Walkers offers you peace of mind while you and your pet are apart, and we treat them like our own family. As lifelong dog owners, we have seen the benefits of regular activity on our dogs. Professional dog trainers advise that 30 minutes of exercise a day is vital to keep a pup’s mind and body optimally functioning. Our goal here at Venice Dog Walkers is to make your pup happy as well as contribute to their long, healthy life.

Venice Dog Walkers is a professional, insured and bonded dog sitting and dog walking service. Our walkers/sitters are thoroughly background-checked for your security. We are pet CPR and First Aid certified and regularly take continuing education courses. While there may be other affordable options in pet care such as asking a teenager or using a kennel, we feel that most owners want the best loving care for their pet family when they are apart.

My name is Kathy Stankard and I started Venice Dog Walkers after leaving two decades in the (Massachusetts and Florida) real estate industry. The company was founded in 2019 after my husband Mark and I noticed a lack of quality dog walkers and dog sitters in the Venice, Florida area. We, along with our neighbors and friends, had always been scrambling to find quality, loving dog care; some of us shared horror stories of our dog’s neglect with unqualified dog sitters.

My husband, our Golden Doodle Marley, and I are now living closer to my parents in Venice. As we continue to enjoy the beautiful Gulf Coast area, I realized that combining my love of dogs and an active lifestyle was the perfect career choice!

A good friend once told me, “You didn’t move to the Gulf Coast of Florida to be stressed. You need a joyful existence.” It turns out that Venice Dog Walkers is my joyful existence; spending time with your pups! In my free time, I enjoy reading, hiking, biking, running, kayaking and getting together with friends.